The Placer herald., 1867-05-18
To the Anti Coolie Men of California.

An adjourned meeting of the Anti Cooi
State Convention was held in Minerva Hal
on Saturday, the 11th, inst, and was callet
to order by Col. Thomas Gray, President o
the Pacific Anti-Cooe Central Council, anc
on motion, Mr. F. r. J. Dixon was elected
President, Col. Gray Vice President, and
Thomas Callan Secretary. Butte, Lake and
Placer Counties were represented respect.
lively by Messrs. Justus Brooks. f. r. J
Dixon and G. w. McCrelis, and five dele
gates from each of the fourteen Districts Of
the city and county of San Francisco.
After preliminary business, the following
resolutions were unanimously adopted:
FELLOW C1rlzENs:-A crisis has arrived
in the affairs of our State aud Nation which
imperatively demands the earnest attention
and united action of all classes Of the com
munity, irrespective Of former political diff
ferences and present political prejudices.
WHEREAS, Without any precedent, either
in the Constitution of the United States or
that of California, unsupported by any pro
vision in the treaty of 1853, between the
United States and China, and in direct con-
flict with the laws relative to the introduce
ton of Coolie labor into the United States,
passed by Congress in 1862, certain foreign
ers and native citizens are filing all the ave-
nues of labor throughout the State with Chi,
nese, under a system of peonage or slavery
which will drive from our shores free white
working population and destroy the future
greatness and prosperity of our State; and
WHEREAS, Public sentiment having been
aroused, and various associations organized
for the purpose ofprac,ically adopting every
legitimate and constitutional means for
averting the dreful calamities which the in.
flux of millions of semi barbaric race so
immnenty threaten-pot alone California,
but also all the Western States Of the Union
and which action has been met by those,
who from selfish and sordid motives are its
patrons and defenders, with unrelenting and
bitter opposition and the adoption of every
arlifice to neutralize and render abortive the
honest oxertions of the men of California TO
reserve their birthright as American citizens,
even daring to excite the well known loyalty
and patriotism Of our citizens to compel
them to vote against the present and future
interests of their State, their children and
themselves we, the delegates Of the various
Ant-Coolie Associations in California, hav'
ing assembled in Convention in the City oi
San Francisco, for the purpose of agreeing
on some general plan Of action for success
fully graphing with this momentous ques
ton, are OF opinan that in view ofthe effects
of Coolis labor as already felt by throwing
out Of employment, aud'even already driving
from our Shores many useful and Industrious
citizens, by checking desirable immigration,
and impeding our progress in prosperity and
civilization; and in the full belief that the
continuation Of Cooie immigration to an
unlimited extent will fill our land with pow
erty and degradation, and lead to anarchy
and bloodshed-to fight for the extermipa'
ton of races-a civil war horrible to con-
template and attended with every conceivable
evil: we believe the time has now arrived
when it becomes necessary for the people ol