The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-11-10
Chimes EYodpa.


Chinese Exodu,.
Soon after the Democratic victory in Cali
fornia in September last, we had the pleasure
Of announcing the departure from our shores
of some seven hundred Chinese in a single
steamer returning to their native land. This
gratifying information, however, IS outstripped
an hundred fold by the result following the
Judicial election in October. San Francis
co dispatch of November Sd, centAins the i'm
Portant information that fifteen hundred Chi
nese were booked for the Honk1ng steamer,
which sailed on the 4th instant The result
of the Judicial election in California was
looked for with much interest by those peo-
The courts Of that State WAS inyulsezi Il will
be remembered that the statutesof California
deny to Chinese the right to testify in the
courts In all cases where white man is a
party. The tendency of Radical decisions of
late has been to hold that provision of the
statute 10 be in conflict with the Fourteenth
Amendment, which embodies the Civil Rights
Bill, while Democratic judges have, in every
case decided by them, recorded their judS-
ments IN support of the validity of the State
statute and against the dangerous dogma that
II had been superseded and annulied by Fed
eral law. The fact that this issue was pre-
sented in the Judicial election, with he Repub-
ican Judiciary favoring Chinese testimony and
the Democratic Judiciary against it, was the
chief instrument which enabled the Democ-
racy to make u clean sweep of every judicial
district IN the State and to elect their Supreme
Judges by triumphant majorities; and this
large exodus of Chinese is the first fruits of
the great victory. If the State had gone Re
publican in September and October, and the
Chinese emigration advocates had secured
control of the legislative and judicial branch
Of the State government, We would not now
be called upon to perform the pleasing task of
chronicling the departure of large numbers Of
that people from our shores. Nothing but
the resolute and determined opposition to
their further increase in that State, as shown
IN large Democratic majonties, has saved the
people from an inundation of cheap and de-
grading laborers. But the fat has gone forth.
and the judgment of the people, who are the
only nghtful owners Of the country and heirs
to the privileges and benefits of civil and re-
hgious liberty as enjoyed in this country, has
been recorded against an extension Of those
rights to embrace all members Of the human
family. Thepeople OF California have said, in
a voice the tones of which there is no mistak-
ing, that they are not willing TO invite the
swarthy children of the Orient to come among
them and partake, without money and with
ont price on terms Of equality, Of the superior
advantages Of our country and our civilization.
The people Of that State have not yet been
educated up TO the doctrines of universal
brotherhood, and have not yet resolved them
selves into general missionary society for
the elevation and amelioration of all the races
OF man. The African, it is true, through the
logic of events and the passions of war, has
bee1 lifted from the lower deeps of social de-
graduation and mental imbecility TO a plane of
absolute equality so far as national authority
could accomplish that result; but while the
nation fondly takes the ebony brother to its
warm embrace. we of the Pacific coast are not
yet fully prepared to open our arms to the
stranger from the far East and to divide with
him the inheritance ofOur fathers. The black
brother although at the bottom of the scale
of beings wearing the sembiance of man, yet
enjoys the advantages of our language and
religion, and having worn with patience and
humility the badge of q servile raoe forcenturies
as component part of the national organism,
may have justly earned his freedom
and admission to the national privileges Of the
superior race; buenot SO With the Asiatic; he
has no Claims whatever upon us as nation or
as individuals. We are under no sort of obi.
CATION TO him, and trust we may never be.
Our prayer, therefore, is that they may de-
part in peace from our midst and return no
move. ..... ........
A speck OF War.
Hon. Geo. G.. Berry called on us Monday,