The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-02-25
WORKING FOR cH1HEsE SUFFRAGE

WORKING FOR CHINEsE SUFFRAGE
A late San Francisco telegram says
A number Of boys made an attack upon
Chinese vash-house on Mission street, 1ea
Fourth, at Eve o'clock this evening, broke al
the windows and beat the inmates. Office
Suple attempted to arrest the ringleader. whel
he was knocked down, kicked and beat severe
", while q number Of men aided the boys t
escape. Two thousand people collected, ant
general riot appeared imminent, when tn,
Chief Of Police arrived with eighty officer
and cleared the streets.
The States lying North of Mason and
Dixon's line constituted the only power
on earth that protected the slaveholding
States in their peculiar institution. The
emancipation of The negroes is simply q
legitimate sequence Of the attempted IN
dependence of the Southern States
and their erection of q coufeder.
acy of their own. After their armed
rebellion was subjugated they, aided by
Andrew johnson and tho copperheads
of the North, attempted the virtual reen-
s,ayemens ofthe blacks. Then followed,
a. inevitable, the various laws and
amendments which have given the late
slave all the rights and attributes Of full
citizenship. First came emancipation
as an Offset to rebellion. This Was fol-
lowed BY the abolition of slavery BY Con
stitutional Amendment. Then it was
found necessary to give the freedman
the power of self protection-the ballot.
Thus do oppression, open defiance of
rightful authority, and the fragrant dis
regard of the principles of common just.
ice, compel the establishment of their
ansidetes-so tospeak. Brutality toward
the Chinese Who are amongst us has
compelled the enactment ola supplement
al Civil Rights act in their behalf. Still
does their persecution continue At the
hands of intolerant. ignorant, tyrannical
white men-mostly Irish, of the lower
order. These assaults will, if persisted
in, not drive tho Chinese from the
not deprive them of employ
ment on farms, in the work shops and
factories and on railroads will not stop
taeir immigration will not lessen the
value oftheir rights; but, on the contrary |
il will necessitats such guards as will
protect them in their right to work will
cause the Chinese Treaty which sanctions
free and unlimited INSTRUMENTATION
between the two countries to be fortified
by special statute, and will augment
taeir privileges in the markets and the
rour,s and if persisted in, will justify
he amendment of the naturalization
avs so far as to admit of their being
made citizens and voters. The Demo-
ratio party processes holy horror of
1e very thought of Chinese suffrage !;
rst Democrats alone are guilty of the
.ouduct toward Cinnamon which will
ssd, if anything does, to their being
crested with the right to vote as q ,
MEASURE of self protection. 1t 10 time {
he copperheads learned the lesson which =
10 legislation of the past eight years
A. taught-shat whatsoever of organized
.xlessness and injustice is practiced 10 /;
ae United States is sure to bring upon
self and its perpetrators . correspond
1g measure of just retribution. II
'hinamen can pursue their avocations b
nd be insured their rights as men and
aborers without the ballot We shall not
ak their enfranchisement but if they
-e to be continued as a mark for the
5use of every drunken bully who finds h
,stihcation for his cowardly assaults q
l the still more cowardly vaporings of
,e copperhead press and stump, speed
,e day, say We, when citizen of Chi. I
.se birth shall be endowed with as 2
.uch power Of self protection as the
citizen of European parent /;
.e or the citizen of native birth. q
ANOTHER DUKE OF BuNGHoLE--When c
Ill our snobs learn that every whiskerado