Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-30
THE FACTS OF THE CASE.

in grading a side track for the Virginia
and Truckee Railroad in the neishbor-
hood OF the american rninr. on Anerl-
can Flat. Were Yesterday driven from
their wosk by persons from this city and
Gold Hill. \ paper in this city, last
evening, gave an account of the affair,
which contains two or three errors so
grave that ii is necessary that they be
corrected. 1t is stated that the Chinese
were driven away by a preconCerted az
raDgemen; OF The Miners Union. and 10y
members nf that body. because the com
pac: originally entered into between the
Union and NJ Sharon bad been broken
bvthe agent OF Mr. Sharon. Neither state
ment is correct. We find in our files Of
1862. in the paper published ON the 9Th
day ot October; OF that year. the follow
ing:
,arat,ca. p. ofA> Gia.rs' ;'sa..- Won vii "e
assured 81 this that ! have IoE iitrntsd -
place chinese iAbOrtrs IN the mine. Ur L.4.t>,
an. that ll.y shall not be worked on the rail
road LcEtn If the American hnisti,1S WORKS.
WILLIAM SHARON.
Virgins. 0ctober6.
And below is the following:
agree t. TIE above propositions. ana We EUs.aa.
te, that the Chinese shall not be nulested
while working south Of the poin; designated
ESCve- JAMES PHEIAN.
JAMES DOCKERY.
Virginia Miners Uainc.
THOMAS ATSI&StS,
JANIS BREW.
Gold u.D Miners UE:.n.
Both parties to this agreement have
ever since sc-upulously kept the cove
n,nt thers entered into. Tbs Railroad
Company. day before yesterday. com
mcnced !. side track which Is to be seven
thousand FIVE hundred feet, almost a mile
and half in lepgIh-a volk which VIII
cost probably fifty thousand dollars. A;
the lower end Of the grade, aud a good
way south O. the American hulstlnS
worSs. they put some thirty or forty
Chinese to grading. These heatnens
had been a long time in the employ OF
the company; they understood then
work. and there was not u house II the
vicinity which they could occupy. while
there were accommodations near tor
white neu. They were all the Chinese
the company intended TO employ AT
this end of the work the company pu:
some sI1ty-five white laborers, and were
making room for more as fast as possible.
The Chinese We're driven away. This is
all there is to the matter, and the pubic
can Judge for themselves of the facts
Enterprise.
According to this showing there was
partial REIMBURSEMENT of their real and
assumed rights by Mr.. Sharon. acting
for the V. 4 7. Railway Company. and
Phelan, Dockery, Atkinson and Brew
acting for the Virginia City and Gold
Hill Miners Union. 1t was a compro-
mise, and, so far as it affected the prin-
cipals, was their own affair. If the '. L
I. people are willing to thus make terms
which are an actual waiver of their legal
rights they are not inconsistent IN living
up to them. But it is a not pleasant
thing to admit that the kind of lawless-
ness shown by the assailants Of these
Chinese employees must be submitted TO,
unauestioned The law is a coward when
it permits the punishment of one lnfrac-
ton of its own authority and is powerless
even to rebuke another sort. We lind II
difficult to distinguish between the Grim
inality of the hungry footpad who makes
the traveller yield up his purse at the
muzzle of a pistol. and the mob which
makes an individual or a corporation re-
linGuish its right to select its own work
men.