Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-08-19
HAMBURG AND TROUT CREEK.

The remedy for public wrong never
can be found in the commission Of pri-
vate wrongs, We huve always deprecat-
ed holding out any encouragement: to
Chinese immigration, believing that it
could produce no results except such as
would be fatal TO the interests Of labor,
wherever the Asiatic came into compe-
tition with the Caucasian. But the rem
edy for this assumed evil did not lie in
the commission of acts of violence which
place the Chinese in the character of a
prosecuted people, and thereby ALLEVIATE
from us the sympathies of every lover of
law and order. And the same may be
said of the condition of affairs in some
of the Southern States at the present day.
If any State is suffering from misrule in
consequence of enfranchised ignorance,
the remedy does not lie in resort TO
mob law and assassination. The cases
of the Ham burg massacre in South Car
olina, and the assassination of Chinese
in this State are in some respects identi-
cal, presuming the facts in both cases as
at present known, to be the actual truth.
We sincerely hope for the good name of
our State, that the current reports in re-
gard to the Trout Creek affair will prove
TO be without foundation, but at the pres
ent writing the outlook is dark ONE
The facts of the affair Mt Trout Creek are
these. Some two months ago a Chinese
cabin was set on FIRE, and as the inmates
ran out to escape the flames they were
shot by concealed parties. Until recent
ly it was believed that the murderers
were Chinese of rival company. but
recent examinations before the Grand
Jury of Nevada county tend to impli-
cate number of white men, some Of
whom are snid'to be respectable citizens
of Truckee, near which town the occur
renee took place If these men are guilty,
(Which we hope is not the case), their
crime of murder most foul is due to the
same feeling of race prejudice" which
justifes the same character of deeds of
blood in another quarter. And a bad
feature of both cases Is that "respecta.
Bile" men are accused in each instance.
If such work was that only of the brutal
order of men, from whom it was to be
expected, we could look for public con-
demnation and speedy justice to follow.
And so far as our California case is con-
cerned, we have an abiding faith that
Justice will be done-that the prejudice
for men to say on their oath as jurors that
it is no murder to kill Chinaman. But
the Hamburg case cannot be looked to
with equal confidence that the wrong will
be made right so far MS it can be, or that
perpetrators will at least receive their
Just deserts. When such crime finds
apologists upon the floor of our National
Legislature, when, the organs of power
ful political party unite to belttle or jus
ti6y the crime, and when, in the whole
section which has been disgrsced by the
occurrence, scarce a man is to be found
vh) has the courage to defy public opin-
ion and raise his voice in condemnation
of the cowardly deed, what hope can we
entertain that the assassins will be
brought to the bar ofjustce
The state of society which justfes or
winks at murder is brought about by a
too slavish adherence to party. For the
honor of the American name we hope
no voice will be raised in palliation or
justification of the Trout Creek murder,
nor do we think it. If the parties accus-
ed are guilty, there will be no voice but
that of condemnation. What has been
gained by prudent course toward rid
ding the State of the Chinese incubus,
will be lost by the lawless act of the Trout
Creek assassins. There is no political
point to be made by justifying this mur-
der, and its perpetrators can look for no
sympathy. Is it SO in the Hamburg
case? Does not every prominent Dem
ocrat with a very few honorable excep-
:ions, either pass the matter over in ST.
lence as unworthy of notice. or else hold
that the murderers were justified A.? And
if this be the case when the Democratsic
party is striving to gain national power
upon the specious claim that it alone is
the party of purity and reform, what
may we not expect if Democracy gains
its ends. day, the party is upon its
good behavior /; such of its leaders as are
skilled in the political situation know
that such display of brutality is calcu-
lated to injure them in that section where
they have most need of strength at the
present, yet even their influence seems
futile to prevent the scenes of Colfax be-
ing repeated at Coushatta and Ham
burg. Democrats may sneer at the 'out-
rage MILL" but so long as the lower ele-
ments Of the party persist in keeping il
running, they will find, like Banquo's
ghost sit will not down"
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