Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-10-15

place of the overseer's lash. If they submit,
they will be st instruments to make slaves of
US all. If they resist, civil war will become the
chronic condition of the country. The United
States ave no right to intermeddle with this
business except in certain contingencies, well
defined and carefully provided for in the COL
stitutiOn. The old excuse that these limits
ought to be disregarded because they confpe
the powers of certain persons within limits
inconveniently narrow, is not one which ought
to find acceptance in the judgment of free
people. But if the general Government must
settle the controversies between the railroad
corporations and their laborers, let its inter
ference take any shape but that of standing
army; for that would not only be cruel ard
dangerous, but the most expensive that could
be adopted. | believe none of these corpor-
atoms think that less than hundred thou
sand men would serve their purpose and that
is gross miscalculation, for three times that
number would hardly be sufficient 1t would
be much better, easier and cheaper to take out
of the Federal Treasury as much money as
will pay the railroad employees far wages and
let the corporations have the fruit of their
labor as clear gain.
| reproduce these editorials of mine to let
it be known that have not always failed to
side with the workingmen, and to show that
my sympathies. awakened by life which has
never been free from the embarr&ssments of a
pinched wallet or exempt from the conditions
which compel man to work for his livelihood,
are neither benumbed nor vitiated in regard of
my fellow toilers.
AS to soue loose statements to the effect
hot ~ ho
when they were arrested in Carson in 1876 for
"uniawfnl assembly, need only to say that l
was at Cincinnati attending the Convention at
the time of the trial of Hone and Cade, and
that did not enter the State until some three
weeks after the said trial 1t may be remem-
bered that that wss the Centennial year, and
that was a sort Of vagabond correspondent
of the Enterprise from Washington and Phil
sdelphia during those eventful weeks.
But writing for a newspaper il one thing
Official acts are another.
In the winter of 1877 was member Of the |
House of Assembly. I introduced resolution |
amending the Constitution by striking out the
word "white. " Here follows copy of the
SAID resolution.
Resolved, By the Assembly, conformity with |
the Senate, that Section l of Article of the |
Constitution of this State shall be amended by |
the elimination therefrom of the word white,
and the effect of such elimination shall be that
no male citizens of the United States shall be
excluded from the rights of suffrage and Office
holding by reason of race, color or previous
condition of servitude; procided that this
amendment shall not be construed as confer
ing the rights of naturalization, suffrage and
,ffice holding upon any native of the Chinese
Empire.
submit that this is the only practical piece
# legislation ever attempted in this State
With reference to excluding the Chinese from
participation in our affairs.
All this is prepared and presented in
auch haste l put it forth in order that l
nay not be entirely misunderstood by the
Torkingmen, in whose cars an Industrious and
ritical opposition seeks to whisper away my
ight of fair consideration at their hands.
NJ not afraid of the consequences, be what
hey may The people are sure to be right,
hatever they choose to do concerning my Z
andidacy HENRY r. MIGHELs.