The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-03-02


Tsing empire grant to any nation, OIL
the merchants or citizens of any ma.
tion, any rights, privileges. or favor
connected either with navigation, com.
merce, political or other intercourse,
which is not conferred by this treaty,
such right, privilege and favor shall al
once freely inure to the benefit of the
United States, its public officers, iner-
chants and citizens " against the body
of stipulations in our favor, and this
permanent engagement of guaranty in
respect of all future concessions to for
eign nations, the general promise Of
permanent peace and good offices in
part seems to be the only equivalent
For this the first article undertakes as
follows: There shall be, as there
have always been, peace and friend
ship between the United States OF
America and the Ta-Tsing empire, and
between their people respectively
they shall not insult or oppress each
other for any trifing cause, SO as to
produce an estrangement between
them, and If any other nation should
act unjustly or oppressively, the United
States will exert their good offices, on
being informed of the case, to bring
about an amicable arrangement of the
question, thus showing their friendly
feelings.
At the date Of the negotiations Of
this treaty our Pacific possessions had
attracted considerable chinese immi-
grafton, and the advantages and the
inconveniences felt or feared therefrom
had become more or less manifest, but
they dictated no stipulations on the
subject to be Incorporated in the treaty.
The year 1868 was marked by the strik-
ing event of spontaneous embassy
from the Chinese empire, headed by
an American citizen, Anson Burlin-
game, who had relinquished his diplo-
matic representation of his own coun-
try, In China, to assume that Of the
Chinese empire to the United States
and the European nations. BY this
time the facts of Chinese immigration
and its nature, influence, present and
prospective, had become more noticea-
BILE, and were more observed by the
population Immediately affected, and
by this government. The principal
feature of the Burlingame treaty was
Its attention to and it's treatment Of
the Chinese immigration, and the Chi
nese as forming, or as they should
form, part of our population. Up
to this time our uncovenanted hospi-
tality to immigration, our fearless lib
erty of citizenship, our equal and COM
prehensive justice to all inhabitants.
whether they abjured their foreign ma
tional ties or not, our civil freedom,
and our religious liberation had made
all corners welcome, and under these
projections the Chinese in considera-
BILE numbers, had made their lodgment
upon our soil. The Burlingame treaty
undertakes to deal with this situation,
and its 9th and 9Th articles embrace its
most important provisions in the re-
gard, and the main stipulations in
which the Chinese government has Sc
cured an obligatory protection of its
subjects within our territory. They
read as follows:
Article 5.-The United States of
America and the emperor of China
cordially recognize the inherent and in
alienable right of man to change his
home and allegiance, and also the mu-
tual advantage of the free immigration
and emigration of their citizens and
subjects respectively from the one
country to the other for purposes Of
curiosity, of trade, OF as permanent
residents. The high contracting par.
ties therefore join in reprobating any
| other than an entirely voluntary emf
grafton for these purposes. They con
sequently agree to pass laws making
it penal offense for citizen of the
United States or Chinese subjects to
take Chinese subjects either to the
United States or to any other foreign
country, or for Chinese subject OF
citizen of the United States to take
citizens of the United States to China,
or any other foreign country, without
their free and voluntary consent re
spectiyely.
Article 6.-Citizens of the United
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