Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-11
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE.
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employ such labor he may prefer is where he pre-
fer serf or slave lsbaf then the divine spirit of
Christianity steps in and says Thou shalt not sell
nor barter the image Of thy Maker aud this ma
ton % sealed that truth in the blood of her
tyred sous upon the Southern fields of battle for the
freedom of the black man, and her sons are not
ready yet TO have black slavery replaced by yellow
serfion That the Chinese coolies are bought sold
and sent here to labor out bonded system we hope
even memoralists, in face of the facts bearing
upon the case will not attempt to deny.
Again, your memorial says: No right should
be taken from any man however poor" In this SEN
timent We heartily concur. The moral contained
therein contains true Christian SPIRIT yet it ssvors
strongly OF the sand lot and smacks of Kearneyism
and therefore shall give less consideration than
We otherwise would Casting its sand lot odor
aside would answer that there is even rqht thot
we would take away from the poores.-the right to
vitiate or contaminate his felow-men. This right,
you will readily agree, should. even be taken away
from chi lese paupcr, and the mes. stringent
measures enacted TO protect our people from the
Eitating and concentrating effects of Chinese paa-
pe-ism. Again, you say "such laws would preiu-
dice Christian che nd' IF the % Chinese aa inst
pagan Chinese the right, when serving as
nurses TO our children, to inst into their
young and tender minds the seeds of idolatry and
prejudice the minds OF our children against the
teachings of Christianity? Is it not, submit,
vastly better that we prejudice the minds of the
pagan than that the pagan prejudice the minds Of
our children? Again, you counsel us " to pass hu-
Uhnt measures, uOt cruel nor WICKED Nl,lslatlOu
This language, respectfully submit, is rather
strong in the assumption of the authors
perior humanity therefore shall pass it by with
that Christian charity and forbearance necessary
a calm and intelligent view of the question.
Your memorial concludes with the exclamation:
60 righteousness exalteth nation ] Sin is
proach to any people" In answer to and in support
of this exclamation would say, This is the
why we advocate The Chinese must 60" Are not
these idolaters the incarnation OF sin itself? Are
they not the most criminal element of all others,
according TO the daily record Of the pressure they
not reproach to any peoplef We would ask if the
building of temples of idolatrY in Christian land
exalteth that land the people thereof? 'Sin IS
reproach to any people" Will the immigration of
sinful people purify Christian people, with sin
enough already? That these people are sinful in
the extreme would seek TO prove by citation of
the following facts Do these pagans not sell their
women? Do they not cast out their sick and weary
to die? Do they not advertise rewards to murderF
Do they not, when they pretend apostasy to their
wooden god still wear the emblem of their idola-
try-the queue Do they not out-le, outsteal, out
cheat, out-vice any other people or race? Are not
their customs, characters and persons revolving as
whole? Therefore is it not reproach to foster or
encourage a PEOPLE whose presence Is dangerous 10
the safety of political social and religious Inst
buttons? And is it not the duty of tha peoples rep
resentatiyes 10 save them from the evils OF Chinese
immigration?