Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-11-18
RENARkARlK REssLrTleSA

The following extraordinary preamble
and resolutions we're adopted BY tie
people Of Tacoma In mass meeting On
the llth inst:
wzEzxAs, About thirty good. pescea-
BILE. iaw-abidins citizsnsof Tacoma have
beea arrested undsr indictments found
by Q grand Jury at Vancouver. W T.. for
an alleged violation Of Law IN connect on
With the recent exodcs of Chinese from
| this place.
wHrREAs, Said Chinese we're not only
not forcibly expelled. as charged, bat OF
their own accord packing up ana ieavise
| II obedience to a prevailing and we'll
knssp public sentiment against their
presence. and no single word was spc ken
| or act committed to wound or hurt them
| 10 mind or person, but. on the contrary,
money vss paid and provision and trans
portstiou furnished free of charge TO aid
them in moving. and tsey were kindly
housed and cared for during their wait
! ing for the cars.
WHEREAS, The Government. throagb
IT'S executive and judicial departments,
has not only failed TO epforcs the re-
striction act, bat has already in the
city Of San Francisco prostitated tie
| WIT Of habeas corpus IN favor Of q
PLAIN and palpsbls violation OF said
act, nay, worse. thereby admitting q
class Of semi slaves" plainly exclude
by laws.
WHKsKAs, An insignificant minority
Of the people of Tacoma, traitorously
combining with the rgents of the Chr
uese Six Companies, have procured the
indictment of over thirty of the leading
peacesble and lsw-abidin9 citizens of
Tacoma for participation in the move
ment which eliminated in Kidding this
city Of the Chinese plague; and
WHEREAS. The Governor of this Ter.
rItory, Watson q. Squire, has falsely
represented to the President of the
United States that domestic violence
existed in this Territory. and that the
Law could not be enforced by the ordinary
course of judicial proceeding. and has
by said manifestly false representation
procured the sending of United States
troops to Seattle and given the Territory
character for violence which it has not
deserved; be it therefore by this mass
meeting
Resolved, That said citizens of Taco
ma thus indicted have at all times
throughout the anti-Chinese movement
EcpIS86utcu tuo dttuOot bcu-
timent of the whole county of Pierce,
and the best sentiment of the Pacific
coast, and that We hereby pledge TO
them our unwavering support in the
defense Of their course in said move
ment.
2. That the Chinese exodus from Ia
coma was throughout Of a peaceful
character, and We hereby denounce all
assertions to the contrary as willfully
and maliciousiy false.
3. That il the General Government
had shown, in the enforcement of the
Chinese Restriction Act, 1.-THE of the
promptitude and zeal displayed in re-
spending to Gov. SQuire's unwarranted
call for the use of troops, there would be
| no occasion for the anti Chinese aeita-
ton which now prevails over the whole
Pacific coast.
| 4. That the parties who procured the
1 indictment at Vancouver of the oom-
mittee of fifteen and other citizens Of
Tacoma have earned the contempt aud
execration Of the people of Pierce
county, aud it is the duty of the people
to enter their names in a dishoHered
black list for preservation and perpetual
reference.
5. That there was no excuse or coca
sion for Gov. Squire's representations to
the President. or for the employment OF
the United States troops to preserve the
peace in Seattle.