Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-27
DUB MeNGOLIANs
MAKE HASTE SLOWLY, But THEY
MUST GO.
Remarks of Rev. Mr.. Cummings. of
Rocklin, Upon the Anti-Chi-
nese Question.

Remarks Of Rev. Mr.. Cummings, of
Rocklin, Upon the Anti-Chi-
nese Question.
At public meeting held by the Anti
Coolie Club at Rocklin a few evenings
since, Rev. Mr. Cummings of that place
was called upon for remarks, and spoke as
follows:
In 1919, on the 9th of September l set
my foot upon the shores of California. ard
with the exception of seven months, have
been resident of the State up to the pres
ent time. l was invited to speak a few
moments tonight on this question of the
Chinese. | accepted because feel a great
interest in whatever pertains to the interest
of California and whatever serves TO in
jure California or the people that have
made this place their home, | feel like lift
ing my voice against. l have not at the
present time, very much sympathy with
the sentiment that is so fiippantly an
nounced by certain class of people. that
because we have recognized the authority
Of all men before The law in the Declare
ton of Independence, and asserted there
that God had endowed men with certain
inalienabe rights among which are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness that
we must therefore throw open wide our
national doors for all nations. coup-
tries, tongues and people under the
whole heavens, to send in their pau
pers or their criminals, and compel us
to sit by their sides and eat food they pre-
pare for our mouths, and wear the gar
ments which they clean for our persons. ]
am not prepared to say that we
MUST FELLOWSHIP wITH THEN:
That we must admit them into our So
cieties, and allow our children to be
brought up under their influences. God
made them Chinese in China, and he made
US Americans in America. / belieye. Mr..
Chairman, in the doctrine that Americans
must and should rule America. lAp-
plause.l We don't want the Arab, nor the
Turk, nor the paupers, nor the dregs of
Asia to come here and set up their institu-
tioEs in our midst and worship their losses.
Neither do we want the lazzaroni of Eu-
rope, their paupers nor their criminals, for
our forefathers did not intend that this
country should be colonized as penal col
onies by men that could not live in the old
world. To this new continent they brought
the noblest institutions that God has ever
given to the human family. They built
their churches and schoolhouses together.
felled the forests, and sent back for friends
to come over, for they had found a great
country, the boundaries of which they
knew not. and commenced their work
nobly; and they went on sustained and
strengthened in this work by men of noble
minds like themselves, and noble women
also. They therefore needed assistance,
and when they opened the door and
INVITED THEIR coUNTRYMEr
From eastern shores to come here and
make home with them and beside them,
they never dreamed that this country
should be overrun by a set of men from
foreign nations that never could assimiIate
with us; whose only object was to come
here, and plumber and commit crime and
gathering up all they could, retire to their
homes again across the great Pacific or the
great Atlantic but they wanted men and
women that loved God and worked right
eousness to come here and establish with
them homes for all time. And | have
always considered it, Mr.. Chairman. a
most wonderful secret in Gods providen-
tial reform among nations, when l look
back over the history of past ages and see
how nations have risen and crumbled in
succession-great and mighty empires have
come up and gone down-and thinks this
continent, long and broad with the great
est resources, more varied in its soil be-
meath heavens canopy than could have
been found anywhere on this great earth.
that all this was held in reserve unit! the
sixteenth century A. D.
JUDGING BY HISTORY,
He designed it, in my mind for some no
bic race, some people who were to here
originate elevated systems and institutions
and build up from these vast resources a
NJ hot Al
lighthouse of the civilized world So came
our forefatheIs upon these coasts, and es-
tablished from Massachusetts to the great
lakes their first homes. | remember well
when even the edge of Ohio was the ex-
IRENE end Of civilization in the West. l
can remember when some of our neigh
bors left their homes, sold out. and started
for the Western Reserve. We bid them
good-by, for We never expected to hear
from them again, for we thought they had
gone out of the world, so little did we know
of che extent of this country in those early
times. And whenever there was colony
from another European country that stood
in our way in the western path of civiliza-
ton, we bought it like an honest people.
We bought the Floridas, bought Louisiana,
and we bought Texas-in fact, by shedding
the best blood of the nation to secure it
and we secured New Mexico, California and
Arizona, and our country has thus found
the Pacific shores, and no point between
the Atlantic and Pacific, between the Do
minion OF Canada and the Gulf of Mexico,
is claimed or can be claimed by any other
people. Now. then, shall, we admit the
Chinese, and hold them here until they
shall
POUR THEIR HUNDRED MILLIONS
Upon this western coast and the bitter con-
fict cODlpS q q IN Uhn shall ho ~ ocfarc and
who the owners? This sentiment is not
one of inspiration this evening. At home,
l lived within three miles of the great
statesman Daniel Webster. / had several
interviews with him before left Boston
for Califol MIA. He asked me to keep him
posted as to the great results then matur-
ing, because there was little known as to
the settlement of this State-I would say,
very earnestly indeed land l hope the re-
porter will take it DOWN, Mr.. Webster was
extremely anxious that California, without
any territorial organization. should come
Immediately to Congress as an organized
State and ask for admission, as he feared
that if we undertook to delay that step
the settlement of California would be
overrun by the slave power of the South,
and it would fall in with that institution.
and we would lose the grandeur of this
western portion of the country through
that influence. This he said personally to
me on my last interview. / wrote to Mr..
Webster in 1852, and the last letter wrote
him was on this very Chinese question.
That year. you will recollect, by looking at
the statistics, there were $4,000 Cinnamon
landed on this coast
THEY COMMENCED COMING
In the winter preceding that year. spread
ing all through the mines and getting the
richest claims they could seize upon. l
felt that this California belonged to Ameri-
cans. Their blood had been shed to get it.
1t had been secured by treaty. 1t was our
property and ! pleaded with Mr.. Webster