Year: 1871

ristrict, which nominated Mr. Coghlan
for Congress, adopted the following resolu-
tion:


RESOLVED. That We are in favor of the
passage Of such laws BY Congress as will
efectually prevent the further importation
of Coolie or Chinese labor to compete With
tue free labor of this country


alr. Coghlan, in his speech before the
Convention, before the nomination WIS
made, lodged himself to endeavour to
g euro the prohibition Of Chinese immigra.
ii IN 70 any port Of the United States by
the treaty power 1t will be seen from this
that the Republican party and its Congress.
sional nominee are eminently sound upon
this one of the overshadoEiug questions of
American p,litics.


hat the presence among US Of people
which can never assimilate itself with our
own either in social or political sense, is
sure to prove, in the end, TO be detrimental
to the best interests of the State, none will
attempt he deny. Yet it g an evil which
has grown up gradually and unlocked for.
and one which must necessarily be abated
through the medium of the sane power by
which its growth was mistakenly encour-
aged. 1t is only within the past few years,

that the growth of this evil has became
apparent, and the Democratic party, ever
ready to pander to every prejudice which
promised an accession of strength, were
not slow to take advantage of the popular
feeling against Chinese immigration, as a
means of rcgaining the political power in
this State which they had lost through
their sympathy with the rebellion The
+ cords, however, show that Democracy is
not to be trusted upon this question no
more than upon any er,-with full ,om-
mand Of every department Of the State
Government, they have left the Chinese
question exactly where they -four it four
years ago We might make one exception,
the Chinese are 10 niger subject to pay
Foreign Miners License which fact has
been brought about by attempted Demo
cratic notification. If the Democratic
L ,gislature of 50 had not passed half the
session in making buncombe speeches.
a lvocatine the passage of measures which
had already, in effect, been pronounced un-
constitutional by cur State courts, the min
ing counties would, at this day have been
in the receipt of the Foreign Miners
License as formerly. 1t was on'y to head
OF the proposed nullication schemes of
the California Legislature that the 18th
section was incorporated iu the .'Euforcc.
ment Act,"


And even when fair opportunity was
offered to strike blow in favor of white
labor, that blow was never struck IF the
State chose to donate grants of land or
other aid to railroads, it had on undoubted
right to attach such conditions to the gram
as 1t sa W fit, yet when one gentleman
moved that if "Nnngo'ian labor he en-
ployed in cors rue ting the road the State
nd granted shuuu revert to the State
the proposition commanded but nineteen of
the sxty-eight Democratic votes in the
Assembly. TO much for Democratic
theory and Democratic practice


The position taken by the Republican
party upon this qres ion is the ouly correct
one Orr Federal Cln it rion slys ::
The treaties entered into in pursuance Of
its provisions shall be the supreme law Of
the land" Our only relief from the curse
of Chinese immigration lies in the nodifi.
cation or abrogation of the treaty, by the
sans power which formed the treaty.
And to use his influence to this end Mr..
Coshlan has pledged himself