I cannot help but express my surprise at the statements made by the Senator from California. He says in effect that the Pacific slope has diligently worked up the two political conventions recently iu session on this Chinese question to see which party would bid the highest for the vote of the Pacific States. If this crusade against the Chinese immigrants to this country shall be carried out. how will the measure comport with the speeches made only the day before yesterday all over the Union. This laud will no longer be the asylum for the oppressed of all the world. Penople have hitherto been invited here from every quarter of the civilozed world almost. but now. forsooth. because labor is cheap in California. Oregon. and Nevada. them is an organized effort to cut off emigration from China not only. but to expel those of that race already in the country. To be sure. as the Senator from North Carolina says. there may be some bad men among the Chinese immigrants. but there are bad men from other quarters also. I beg the Senator from California to remember what the Mexican population of 1848 would probably have said. if they had had a body to listen to them. when the Americans overran them and took possession of that coun try after the war with Mexico. They were absolutely prostrate. kicked out of doors. and cuffed hither and thitherjnsit as the Chinese are now and as the negroes and Indians are.
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