The Legislature of California provided that the question of the further immigration of Chinese to that coast. or to this country. should be submitted to the vote of the people of that State. At an election held under the forms of law nd in accordance with the coustitutiori of the State. the question was submitted. and out of 161.000 or 162.000 votes cast. 154.000 pronounced against the further immigration of Chinese. and 800 voted in favor of further Chinese immigration. A unanimity of opinion upon this question was so fully demonstrated by that vote thatthere can be no question as to the views or sentiments of the people of that State. The people of the State of California as a people have protected Chinese from being violently treated in that country. except by the rough portion of the people. who sometimes invade other societies. even in the honorable Senators own State.
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