S. Hager. who moved the reconsideration of tle vote rejecting the resolution. is a Democrat and the present collector of the port of San Francisco. and was formerly a Senator of the United States from California. Noiman now is a more zealous opponent of Chinese immigration than Judge Hager. and he was one of the first who discovered the Chinese evil. andhis consistency in opposition to it can not be questioned. The above quotation is not made in disparagement of Judge Hager. but simply for the purpose of showing the change of sentiment. FreeSoil Whigs and FreeSoil Democrats in California generally regretted the presence of Chinese on the Pacific coast. fearing that they would form the basis of a new system of slavery. but. labor being scarce. they were not regarded as an inconvenience at the time.
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