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For the Nevada Journal.Chinese Emigration to California.Rough and Ready, May 1. 1852.I have just received from ono of our i Representatives, the able report presented to the Legislature by tho Com-mitteo on 'Mines and Mining interests.’ It is a subject, as every one know;;, ol , grave importance to California, and the , matter should be well understood before acted upon ; for a bad law will entail more evils upon the State in one year than can bo remedied in five years. Take, for instance, the law passed by tho firBt Legislature, imposing a tax on foreign miners : no ono can doubt that its effects were more injurious and caused more trouble, by spreading alarm abroad and discontent within, than all the good it ever did to California.Tho main feature of tho report alluded to, urges the closing of our ports to the Asiatic emigration, on the ground that these people have no inclination to become, nor would it be desirable to admit them as American citizens This is true, hut is there no other ground on which to base a more liberal policy ’ i It is well known that the want of a liberal and wider policy is and has been tho great drawback of all the Southern Republics, including Mexico, with its rich soil., its beautiful climate, and its inexhau tiblo mines. Instead of opening their rich-endowed countries free to the world and encouraging labor andindustry, their national po'icy has been marked with the most narrow sectional prejudice, and the result is, that they j are new. many of them on tho ver^c of bankruptcy and ruin.
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Nevada City Journal
Nevada City, California, US
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