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Show EXPELLING THE CHINESE. The men of California and Washington Territory seem determined to rid themselves them-selves of the presence of Chinamen, and so fixed is that determination that in many -instances they are past reasoning as to the lawfulness or unlawfulness of the means employed for the expulsion of the coolies. It is a most unfortunate thing for the country in general, and the Pacific Coast in particular, that the act restricting Chinese Chi-nese immigration was not passed before the heathen arrived on our shores in numbers sufficient to make his presence here a menace to white laborers. But they are here, and opposed as we are to any further importation of coolies, we cannot but condemn the unlawful and in many instances brutal and murderous mur-derous methods employed to get Tid of them. They came here when, under the provisions of the Burlingame treaty, they had a perfect right to come and go as they saw fit,-and it really seems as though some method less objec tionable than burning them out and murdering them, should be devised to secure their exodus. j . In California it is proposed to resort to j j boycotting, and some of .-the most influential influ-ential journals of that State are calling upon the citizens to aid in the movement,' move-ment,' unless they want "a revolution" that " will Bhake California from San Diego to Mount Shasta." This indicates the deep-seated aversion with which John is regarded there, and the desperate humor of those who seek to get rid of him. In Washington Territory, as related by press dispatches yesterday, large mobs invaded the'Chmeseuatfjrs at .Seattle, entered their houses, packed up their A effects, and drove large numbers of them down -to and aboard of a steamer lying at the Wharf, ready to sail for San Francisco. Fran-cisco. . In order to prevent the mobs from fully. accomplishing their designs, the Governor of the Territory found it necessary to call on the militia and subsequently sub-sequently to suspend the .writ of habeas corpus. Such a state of things cannot exist for any length of time without precipitating conflicts and resulting in acts that are horrible to contemplate. The Chinaman should be protected in his life and property, prop-erty, M but Congress should not delay the passage of such measures as will give the relief which the exigencies of the case call for. -- |