The Californians are beginning to agitate for the expulsion of
the Chinese from their State. The enterprising little men who follow the English everywhere are going over at the rate of 10,000 a year, and the number is expected to be multiplied by three, and they eat the white man out. They want less and they work more. An average Chinaman properly fed is as strong as an Englishman, and very much more industrious, at all events until he has accumulated an independence. He consequently gets the preference from employers, and so strong is the annoyance created by his virtues that his rivals very often punish him for them by the revolver, and the State has passed a law,—entirely unconstitu- tional, as every State is bound to observe the Treaties of the Union,—imposing a tax on Chinese immigrants. They pay it, however, and go on, and it is by no means improbable that they may become the labouring class of the Pacific seaboard, which was meant by Providence for them, as well as anybody else. The anti-slavery party are taking up their case very warmly, and the Chinese are not Negroes. If pushed too hard, they form secret societies, or Hoeys, and use the revolver almost as effectually as their oppressors.
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