All the western states and territories . all this number of 50,000 Chinamen, by the laws of California, not one is allowedto vote, not one to give evidence in a court of justice, but kept virtually outlawed, andliable to all manner of unlimited abuse, robbery, or personal cruelty, with no possibility ofredress, except some European happens to be an eye-witness. If some renegade Celt ofSaxon wishes to plunder a Chinaman, knowing the law and the poor mans defenselessnesshe has but to choose a time when none but Chinese eyes are looking on ! A hundred Chi*nese may witness a deed of violence, but
All the western states and territories . all this number of 50,000 Chinamen, by the laws of California, not one is allowedto vote, not one to give evidence in a court of justice, but kept virtually outlawed, andliable to all manner of unlimited abuse, robbery, or personal cruelty, with no possibility ofredress, except some European happens to be an eye-witness. If some renegade Celt ofSaxon wishes to plunder a Chinaman, knowing the law and the poor mans defenselessnesshe has but to choose a time when none but Chinese eyes are looking on ! A hundred Chi*nese may witness a deed of violence, but their united testimony is worthless and inadmisBible against a European or American evil-doer within the limits of the state. (Jto CALIFORNIA. 459 San Francisco, as a town, is of very recent origin: but the immediate vi-cinity has a history dating back to the year 1776. Then the Mission of SanFrancisco was founded, which stood two and a half miles south-west of thecove of Yerba Buena; at the same time was erected a presidio and a fort. Harbor of San Francisco. along the margin of the Golden Gate. In 1835, the first habitation waareared on the site of San Francisco, by Capt, W. A. Richardson, who, beingappointed harbor master, erected a tent of a ships foresail, and supported itby four redwood posts. His business was to manage two schooners, whichbrought produce from the various missions and farms to the sea going ves-sels that came into the cove. In May, 1836, Mr. Jacob Primer Leese arrivedin the cove, with the intention of establishing a mercantile business in con-nection with partners at Monterey. He erected the first frame house, whichwas 60 by 25 feet, placing it alongside of the tent of Richardson, and on the 470 CALIFORNIA. site of the St. Francis Hotel, corner of Clay and Dupont-streets. The man-sion was finished on the 4th of July, and the day was celebrated by a grandbanquet. The guests, numbering about (50, consisted of the principal Mex-ican families of the neighborh
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