capital from all parts of the world, to secure quick
settlement and rapid development, doing in one year
the work that under different circumstances might
occupy one hundred years to accomplish.
The objectionable law was repealed in March 1851. A tax of four dollars was, however, finally imposed on Chinese laborers in the mines; the only reason for discriminating against these people being that they were low, helpless creatures, without even a vote to sell. The miserable spirit of discriminating against foreigners had shown itself in other ways. On the 5th of August 1850, the San Francisco board of aldermen by resolution prohibited that aliens should engage in draying, driving hackney coaches, rowing boats for the conveying of passengers, or selling spirituous liquors.
By midsummer of 1850 anarchy prevailed in the southern mines with alarming proportions. At Mor- mon gulch resolutions were passed that all Mexicans should quit those diggings within fifteen days, or be forcibly expelled. However, this was the action of foreigners, not of Americans. At Sonora it was ordered that all foreigners, except such as were en- gaged in permanent and respectable pursuits, should leave the country within fifteen days. Reading this between the lines, it meant, if we may believe the San Francisco Journal of Commerce of July 29, 1850, that the Americans had determined that all Mexi- cans and Chilians must quit the country. That journal justified the policy because, as it alleged of "atrocities daily perpetrated by foreigners of Spanish- American origin." The native Indian did not rank high enough in the scale of humanity to command the deliberations of any august popular meeting. If he dared strike a blow, whatever its object might be, even in defence of his wife and children, an outcry was raised, and mounted men with rifles would ride to the rancheria, and shoot down men, women, and children^ innocent and guilty, promiscuously. Who
