MEETING OF MINERS.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 374, 14 November 1849, Page 3

MEETING OF MINERS.

At a masN meeting of the miners of the Mockelumne Rivt'i and 'ts tributaries, held on the 7tli July. 1849, at the lntoHection of Hunt's Creek and said liver, for the purpose of consulting on measures in which their intt i estti are dieply involved, anil th«ir lu.ure welfare concertieil, W. T. Dougherty, M. D., was appoinlel Pie-idunt, and Thomas Fallon and D)n Pedro, Virp-prebuleiits, and Michael Tuckennaii Secretary, of sud uiei'uui». The foil >wing piearnble and reb'ilu'ious presented by .). Donnelly, were unanimously adopted : Whet cub we li.ive assembled this day for the purpose of devising measures and executing resolves in accordance wuh our present interests ane future welfare. The si'dden and unexpected appearanre amongst us of influential mpn from the distant provinces of Mexico, Chili, Peru, Sandwich Islands &c, wi h large band* ot hit c cl men (who are nominally slaves) — and who, by m\ Act ol Congress pnssed in 1807, are virtually ex» eluded fi nn all participation in the profits arising from the pokl pinner recently discovered in California —have contributed in a most serious degree to para • ly^e the efforts of tho,e who, relying upon their own e\erio q fcr a liv liliood, or the profitable investment of their 1 ibour, have been forestalled in their views and tin ii expeditions disippointed by fie presence amon.'st them of tlioßC woise than Russian scrfr. They have not come to this country with the view of settling or locating Inn-Is — agriculture languish's in view of them, while the useful irts, commerce, and manuf.ic'ures lire to them a dead letter. It is in vain to think tint Americans, who hive conquered and own the soil, and under whose special legislation it must ultimately be ruled, that the native Californ'an who must necessarily love his country, or the foip'jrne 1 (no mattei of what country) who, thrown by citviitn t inces or love of adventure to locale himself as a permauienl- resident of the country, who wrested (or aided to wre->t) it from Mexican misrule — who (lisdvpipd the resources of the country and applied thos- ie ources to practical purposes— can ever hope lo cimpfte with the hordes of hired men who nrc { - weekly, n<iy almost dailv flocking in upon them from the most distant provinces of Mexico and South America. In view of thfse censidrrations, we the miners of the Moc'k r luinne River and i's tributaries, in mas^ Meeting assembled, do Resolve — Thai we consider the immediate expulsion fiom the Diggings before mentioned of all classes of slaves sr hired serfs coming from distant countries, I and who IV im their numbers and lepuisive habits nr<! tli s means o\ doing infinite injury to the honest labourer who, relying upon his own independent and individual exertion fora livelihood, or the moms of bettering bii condition— as an expedient which must be finally resorted to, and that the sooner it is put into pxecution the evils of which we so justly comphiin will lie diminished mid oui future lights be regirJed. And we do further resolve — That du^ notice be uiven to those foicign taskmasters and the men in their employ that they will he requned to leave the Diggings above mentioned by the 9 h diy of the p"esent month, or that such m -a.ures will be adopted in relation to their removal as will effectually preclude the r pres nee from the Mot kelutnne Rivei, its tributaries, and what is at present co sidered its remite piecit'Cts On the mvion of Mr .7. Ilaslcell, it was fur her resolved — 'That this Meeting adjourn, to mpet ,t 12 o'clock X, on Vlondiiy the f)tli instant, fully ai o cd and eipiipprd, for tha purpose of cdrryiii' into eft ct i the abnvp reio titious. | Oi motion, Resolved— Tl]nl above proceodi gs bo pul) ishcil ii the Alia diltfm niu and a'l other papers publish d in C ililoinia, I W P. UoufiiiEßTV, President ' M. Tuckerm\n, Secretary.