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Oregon wants Colored People, Not Chinese, article from 1879 Reno, Nevada Newspaper [145275]

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Oregon wants Colored People, Not Chinese, article from 1879 Reno, Nevada Newspaper  [145275]
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Front and back pages of the Daily Nevada State Journal, Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, Wednesday Morning, December 17, 1879. Vol. 12, No. 65. C. C. Powning/Editor & Proprietor. Large format newspaper, each leaf 20 3/4" x 13 3/4", folded, some tearing and browning on edges. At least 3/4 of the content of these 4 pages is devoted to display and classified advertising. However, a select few articles do appear on the inside pages. Most are reports on taxation (" A Card to the Taxpayer') or common affairs ("Dr. Hunter, of San Francisco, will be in Reno next Sunday to visit patients and make examinations."). However, the first article which appears in the upper left corner of the insider front page is a real stunner. Titled: Colored Exodus to the Pacific Coast, the article reads as follows: "Senator Saunders has received a letter from an ex-Governor of Oregon saying they want 250,000 colored people in Oregon and would offer every inducement for immigrants of that class, as they prefer them to Chinese. Saunders is urged to use his influence to encourage and exodus of Southern negroes to that State. When the colored exodus from the South first started the Journal offered the suggestion to the people of the Pacific Coast States to encourage the immigration to this part of the country, believing that the colored folks would not only benefit themselves, but would be welcome here, and above all would supplant the Chinese. A thousand times better to help our own citizens than to continue the aid to this miserable foreign class." Such were attitudes then. Note: irony of ironies, Oregon's Exclusion Laws dating to 1843, later rescinded, excluded blacks from owning property or even living in the state.

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State: Nevada
City: Reno
Provenance: Bill McKivor Collection