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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 26: Yellow Agony. (search)
tained the verdict of the local Court. Foiled in their design, they went into the Circuit Court of the United States, pleading that the laws of California are in open conflict with the American Constitution, and are therefore void in San Francisco, part of the territory of the United States. The Judges of the Circuit Court adopted this view. Fretted by this verdict in the Circuit Court, the people of California are carrying an appeal to the Supreme Court in Washington; but while Chief-Justice Waite and his venerable brethren are straining over points of law the female slaves are coming in, and a free American State is not at liberty to protect her streets against this moral leprosy. What have the Californians done that they are hindered from shutting their gates on these importers of female slaves? The Judges say the soil is free. A female slave becomes a free woman the moment she sets her foot on Californian ground. But who is to tell such a creature as a Chinese slave th