1850 American Gold Baron

Chapter 479 Crossing the River

Author: fish nest

Chapter 479 Crossing the River

The Columbia River is the dividing line between Oregon and Northern Oregon Territory, which later became Washington State.

This is not only the administrative dividing line between the two places, but also the dividing line between civilization and barbarism, openness and stubbornness, modernity and primitiveness, developed and backward.

A river divides the north and south banks into two different worlds.

To the south is the prosperous and rapidly developing state of Oregon, where new immigrants arrive every day and new buildings are rising here.

The north is still a wild land with a lot of resources waiting to be developed.

Northern Oregon is also a fertile land, and immigrants once wanted to cross the Columbia River and enter the Northern Oregon region to open up new settlements.

Unfortunately, these immigrants were driven back to the South Coast by the unfriendly racism of Northern Oregon. They claimed that Northern Oregon did not welcome immigrants of color and that Northern Oregon was a white Northern Oregon.

As a result, many conflicts broke out between the two sides.

The current Governor of the Northern Oregon Territory, Stevens, is a Democrat from Washington, DC.

He saw political opportunity in the conflict between racists and Chinese immigrants in northern Oregon.

He held high the flag of pure Ohio and gathered white people and racists on the West Coast under his command, in an attempt to keep immigrants of color away from the south bank of the Columbia River. In the future, he would establish the Northern Ohio state as a Democratic constituency and expand the power of the Democratic Party.

and thereby enhance their voice within the party.

April 29, 1856, was an ordinary day.

Thousands of organized immigrants carried their luggage and took ferries to the north bank of the Columbia River, a forbidden land for Chinese immigrants.

The nearby white immigrants in Northern Oregon soon learned of the news. As usual, they held rifles to intimidate the immigrants crossing the river in an attempt to drive them back to the south bank.

"You damn yellow-skinned monkeys! Get out! Go back to the South Shore! This is Northern Oregon, you are not welcome!"

"Get out! Get out! If you don't get out, I'll shoot!"

"Don't be ungrateful!"

The two sides pushed each other, refused to give in, and almost started fighting.

These immigrants were not afraid of the intimidation of northern Oregon whites, and had no intention of retreating in the face of their threats.

Collins, who was among the immigrants, took out his improved camera and set it up ready to take pictures.

"Hey! You damn traitor and lackey! Put your camera away quickly, or I will smash your camera to pieces!"

Collins's camera was still too big and conspicuous, so it was quickly discovered by a white man. The white man scolded Collins.

In the eyes of these racists, Collins, who mingled among the Chinese, was naturally a traitor and lackey.

These racists are very extreme. They believe that the white people on the West Coast who are mixed with Chinese are traitors and lackeys. Only those white people who stick to the pure land of northern Oregon are the real white people. They are also proud of this.

On a loach boat on the Columbia River, Liang Yao was observing every move on the North Shore of Oregon through a telescope.

This immigration operation was planned by his Wu Yuanhua. He wanted to take this opportunity to complete the last piece of the puzzle in the West Coast region and bring the entire West Coast region into his sphere of influence.

He does not allow racist strongholds like Northern Oregon to exist on the West Coast.

The immigrant team that landed on the North Shore was not a pure immigrant team. There were two battalions of Oregon militia members mixed in with this immigrant team.

The few observant white people on the North Shore seemed to realize something was amiss.

Compared with previous immigrants, the scale of this immigration is too large, and these immigrants are all young and middle-aged people, and some young and middle-aged people actually have murderous intent in their eyes.

These people are definitely not simple immigrants. This is the idea of ​​a few observant white people.

"We are American citizens! American citizens have the right to settle in any American territory!"

The leader of the Chinese immigrants stood up to confront the immigrants blocking their northward march, and threw his ID card in the face of the white leader.

In the early history of the United States, there were no paper documents proving citizenship. The main way to obtain U.S. citizenship was through the jus soli or naturalization process.

Starting in the mid-19th century, some states and cities began to issue their own resident certification documents, but these certification documents were usually only used to prove identity and residence, and did not include information about nationality.

California is the state with the most complete household registration system in the United States. The ID card of a Californian contains detailed information such as nationality, household registration, date of birth, and place of residence, and is assigned to each person based on his place of residence (place of birth) and date of birth.

Each citizen has a unique ID number.

The ID card thrown out by the leader of the Chinese immigrants was a California ID card.

"American citizens? Do you count as American citizens?" The white leader sneered at this. He sneered and grabbed the ID card and tore it into pieces in front of everyone.

"Don't hold a piece of paper and think that you are an American. We are the Americans! I'll give you five minutes, take your people and go back to the South Bank immediately! Otherwise, don't blame me for being rude!"

The actions of the white leaders won applause from northern Oregon whites.

The actions and words of the white leaders aroused the indignation of the Chinese. Most of these Chinese immigrants were militiamen and old immigrants from the Oregon militia.

Their sense of citizenship is much stronger than that of new immigrants.

On weekdays, Liang Yao instructs immigrants in California that paying taxes makes them citizens, and the more taxes they pay, the more glorious they will be and the more rights they can enjoy.

Citizenship is also one of the things that these former Qing dynasties valued most.

"Taxpayers are citizens! You poor devils don't pay more taxes than we do! A bunch of moths!" one of the old immigrants retorted.

"Damn it! You idiot deserves a beating, don't you?!" The immigration leader whose ID card was torn into pieces immediately went berserk and revealed the quintessence of Chinese culture, "Do you know that it's painful to get a new ID card?!"

White people in northern Oregon basically don't know Chinese, but they can still understand some of the quintessence of Chinese in the Chinese language.

In anger, the two fought together.

Collins, who was standing aside, secretly raised his camera under the cover of Chinese immigrants to record the moment.

The conflict quickly escalated, and the two sides instantly turned from pushing and yelling into a fight.

There were only a small number of white people in Northern Oregon, so a fight between three hundred people and more than a thousand people would definitely suffer. They were soon at a disadvantage in the fight, and were beaten until they were running around, unable to find their way back.

In order to regain the ground and control the situation, the white people in Northern Oregon fired warning shots into the air with guns in their hands, hoping to frighten these unscrupulous Chinese immigrants and make them retreat.

This scene was naturally recorded by Collins, who had quick eyes and quick hands.

Who would have thought that after hearing the gunfire, these Chinese immigrants not only had no intention of retreating, but actually became more excited.

"Brothers! The ghost guy is shooting!"

"They fired first! Shoot them!"

After the gunfire, these Chinese immigrants all took out long and short rifles from their luggage.

Facing a spear several times his own, the white man from Northern Oregon, who was so aggressive a second ago, wilted like an eggplant beaten by frost.

The Oregon militiamen disguised as immigrants skillfully disarmed and captured these stunned white Oregonians.

Two months ago, these militiamen from the Oregon militia had handed over many Mexican weapons in Mexico, and they were very familiar with this set of work procedures.

(End of chapter)