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great excitement, and many things were overlooked, and many clauses crept in that ought never to have been adopted, but which do not now exist in any manner whatever. After the adoption of the new
Constitution on the 15th day of September, 1876, an Encampment was held in this city, and the whole matter reviewed, altered and revised, and by as intelligent a set of men as ever got together. All of the crudities and objectionable sections as quoted by you were stricken from the law, and are not now, in any wise, the law of the Order.
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Class B (perpetual). These enemies were to be harassed, with the constitution calling upon “every
Caucasian of every camp, encampment and the Supreme Camp, to pursue and injure every one of Class A, while he remains on the list of public enemies, and each and every one of Class B, forever, in all their walks of life, save religion, morality and person.”
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So far as the quotations are concerned they are correct, as regards the
Constitution referred to. It was the first Constitution gotten up, very crude in many particulars, defective as all new organizations are at the beginning. The Constitution referred to was adopted April 19, 1776, during a time of
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Article XVI that rendered someone a Class B public enemy were: “He who betrays the secrets of the order"; “He who violates, knowingly, his obligation in regard to public enemies"; “He who has, or does, contact with, and brought, or brings, to America, Asiatics"; and “He
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Article XV of the constitution concerned Class A public enemies. They were defined as temporary. Any person on the list could be removed from it should they no longer meet the order’s classification criteria. Class A enemies committed relatively minor infractions against the interest of white labor.
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newspaper published a report citing these articles from the April 1876 Constitution as evidence to support a claim that the militant nativist ideology perpetuated by the Order of
Caucasians and similar organizations was a key cause of the arson of Chico’s Chinatown earlier in the month. In response,
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in the state. The order thus sought to protect white labor by barring California’s Chinese population from employment. The order were outspoken supporters of legislative attempts to limit Chinese immigration to America, efforts which ultimately culminated in the
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