Chapter 680 This is too American!

August 1859.

The summer evening in Washington was so hot that it was breathless. President Buchanan's shirt was soaked, and sweat slid down his temples, dripping on the letter from Sacramento and then took the train at the fastest speed.

The news in the letter was very, very terrible! So much so that President Buchanan couldn't believe its authenticity.

"Mr. President!" Secretary of State Lewis Cass almost broke open the door of the office. The old politician, who was nearly 70 years old, was panting with sweat beads hanging on his gray temples. "A grand strike broke out across California. The Irish Workers' Party and the Chinese Workers' Federation jointly operated, and the railways, docks, and mines were all paralyzed!"

It turned out that the US State Department also received a express message sent by the California Secretary of State!

Army Secretary John B. Floyd followed, with a heavy sound of military boots stomping on the floor. He threw the quick letter from the California federal army in his hand to the president's desk: "The damn mobs shouted in the streets of Sacramento to build a 'California Workers' State'! This is a blatant trampling on the sacredness of private property!"

Buchanan's fingers trembled unconsciously. He remembered the tragic situation of the Kansas Civil War, the burned plantations and the abolitionists hanging on the roadside. Is this scene going to repeat in California? No, the situation in California seems to be even worse!

After all, the question of whether one can become the private property of another is questionable. There is no slavery in California, and if the so-called workers' state was to be established in California, it would be a complete destruction of the principle that private property is sacred and inviolable!

"Convene an emergency cabinet meeting immediately!" Buchanan loosened his bow tie and breathed in a sultry air. "Notify the Vice President, the Secretary of the Navy, and the leaders of the two parties in the Senate and House of Representatives. Everyone gathered in the West Wing Conference Room of the White House within two hours!"

When Vice President John C. Breckenridge and Secretary of the Navy Isaac Tosey arrived, the West Wing of the White House was already brightly lit.

Navy Secretary Tosi took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. It was already 8:30 pm. Then he closed the pocket watch that he had followed his grandfather to participate in the American Independence War. He was in a very heavy mood!

Only three generations have passed, why has the United States become like this? Some people learn from Europeans to build a working country. This is no longer an ordinary rebel, and they must attack hard!

“Under Article 7 of the Anti-Rebellion Act.”

Before the Secretary of the Navy suggested a heavy blow, Secretary of the Army Floyd had already waved the Department of the Army's emergency report and started yelling, "I suggest that the Fifth and Seventh Infantry Regiments be dispatched to the West Coast immediately. The Navy requests to dispatch the Pacific Fleet to block the San Francisco Bay."

Before he finished speaking, leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives had pushed the door open. Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas waved a telegram: "The Senate Armed Services Committee has agreed to urgently allocate at least two million dollars!"

"The Republicans support the sending of troops to suppress the rebellion," Rep. Throw Weed, rarely, stood on the same front with his political enemies. "But in addition, we also request that the fleet be authorized to seize any ships flying the Taiping flag on the west coast of the United States!"

Looking at the rare bipartisan agreement in front of him, Buchanan suddenly realized that he might really be the first wartime president in American history to suppress the workers' revolution.

the next day.

On Capitol Hill, in the House of Representatives' Chamber, Speaker William Pennington counted the heads and felt that the members were almost there, so he was ready to ring the hammer. Rep. William Gwen, a Democratic California, stumbled in. The wig of the slave-slaughtered man was tilted, and the quick message in his hand rustled:

"Latest news! Governor Weiler announced that the so-called revolution was a rebellion incited by Chinese people! There is no California working country, everything is a conspiracy of Chinese people. Governor Weiler has declared that Chinese people in California have committed rebellion."

The venue exploded instantly!

Although the United States has passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Chinese Exclusion Act does not grant state governments the power to confiscate Chinese assets at will - confiscation of Chinese assets involves infringement of private property! Moreover, Chinese property is mainly concentrated in California, and the benefits brought by confiscation are also from the powerful Californians.

The powerful and powerful in California eat the property of Chinese people, and let the masters of other states in the United States bear the risk of confiscation of their private property. This is too unafraid of America!

America is a case law!

Therefore, the precedent of the government confiscation of private property without passing the court judgment must not be opened! Even if it is "not given as an example", even if it is a "special case"!

Patrick O'Sullivan, an Irish Republican member of California and an ally of Senator O'Connor, stood up sneered and said, "So now to confiscate the Chinese's property, you need to label them with a rebellion first?" He deliberately raised his voice and let the voice echo throughout the hall, "Gentlemen, today can be Chinese, will they be Jews tomorrow? What about the day after tomorrow?"

The seats where the Southern Congressmen were concentrated suddenly fell into silence. Preston Brooks, South Carolina, who once knocked out the abolitionist congressman in the Senate with a cane, looked pale at this moment. He remembered that if the black slaves worth $100,000 in his Charleston Plantation were simply confiscated if the Chinese property was simply labeled, what about the black slaves in the southern plantation? "Abolitionist" is not as high as confiscating the Chinese property?

Therefore, it is best not to open the cracks of the confiscated door!

"Under Article 5 of the Constitution," O'Sullivan raised the United States Constitution, "no person's property shall be deprived without due legal proceedings!"

"That's right, although we advocate anti-Chinese, Chinese are still human!"

"Yes, Chinese are also humans, and Article 5 of the Constitution is also effective for them!"

At this time, Chinese are human again!

Republican Speaker William Pennington also felt that California's Democratic Governor Weller had a little more than you California's wealthy families want to expose Chinese gold coins, so they can do it one by one by one. How can they declare that all Chinese are rebels? If this can be done, then when Republicans become presidents, can they declare that the black slaves in the southern slave states of the United States are rebels and they must be arrested and sent back to Africa?

At the same time, Buchanan stared at the latest urgent telegrams received and frowned. Vice President Breckenridge whispered: "Mr. President, this precedent cannot be set. If the government can declare a group rebellion at will to confiscate property, the southern states will be the first to bear the brunt of it."

The vice president himself is a southern slave owner! If the Yankees are elected as president and confiscate their black slaves, he will also have to rebel!

Army Secretary Floyd also echoed: "The Vice President is right. Even if the government wants to set this precedent, the parliament will not be able to pass emergency funding. Even if the Chinese in California really launch a rebellion, in the eyes of southern states, it is a rebellion expelled from California's anti-Chinese, and the purpose of California's anti-Chinese is to occupy the property of the Chinese."

Navy Minister Tosi nodded, "Yes, in the eyes of the southern states, it is understandable that rebellion in order to protect their own private property is completely different from a revolution that tramples on the principle of sacred and inviolable private property."

"But Weller has declared a rebellion in California. How should the federal government express its opinion?"

This US president is really in a dilemma now! On the one hand, the Southern Democrats are always wary of others to confiscate their black slaves, and on the other hand, the California Democrats who want to confiscate Chinese property every day. The Democrats are about to have internal strife!

"Wait!" Vice President Breckenridge said, "There is no reason why the big guys in California want to make money from Chinese in California to let the federal government pay for troops, right? This is their state affairs in California."

"But." Secretary of Navy Tosi whispered, "None of the Chinese in California has American nationality."

"So what?" The US president looked at the Secretary of the Navy who was reluctant to speak.

"They are all citizens of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!" said the Minister of Navy, "Will the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom send troops to protect overseas Chinese?"

The Xia capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Lushan Mountain.

Luo Yaoguo's fingers slowly moved on the drawings of the "Glorious" class ironclad ship. The set of "Glorious" class drawings that Rinko helped him get really can't be real anymore!

However, having drawings does not mean that it can be made, otherwise the "Glorious" level would not have been delayed until now, and there is no formal keel laying.

"Mr. Bessemai said that the two Armstrong latest 1858 steel rolling mills will take two months to complete commissioning," Xu Shou, general manager of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, whispered to report the progress of the project. "Trial production can be started in November, and the monthly production of armored steel plates is expected to reach 80 tons. As for the power of the ship, Mr. Brown, chief engineer of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, suggested that the horizontal reciprocating steam engine and John Brown's 1857 boiler are selected. The total design power is 8,000 horsepower and the speed is 12.5 knots."

Wang Yan, Secretary of the Navy, took over the topic: "The Armstrong 70mm rear-loading guns imitated by the artillery factory of the Shanghai Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, has an actual measured rate of fire of two rounds per minute! In addition, the 90mm rifled bed used for the production of 90mm caliber rear-loading guns has been loaded from the UK. If the first ship imitating the "Glorious" is scheduled to be delivered in the eleventh year of Tianli, the Navy recommends using 30 90mm rear-loading guns as the main guns. If the teacher wants the first ship imitating the "Glorious" class to be delivered in the tenth year of Tianli, he can only use 36 70mm rear-loading guns, and the firepower is slightly weak."

At this moment, Tianjing worshipped the host of the God-General Hall, Maria, the deputy leader of the True Job Sect, suddenly walked into Luo Yaoguo's office at the Lushan Headquarters with a telegram: "Your Highness, Shanghai is urgently telegrammed! It is news from the True Job Sect in North America!"

"What?" Luo Yaoguo was also stunned. He quickly took the telegram sent by Maria. He looked at it for a few times, his face changed. He paused for a while before turning to Xu Shou. Wang Yan said: "The imitation of Glory No. 1 uses 36 70mm rear-loading guns! The construction period is compressed to 14 months, and it must be delivered before the end of the tenth year of the Tianli period!"
Chapter completed!