...demonstrated that once "China boys" were given an opportunity, they were just as willing and able to "vote at the same polls, study at the same schools and bow at the same altar" as anyone else in America.46 Hence they deserved to have the same place in the "melting pot" and be treated...

...festivities in San Francisco 15 prompted the city's main daily newspaper to predict with confidence that "the China Boys will yet vote at the same polls, study...the same schools, and bow at the same altar as our own countrymen." The same year, California governor John McDougal publicly characterized the Chinese...

...AM In California, as late as 1851, the San Francisco Daily Alta California would cheerfully predict, "China boys will yet vote at the same polls, study...the same schools and bow at the same Altar as our own countrymen." This more or less happened as predicted, but a long time would pass between the "will"...