Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-04-01
From The Charleston Is C.,sAIercu4y, March LIST.
Tl,e CooIle or rsritis1 slave II rasae.

Fronaahe Charleston Is: c.,.nIercasys March LIST.
The cooils or BrItish slave Trade.
Contemporary with the final triumph (that is, the
theoretical triumph1 of the Britiahe slave trade,
sprung into existence new tfafhc. quite innocent
and even praseworthy.in the eyes of philanthropy.
whereby it satisfy itself by forever gazing at its
own complete idea. instead be being compelled 10
take the broken images of things as they are > ana
the ubstitute has proved ingenious that even the
sugar planters of Cuba have almost come to the
conclusion that it is cheaper and better than the
original. 1t has accordingly thriven wonderfully
under the joint countenance of philanthropy anu the
3 dealers in human cattle''
Our attention has been drawn to this subject by
the California papers received by the last arrivals
From leading ports of India, and more especially
from China, ii would appear that the coo'ie trade
has been fully organized on grand scale. In
single Calcutta paper there is notice OF ten ships
taken up for the transportation of coolies to the
British West Indies. Many thousands are every
year carried to the Maurius, where they are work
ed to death, and thus made for more.
But the trade in China is most remarkable, IN
consequence of its having finally come athwart the
intense nationality Of the Chinese, and thus leo not
only to variety of petty tragedies and explosions
but to exposure of the true character OF the tra
fc SO gracious y smiled upon by Exeter hall, IN the
midst of its denunciations of slavery.
The Hindoos a patient race, used to be con-
quered tramped on skinned. and sold by strangers.
take all this matter of course and without com.
plant. The coolie trade has therefore Hourlshed
with them, and gone increasing, without MUIR
muir question. But the Chinese are a ol1ereht
sort of animal-vain Of their national name, desps-
ing and hating foreigners, and as turbulent and mob
bish as the Mexcans themselves. Greedy OF gam,
and singulary INSCRIPTIONS as to the means there
was not the sn,aIles5 difficulty in engaging any
amount of Chinese brokers in the business OF selling
their countrymen-the difficulty to get the cat
tle' into the market 1t appears that sound Chi
naman delivered at the British agency, was worth
hundred dollars, and the cattle. as we sald not be-
ing pleased with the process of transfer to the out
side barbarians it was necessary for the agents to
resort to cunning Devices and when these talled to
plain kidnapping,
| The result has been anything but pleasant. In a
case not very long SINCE the coolies rose against the
officers If the ship sea, and murdered them. The
Alta California intimates that the example has peer
abundautly copied since. says I" Every arrlva
brings US accounts of vessels putting back without
officers and in the utmost Distress the result of dis
affection and mutny the part of the injured anc
deuded passengers who were perhaps induced t(
take passage under false representations, and prom
! Uses of a speedy passage to California or some othe
country where they might earn subsistence.
This is not all. The Chinese population at home
have become bitterly exasperated at the fraud
practised on them, and in the cities where the sys
tenn has been most extensively set in force, have
mobbed the British traders, and put to death the
Chinese agents. AT Annoy the crew of man-ot
war was called on shore to defend the house Of on
of the dealers in "human cattle" But it is no
called the slave trade and therefore is honest in tn
eyes of all the motley tribes of mouthers and phar
sees But the real character of it may be deter
mined by the fact that the Cuba planters have be
gun to look to it as profitable substitute for tn
African slave trade.
From the Mercury, March 2.
We publish from the Alta California the articl
we referred to yesterday relative to the specie
l. H., DE- oh
China and sustained by the British authorities eve
to the shedding of blood. In what an attitude Q
hypocrisy and cruelty does it place that unprncipe
and remorseless government! In Europe and Amer
lea she is Wanting her pretended philanthropy j
her efforts to extrpate slavery, and impertinentl
intermeddIing in the affairs of other government
with that pretence. The coasts of Cuba, Brazil an
Africa are kept under the strictest surveillance b
her cruisers for the suppression Of the slave trade
and the barracoons or slave pens on the coast ar
destroyed, and the negroes liberated while at Hon
Kong British sub ects establish their slave pens, kit
) nap the unoffendng Chinese. and when their cour
trymen attempt to liberate them, they are slaugt
tered by the marines from British man-of- war.
But this may only be a beginning of the enorm
ties, and the Chinese government may be called o
to make restitution for this loss of " British proper
ty," as they were formerly, when the opium ilega
y introduced into their ports, was destroyed. The
may have to submit to invasion and outrage, tn
sack of cities. and the massacre of thousands, BE-
cause they Will not consent to be kidnapped into 81;
very by British merchants. as they were when the
attempted to prevent them from poisoning them wit
opium. Divided and paralyzed as she now is by il
ternecine war, China would fall an easy prey, an
Q British rapacity might readily extort another lara
subsidy of Sycee silver and the cesson of other ell
gible and commanding ports, to place her
the mercy of her usurping neighbors. Such pol
+ cy would not be more surprising more niquito,
than what we have already witnessed in that qua
ter and it would be in admirable keeping with Bri
ish threats and abuse of the Cuban authorities, Fl
countenancing the introduction of negro slaves. f
which these Chinese slaves intended to be IL
: substitutes
i SUPREME CouRT JUDGE.-The telegraph has bro
us the gratifying intelligence of the appointment
John A: Campbell, Esq, to supply the vacancy lat
: ly existing on the Supreme Court Bench of the
States. Our readers will recoIlect that sometin
since, We expressed a wish to see him elevated
that high place.
= AS lawyer, Judge Campbell is unquestionab
hn in y 1911