The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1853-11-02
COOLIES IN CUBA.

tian virtue; and philanthropists are a
most amiable and excellent variety Of
the human race. But their view of
things is. at times, so onr.sidcd, and
their conduct so inconsistent, that the
uncharitable and malicious are fire.
qncntly heard, denying them the pos
session of those good qualities on
which they most pride themselves
They are. in fact. SO taken up with
their ncighhor'S affairs that they have
no time to attend to their own. They
are So anxious to pull the mote out Of
their brother's eye, that they have no
leisureto consider about The cam tlat
is in their own eye. And they SO de.
light in doing good, tn It they some
times do not hesitate to tolerate or
perpetrate evil. for the sake Of the
grain of good which they hope to cx
tract from it.
There, for instance, is John Bull the
Corypheus of these people. a. d the
worthy representative Of all their vir
tues, and vices. and fnihlcs, and ccccn
trictes, and inirmities, whose eve is
everIom the watch for the wrrng.doinGs
of his neighbors. and whose tongue is
ever ready to proclaim them to the
world;-wond not Il stranger. unac-
quaintcd with the history Of Johns
career. and wi ncssing his holy horror
of such backslidcrs be almost unavod
ably led to suppose that the conduct
of John himself must be at least as
pure and immaculate rs that of an
eremite? Would he not be astonish
ed ut hearing that the very crimes
which SO much excited Johns indicna.
tion. and which he denounced so fierce.
ly, were 10 certain extent habituallv
connivcd at or pcrrrtratcd by himself:
and that tho said John, instead of he.
ing. as he had in his simplicity sup.
posed, man Glowing righteousness
and hating iniqnity." was in reality
nothing more than an imruacnt pre-.
tender,-a Phari~acal hypncrite?
While John is sympalhsinp with
the s,lffGrings of "Unclc Tom" and
declaiming about the horrors Of Anne
rican Slavery. and maintaining squad.
rons on the Coast of Africa. and the
coast of Cuba, for the suppression or
one species Of Slave trade, and one
species of slavery, another slavery and
another slave trade arc hcing patron
lied by him; the crnclt;cs and abomi.
nations Of which fall little short Of
those which he affects to he lahorjno
so zealously to cXtcrminatc. Bulls
notions of slavery as well as Of Justice
appear indeed to he somewhat ccccl,.
trio. 1t is not SO much slavery in eve.
ry shape and form, that cxcitcs his
aversion, ms African slavery and nc
deems it sound equity to transfer for n
while to anotncr branch of the human
family, those fettcrs and those miscrics
which the negro race has so long
endured. He had been charged with
wishing, to Atiricanize Cuba. but it
rather appears from facts that he is
seeking tosAsianize her! Experience
had taught him that the wants Of tho
labor market in the West Indies and
South America, where the great sup.
ports Of the Slave-tradc, and that unless
some means wcrc devised fer the sup
ply OF those wants, his efforts to pn,
down that ahominablc traffic, must
completely. His thoughts reverted TO
the condition of India and Western
Asla-to the density and misery of
their popnlation.and it occurred to him
that the wrethcd coolies, as they arc
termed, might be induced TO desert
their homes in sufficient numbers TO
come from the distant East, TO pariici-
pate in the sutferngs and SORROWS of the
colored race. The idea was approved
and adopted. Ships were encouraged
~ ei'ssase III me ne" tri''lr. falSrh"od
e"o eAassc'ut'.'' were employed I"
oeooy ''ie s''ip'e orr n'a' rom MS KIN
oiCu anu C'ulllTS. Economists rtIDI.