The Evansville daily journal., 1856-12-29

tEF The CoOle trade, more inhuman than
the African slave trade, in all its attendant |
is now pursued to an extent, and
in a manner which ought to shock the sensi
bilities of the christian world, which seems
to create no more offence to public
sentiment and feeling than the African trade
did in the eighteenth century; proving that
it is not so much the thing itself, as the man
ner in which the public may be led to
view it. The whole world has had its sym
pathies awakened for the blacks till it has
forgotten the claims of all other portions of
humanity Three English ships have re-
Gently landed at Havana six thousand seven
hundred Coolies, who were sold into slavery
for eight years, under what is gingerly de-
nominated an apprenticeship, to satisfy easy
consciences. The Coolie labor is designed to
supply the exhausted African slave labor
In the sugar business where labor for por-
ton of the year is continued night and day,
it is matter Of pecuniary calculation with
the MASTER whether it be more profitable to
kill slave by oyer-work in one or two
years, and purchase a substitute; or preserve
him by milder service, for five or ten years
This is determined by the cost Of the labor
er. If slaves can be bought for S400, they
can be made to pay by working them to
death in two or four years more than the cost
of a new slave. But if slaves be worth $1,000,
it costs more to buy substitute than can be
ground out Of the muscles and sinews Of the
slave in possession; and consequently he is
kept in working condition from mere selfin-
terest. As Coolies are cheap, and the supply
plentiful, the task master will find it more to
his interest to use them up in year, and sup
Iply his wants, by new purchases. But if
they should cost as much as black slaves for
| life, he cannot under the system retain them
but eight years, and in that period he will be
sure to extract from them all that life can
yield In all Of its conditions and relations
! this nelarious system Of slavery is more alb
horrent and barbarous than the African slave
trade ever was in its worst periods Yet the
ships of philanthropic England and purtani-
cal New England, are pursuing this trade in
! uuliau He WIFI Us much aTuOT, anu Win as
little remorse as they catch whales and her
ring-under the full sanction of their gov
ernments-and without rebuke from the
mock philanthropy that fills the world with
Its cxecrations of the mild form Of American
slavery. To reopen the African slave trade
has been denounced everywhere as an outrage
upon the feelings Of civilized humanity. But
the African in his own wlds is the loves
savage-a brute as far as humanity can de
scend in its scale-without a sense above those
of the OK; and his enslayement is but trans
fer from savage to Christian master. The
China Coolie is partially cigilized-has some
notion of personal rights--a sense Of the ties
of kindred and family; though subject of f;
rigid government, he bas been free within
narrow sphere, and master of the fruits Of hi,
own labor; he has 2. soul into which the iror
of servitude may enter and kill the body
the task-master should spare it from death by
toll. This inhuman traffic cries aloud upor
the civilization and religion of the age to ar
rest it, without being needed by them, OF
receiving sympathy.