The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-07-23

ct itself that the House should know that II was on
no light l-considered grounds that the government
had discouraged emigration 10 the West Indies from these
two countries The attempt 10 obtain supply OF labor
from Africa had beep made in possessions and ON
the Kroo coast but without The experiments,
which had been tried with the greatest care, had
trely failed and he satisfied that any extensive ef
forts To procure negroes would nflbly lead To the os
ering of internal system OF slavery in Africa IL
might be said it could do no harm TO take the negro
away from domestic slavery, and transport him free
laborer 10 colonies. That might be true II they
looked only TO the Of an individual negro; but
what would be the result His place would be imme-
diatey filled up by somebody else This would increase
the value of the negro, and speedily revival of all
the horrors incident TO intestine and internal slave
trade The greatest caution ought TO be exercised before
they took steps which might lead TO such monsrous
suits He had been gratied beyond expression by the
he had received during the last two de-
scribng the growth OF legitimate traffic the western
coast Of Africa Commerce. peace civilization, and let
him add Christianity, spreading in those regions
A recent communication from the governor Of Sierra Lee
stated that he had fifty coming down the
river laden with native produce and it remarkable
how the expectation palm oil and other products
increasing They were, therefore. length exercising
substantial influence the internal condition of Africa,
and they ought to have how they did anything TO
mar such fair prospects With regard to the importation
of labor from China doubt the Chinese made very
useful and Industrious laborers and il they could be n
ducel o out to British Guiana and 10 other parts of the
West Indies, they would be valuable auxliaes to the
cultivator Ii most important that the rule requiring
that certain number of women should accompany the
male Chinese emgrans should be adhered to. AT one
time there less than twenty thousand Of those
emigrants and only three women in the colony of Vic
toria They all abores, and the state OF things be-
shocking TO the moral feelings of the colonss that
they adopted peculiar plan for keeping Chinese eigants
out OF the colony They imposed tax OF tl0 upon
every Chinese emigrant that ntot But that plan
failed because neighborng colonies did not adopt IT, and
the emigants having obtained entrance into Them
contved by indirect means to pass into the colony OF
Victoria Her Majestys government had received IRON
attempt induce Chinese by government agency
to emigrate from China, because il would nfably pro-
duce system of fraud and violence of the most repre-
hensve character The government held the whole ques
ton to be OF such importance that they instructed
Lord Elgn, his going out TO China to avail himself
OF every opportunity of obtaining correct and npreju
diced information it, and he Nlr Labouclere could
his honorable friend ON the part OF the govern
that if he could his way to plan for enconr
aging Chinese emigration to colonies without intro
ducing evils of NEST alarming magnitude he should
ioice aoptit His honorable friend had said that there
several minute regulations with regard to the coolies
which operated checks to their emigration He seem
ed to think that it grievance that the master OF
cody Of colonies should be compelled to
him to his native country but that matter OF stpula
ton between the master and the Indian government which
might be very difficult to get rid of He Mr abouchcre
had written to the Indian government, requesting them
to give their most serious consideration to the matter
and he inferred from their there some proba
bty to their relaxing that rule They had however,
always attached the greatest importance to it. because
they apprchensyc that the coolies might be taken
in They thought it was only fair to the coolies that
after long residence that of ten in the col
oy they should be furnished with the of return
ing their country. He should be very glad if it
should be found possible consistently with the interests
Of those poor people, to relax the rule. His honorable
friend had said that although the French authorities
mitted twice many coolies to be conveyed in ship
the British authorities permitted to be conveyed in ship
of similar dimensions the mortality in the British
greater than in French ships employed in the conveyance
coolies Ii that true, it certainly astonish
ing but he (Alr. Labouchere) had been informed that
any relaxation Of the rules in that respect would endangel
the lives of the coolies He could his honorable
friend however that he would pay earnest attention to
that important subject and would cndeavor to relax such
OF the existing restrictions could be safely relaxed
anything could increase the desire of her Majestys gov
eminent to consult the wishes of the people of British
Guiana would be the temperate tone of their petition
and the Importance Of dscouragng the horrors of the
slave trade in other countries Cheers
the House Of Lords the 9th of july Lord Boug-
said he found he had exaggerated the number of free
negroes about be conveyed to the French colonies from
the coast of Africa He understood that the number
not twenty thousand he had stated but ten thousand
He that scheme for the revival of the slave
trade would obtain the assent of the Emperor of the
French and he also felt confident that would
gard such scheme with more suspicion than his noble
friend, Lord Clarendon. 1t must be admitted that there
was the greatest difference between carrying off free
groes whatever they might be called to slave colo
ny, and carrying them to colonies in which slavery
abolished Yet regarded the Africans although
they might be carried to colonies in which slavery
abolished yet any scheme Of this kind ought to be viewed
with distrst and to be most carefully and scrupulousy
watched.
The Earl Of Shaesbury said that misundcrstand-
ing existed with regard to deputaton that recently
waited upon the First Lord Of the Treasury this subject
The main object of that deputon to represent some
facts connected with the increase of the slave trade and
the necessity of rcpessing it, not much on the coast
of Africa as by means of additional gunboats and steam
ers on the shores Of Cuba The want OF free labor in
of the colonies certainly matter of discussion
among that deputaon and gentleman gave opin-
ion that subject But far as he he Earl of Shaes-
buryl and others concerned their opinion that
endeavor set foot scheme for carrying free
groes from the cost of Africa would be, to all nents
and purposes revival of the slave trade, the most
cursed crime that perpetrated
The Earl of Malmesbury thought that If it could be
clearly shown that the conveyance Of free negroes to free
colonies would lead to revival of the slave trade there
philanthropy and was however worthy ofcon-
sideation, when millions Of elsewhere lying
uncutvated for want Of negro labor whether the
to be always confined to the shores of Africa He
trusted that their ordshps and the government would not
take it for granted that any efforts experiments in the
direction which the French government taking
must inevitably result in the revival OF the horrors Of the
slave trade.
The Earl Of Clarendon had made inquiry into the mat
ter in consequence Of the speech delivered by his noble
and learned friend and he found that the condition Of
the assent OF the French to the contract
that should be OF free aborers and that
the negroes should be sent TO those colonies where labor
was wanted IT intended to take all possible securi
ties against abuses bnt he agreed with his noble and