The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-17

All sAlDgs otAnB ConSautrtc, ZIG ctesc VI
sfiairs in our Western Territories is anything
but satisfactory, and unless the government
takes active measures to improve it, either
amicsb|y or by force, we will find our interests
In that region very materially affected at this
most critical time. and very probably find our
selves engaged in q costly and unnecessary
Indian war. At present, at all events, every
thing tends in that direction.
The New Cooais Slave Trade In Ergiand-A
Hint to the Sons sf william WlISsrfsroe.
The London Times tells the sons of William
Wilberforce that they have succeeded to the in
heritance of an exhausted mine, where the ore is
all worked out; but that though 1t may be, per.
haps, q pious, flial duty to dig and delve
in the old spot, the opportunity for great re-
suits is gone.
An occasion for the use of this smile was
found in the recent attack of the Bishop of
Oxfcrd-who is son of William Wilberforce-
upon the coolie slave trade and the new French
system Of African emigration. With selfsatis-
fed air, the Times assumes that "stories of the hor
rors Of the middle passage, and the crack Of the
planters whip fail heavily on no Englishman's
conscience;" and that, therefore, every Briton
can afford "to look black man steadily in the
face and to tell him that, like us, he is creature
born to live by labor" On this ground it sets
forth to defend the modern phase of the slave
trade, which would transport Hindoos and
coolies to till the tropical fields of Mauritius
and the British West Indies. "The shores of
India" it tells US, "and the coasts of China are
crowded with congestion of population" and
that the true policy Of the sons of William Will
berforce is 'to people the islands of the torrid
freedom" In evidence of the wisdom of this
policy, it cites the fact that the Chinese are
migrating in q constant stream to California
and Australia, to Singapore and Borneo.
We do not agree with the Times in believing
that the sons of Wilberforce have succeeded to
an exhausted mine. On the contrary, there is
abundant evidence in the schemes of the present
day that the mine is as rich as ever it was, and
that the present generation can get out as much
ore as did the past. But in order to do 30 they
must 60 back to the old and true vein of the
mine, and not follow the false lead that has car
ried them into sterile workings. The true mine
that Wilberforce, Clarkson and young Harry
Brougham opened, was the attack upon the sys-
tenn of carrying thousands Of Involuntary emf
grants from Africa to the islands and both con.
inents of America AS long as they fought the
Infamous African slave trade they had the sym
pathies of the civilized world with them; and
nation after nation abandoned the traffic But
when from their rich workings they branched
off to dictate to other countries the terms of
their own social organizations to interfere in
the relations Of master and man, employer and
laborer, in communities where change might
not affect England, but might ruin the recipient
of their interference; when they claimed the
right to exercise jurisdiction upon the sea, over
the flag of ever nation, then it was they followed
a sterile lead in the mine they had opened, and
soon ceased to bring out ore.
By following this false policy of Exeter Hall;
by attacking the social status of every country
which might not square with their self consti-
tuted standard Of right and wrong, England
has estranged every nation from her, and done
more evil than she has good. This is one of
the reasons that induces the London Times to
turning against these errors il has rushed into
the opposite extreme. In defending the emf
grafton trade in Hindoos and Chinese, il has
brought back to the sons of William WILDER
force the old mine, from which they can get as
much ore, and as good, as ever their father did.
In this trade the crimp takes the place of the
slave dealer, and the Hindoo or the Chinese is
as much a slave as the purchased African. The
difference in the term of service is only appa-
rent and not real, and as far as true humanity
is involved il is decidedly in favor of the slave
trade. The Asiatic gives up his liberty to his
master for five years; the African loses his for
life. With the latter the promptings Of interest
lead the employer to preserve the existence of
the slave; with the former they prompt him to
get all he can out Of his servant during his bond
ship. Where the Asiatic emigrant is brought,
the community in generation or two is filed
with aged and overworked paupers where the
African slave is, pauperism among them Is I'M
known.
That such are the true relative results of the
African and the coolie slave trade is already
being developed. The countries TO which they
have been taken are already beginning TO re-
ject them As temporary slaves they are not
rejected 10 so great an extent as where they
come as free emigrants But this IL only be-
cause the trade is new and the evil Is not 90
soon developed. A generation of exhausted and
pauper laborers does not yet weigh upon Mau-
ritius or Demarara But California has, by
direct legislation, prohibited their importation.
In Australia adeep agitation has begun, with
the same object In Bornco Brooke, the Brit
ish Rajah, has been obliged to take sangui-
nary vengeance upon the Chinese, and to de-
prive them Of all political privileges. Expe-
rience is demonstrating that the Asiatic, as we'll
as the African, is incompetent TO live in large
.,c,ol LII.