The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-07-28

labOr'is and are well behaved. quiet citizens;
but there an not enough Of them, and there is
nO.gnccuSsiOn.
They leave the cane fields as soCn rs they
have gained little money and engage in small
branches Of commerce; having made little
more money thus, they 50 back to their own
country; ier there are but few women Of their
own race to tempt them to stay. Thus the
planters are supplied with just sufficient labor
TO enable them to SpafSely cultivate some por-
tonS Of the iSand the bulk Of the i aud is waste
aud jungle; hut the labor maI ket is kept so high
that every hhnIer going out is certain 10 make
f'riune. There are some intellectS so tho
roughly twisted by this morid "melanlhropl"
that they probably regard this state of things
with a secieie pleasure. Meanwhile, Cuba ie-
juices. I hc dear labor that : forced upon oHr
:ree colonies is weight in The race ol competi-
tion. bE
II enalAes HE Cuba planter TO pay high phi.
ces ir Af,ican slaves, and l.od out Incentives
10 the risk Of an illici: cargo. Thus the negro
undergocS the mid,8 passage in order that GER
tain ilindooS may enjoy protected monopoly
Of the labor market at Mauritius, Cnwise in
our generation. we weigh one scale while we
are tightening the other. And to this the in
iustire committed upon those Indians and Chi
namen who are kept from his high mart Of la
bor, and we see how foTiSh have been the do
ings OF eur impractical philanthropSts.
The true policy, il you would complete with
Cuba slavery, is not to seek for gr evanceS and
make conn ltintS that the colored races Of man
kind are subjects to the common lot Of laborng
humanity, but to people the islands OF the torIid
zones with Aslatcs and Africans labOrins in
freedom. Instead Of crying, stop the trans
port OF laboIcrs," the cry Of the philanhropiStS
should be, strain every nerve to increase that
transport aud to render it effective. Do not
create impedInents and call them regulations;
do not regard with hostility the efforts OF the
cotored race to compete in freedom with their
compatriots in slavery; do not invent oppropri
GUS nicknameS for conditions oflabor which are
more easy than those proposed TO your soldiers
and less enduring than those imposed upon your
own midule class countrymen proceeding to
India.
Work with the men who have pecunmry in
terest in putting down slavery; aid them in
with the Spaniards and Americans
who buy and sell and traffic in mankind, be rea.
sonabe enough to admit that Chinaman or
llindoo must be pressed by the same ncceSsi-
ties to labor which coerce your own white coun-
trymen; and acknowledge that the lot even OF
an 4 hican cannot be TO luXuriatG in paradise
of unearned plenty. Fence them rouud with
all necessary securities against the cupidity Of
bad men; give them greater securities tlan you
gave to the Irish when they crowded your un-
healthy ships fleeing from famine; but do no wall
mp thit stream OF hungry emgrantS, do not kill
these black men with your III Judged Kindness,
Or saclicc great imperial interest to lalse
lnl maudln sentiment. Mere vituperative dec !
amation is an easy, popular, and a useless
thing; instead Of this, men who would be useful
to their kind should help us in council, and
should aid us to discover how that which must
be done well and safely done.