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

trUtail, had many heiehbors Who had been a'
successful in San FHncisco aud in bcmeIara
Il is irue that the annual transport Of Chinesc
ia our West India Islands has not hitherto
,,n,ch exceeded ZOO mon; but that is not The
hult Of the chinese. The kidnarpine trade j.
luo,e profitable and the leg naie traffic is clog
ed with unnecessary Official oims. Any Qua
who reads the Chinese passenger act will sec
that the object of the trainers OF the statute
must have been 10 put down the trade; the
rorms are eneIcus and inefficient. The one sin
,,le and sufficient provision would Lave been io
have government emigration agent on board
ev-,uship, 10 make him report all the circum.
stances of the voyage and to hold luI respon-
sl5e for The facis Of his report. The transport
tysIe t,,,sinhl and would well afford the ex-
tcnse Of such an official We have heard the
heuris of great mercantile houses say that il is
pnly unier such guarantee against miSrepre.
seniatien that they would trust their characters
10 this brsnch of business. But philanthro-
pits OF past age must not be allowed 10
bring their eighteen century notions TO bear up
Oh these poor Cinnamon and Indians, and shut
them W in their own country 10 s'arve, for
;car thes should not have first rate accommo-
datious on bcard ship.
1--WE ousht to apologize, perhaps, for sugges.
saing that the interests OF mere pale face should
,.scccire any consideration; but we must take
Leave 10 observe, that as the Indian and Chinese
coolies arc destitute Of honest employment so
the planters our West India possessions are
destitute Of labor While the highest aspia,
.tions of q Chnaman or Hindoo in his own
country, to gain two shllings week, the plan
ters in our possessions contend for his labor at
atl,e wages Of dollar day. In these islands,
,he lcsitivated lands are running back to jungle
for want of labor, and the old population Of
blacks Is dying out from epidemic disorders
sweeping over free, an idle, and an improyi-
dent race. There is a starving population on
one shore and the most fruitful islands Of the
sAyorll vegctating TO waste upon another; yet
that ocean must not he crossed. Stringent
British laws keep watch over both shores. The
same British ship which carries, 1000 soldiers
esball only carry 5000 tawny laborers. A hap.
NJ English boy may be kicked and cufted
through every climate and seek his fortune
where fate may drive him; but an African must
gather cowries in slavery and starve on seaweed;
'wChinaman must feed on vermin and die of in
aanition; a iindoo must wait till his turn comes
to be swept away by pestiience-and all Tor tear
lest he should have to put up with the stralten-
cd confinement in transport ship which an
sTnelish marine bears cheertuily. This is not
philahthropy it is philanthropy run mad.
sT,urke says that men with good -humored faces
have set their hands to documents that have
made Europe sroan. We have men among us
who have hearts Of wax and faces beaming with
humanity. yet who do more practical harm in
irving 20 do good than was ever wished for by
"A drunken Roman Emperor, or imprecated by
misanthTope in melodrama.
From the London Times of the 20th.
The second duties Of life are so numerous and
,so varied that, although Jealous man may wish
a wise man cannot hope, to leave none oil them
unperfol1netl We know what our primary Gu,
ties are; they admit Of no parlcy and no pro
crstination But we cannot walk the streets
in this metropolis without seeing obligations
which distract US by their multitude. Had we
been all earnest and active, we might have pro
vided labor for the class whence comes that
poor. bcndizencd creature who lcers at us in the
thronged thoroughiare The seats III the parks
provided Tor the rest of those who walk to rec
reate, are monopolzed by the houseleSs and the
wretched; they lnger there by day, and they
sleep there in these summer nights: in the win
ter they must huddlc and shiver elsea here. We
might do something TO remedy this
The Regstrara, General tells us that our
neighbors are dying around us in usual numl ers
and we have been weekly allowing silly people
TO chatter and noisy engineers to fight while we
ought to have pressed on the work. We take
up the day labor sheet in any large manuiacto'
ry, and find half the signatures are crosses. 1t
is our fault that these men have not the full use
OF their faculties, that they are dumb and deaf
to absent friends, and blind to the distant mon
itor, We enter a court of law, and some such
scene as this is going on; Does that little byo
know the nature of an oath?" Examine
him Mr.. Associate" Little boy
where do bud people go to wien they die"
10 hell please, sir" 'fhat's right; good boy;"
''swear him, crer." Perhaps we finish our
walk by turning into Exter Hail. where we
hear that the Divine wrath is kindled against
ms as n nation because we have not converted
the Asantees to Christianity; or into the House
Of Lords, where We find an eloquent Peer de-
monstrating that our fleets and our armies
should 90 fDr,h and compel all the world to put
away slavery.
The attempt to discharge one Of the least
imperative OF these secondary duties has cost us
more money and more English lives than the
whole OF the Criincan war. The sailors who
have suecilmbcd to fevers on the coast OF Africa
would have manned q channel fleet; the money
spent upon that African squadron would have
built two channel fleets. We have been
brought almost into conflict with America, and
we have exchanged sharp words with France.
Our remark has been signal i'll success and
general declaration from the whole world that
our interference has been an nsolence, and our
motives entirely selfish. We may wrap
ourselves upon our virtue and our ma,
tonai C, ,eit, but it is true ha: we have failed
it istrue that we have only aggravated the evil;
it is true that we have given an unnatural rela,
tive Importance to this secondary duty; it is
true that we have pursued it to the neglect Of
others more practicable and more imperative.
II seems to be true that we are about in reck-
less despair at our failure to sacrifice primary
duties to what has almost taken the form ola
mania, and to do great wrong in the hope
that wc may obtain little good. In some re-
marks upon this subject yesterday, we spoke
generally Of the position OF the British posses
Sons within the Tropics with reference to Asi.
ATTIC and African labor. The subject is too i'm
portart 10 be left entirely in the hands of those
who are fanatical on the subject Of the blacks,
and We wish to fortify those observations by
reference to particular colony Let US take
Mauritius. 1t is the finest island in the world.
Aiexandcr Dumas, who upon this occasion has
some knowledge Of what lie writes about, has
described it so yiyidIy that the French people
think Of it rs a,lost paradise. 1t has an inter
esting population, for we see there, upon a
small, scale, several problems which at all
times have troubled the world, gradually wor-
king themselves out. The old race ofslayes and
their thorough. bred black children and grand
children are nearly extinct. Every cholera OF
Smallpox epidemic sweeps them off by scores