Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-06-02
sious Is make reply TO It at the time; but under
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The rules Of the House. had no opportunity afford
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& i now ask the attention of the House Tor q lew
moments, while expose one of the most oppres-
sive, cruel and lnonstrous systems that the world
has ever seen carried on by any civilized nation
shall first read few extracts from the daily papers
of the last few weeks among the items OF telegraph
ic and other news may repeat that this report
represents the Coolies in Peru as having hne time
Of it, and as being thriving prosperous and happy.
Whereas in fact it is established that OF those Cool
les who imported in Peruvian ships, thirty eight
per cent.-a little over one third-die on the pas
sage Nor do those carried in American and British
ships fare much better, as these extracts show:
"On the 10th the American ship, Kitty Simpson, from
Swatas and ST. Helena with three hundred and
Asstcs She had ninsthee deaths On he tro hqa
dred and eghythree Asatics She had ninety oea'ns Oh
is Worthy of remark that the number of deaths has
always been proporonate the length of the passage and
omit drawing particular attention to the fact that
ali these Asatics brought here males not single fe
male having arrived among the twenyour thousand and
upwards that have to this island Is not this the
very refinement of cruelty?
African slave trade. The Africans savages whom, 1t
may be said it is charity civze and Chrisanze; the
sons Of refined habits and considerable education
York Herald
intelligence has been received from Havana the 18th in
stant 1t ia reported that two cagOes of had been
landed in Cuba since the last advces and duly disposed Of
goes of Coolies. The ship Challenge, Captain Kinney one
hundred and thirty days from Swaas landed at Ha-
six hundred and twenty Asatics During the pas
sage two hundred and eighty-sx had died"
From the 10th of April 1885" to the 18th instant sew
been received in Cuba for eight years servtude Of which
more than twenty per cent have already @
the s ed e bv
eide disease, being more than onesxth OF the wh"e
number taken board This does not include casualties,
e. houo Hocr #
cargoes Of three four thousand received previous
to the 10th of April 1885, nearly all have persisted It is
ed to add to the heterogeneous mixture Cuban Stock
and to carry out the extended views of British phanhro-
BOSTON, January g. 1s5sNA letter received from Cap
tain Ryan. Of the ship Lion from Hong Kong for calao
Hooper, Of Baltimore Captain Jackson from Macao oso-
Der 5 for Havana, with Coolies at Angler November
and of the Between decks and set ship
fire three times and before they could be subdued the
officers had to shoot fifty Of them"
at Havana great numbers No less than three thousand
were landed from four ships in week They all readily
rived poor condition. which is probably owing to the
Coolies being kept in dirty unks in Swatas. waiting for
lean vessels waiting for cargoes in Swatas alone Or
ders have been sent from Havana twenty thou
sand Coolies. if possibe."-MarcA IL.
Some details, as given in the following statement
from an English paper may be interesting:
"THE TRADE CHINESE CooLIEs.-The frightful NOR
tally of Chinese Board the British ship Duke of Port
land has been the subject OF investigation for several days.
before the Local Marine Board Cornh, Lopdon Mr..
Duncan Dunbar, chairman.
captain Seymour the of the Duke of Portland,
dposed that the ship left Hong Kong with three hundred
and thirty-two Chinese Coolies
He says in his statement, one third had been kid
mapped.
"About two O'Clock the I'd left the shore with my
papers all in order proceeded board the undu to
gel box of musket caps. which was rather short Of
all was right. Vain hope! l had been board five
minutes when the topsail haards had been lie, CO.
doube QUICK me and was b s Captain
boats from the three other ships with whom
acquainted and the of riot and confusion that await
ed my arrival l shall not forget. The Coolies had
taken the opportunity of the mates attention being
pied in making sale and distracted the iron Delaying pins
and armed themselves with what else they could deck
principally rewood and gained Pc session of the poop
and were yelling and shouting in fearful throw
sail haliiards-S
The mutiny was quelled by force, and they were
guarded and confined:
"The third day had the first suicide and from that
date until passed the Straits of Sunda. had average
of about three overheard daily They now also
threatening to burn the ship my Interpreter becoming
alarmed, could not find the rngeaders On the morning
of the 18th discovered plan they had laid to take the
ship. One of the invalids to be thrown
board and during the absence of the boat to pick them
the Coolies to make rush, obtain possession of the
take the ship shore; and the afternoon they
ried their plan out but, quite prepared for them
bnt had average from twelve eighteen irons
for riotous behaviour and attempted suicide.
But could fill volume on this subject and the hor,
and twentyeght Chinese before arriving at the Havana
chiefly from congestive fever it is like the Hong Kong
fever We lost of the think the Cosles brought
the seeds of the disease board with them When they
would eat have tried to force food down their hroas
We were one hundred and fifty days ON our passage from
At the close of the examination of the witnesses the
chairman announced the decision of the board THAT
blame attaches to the owner and master,
neced with the ship That Captain Seymours conduct to
the emgants appears have been kind and attentive and
that possible precauon used by him decrease
the mortality"
Sir, if these results follow where the Coolies are
treated kindly and judiciousy on board Ship what
are you to expect when they are i'll treated? Let
us, however, see how they are treated when landed
in Peru. From publication on the subject of ag-
rculture, guano, &c, by ii. N. Fryatt, Of New Jer-
sey. l read an extract:
"Now you wish to know how all these ships load
ed and thousand tons per day dug and sent from the
Peru and about three hundred Cinnamon from the Cees-
al Empire The former are in the right place; the latter
were passengers that engaged in English ship
try, to labor after their arrival for limited time pay
their passage eighty dolars Instead of being landed in
the captain sold them for three and six years. according
the men, to work out their passage and here they are
slaves tor life. They allowed four dollars month
for their food and one-eghh of dollar per day
labor with pile of guano before them which will last the
next ten years. and long before it is exhausted the aor-
ty Of them will be dead. Each is compelled bring
to the shoot five tons of guano per day. failure
is rewarded with the lash from strong nego and such is
their horror Of the ash and the hopeessness their
dton, that week there less suicides. In
the month of November have heard, fifty of the bodest
of them Joined hands and jumped from the precpice into
the sea- In December there were twenytbrce Suicides.
This is from one in authority In january quite a
Der, but have not learned how many"
Now, there are hundreds of these facts constant.
ly published; or made known, and they do not ex.
cite any attention in this country when if it WAS
known that ten negroes had committed suicide in
one of our slave States it would be published per.