New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-15
LORD BROUGHAM AND WHITE
ALAVGRY.

SLAVERY.
Lord BroughAm appears TO be one of the few
men who neither wear out nor rust out He has
been again bringing the question of the abuses OF
West Indian labor before the British Government,
with all the zeal and energy Of the Harry Brougham
of twenty years ago Not only did the octogena-
risn Abohtonist, in speech, quoted upon another
mage. which was delivered on the anniversary OF
the emancipation Of the negroes in the British
colonies, set forth the results Of that measure, and
denounce 81 the wild and guilty phsntasy that man
scan hold property in msn;' but a few days pre-.
yiously at the head of deputatiOn to the Duke of
Newcastle the Colonial Secretary, be exposed the
devices which ingenious avarce has contrived for
procuring the substance Of Slavery without the
abhorred shadow Of its name The greed Of plant
ers is not less now than it was in the good old
times when every man could "lsrrup his niger,
with none to modest aud mske him afraid; but 1t
has now to disguise itself under some fair seeming
prete1t, and with some well-sounding name. The
introduction Of voluntary emigration from Africa
was at one time favOiite form Of wrapping up
the ugly fact that unwilling labor WAS being
again sought at its original fountan.he In 1856
FIVE hundred Africans were introduced into the
Mauritus, and it is said that il was at this time
that Bonaparte adopted his scheme Of replenshing
the French colonies with negro labor, the volun-
tsry principle of which was exempl6ed BY the
horrors of the "Regioa Cell" while its political
possibilities illustrated NJ tho hnl'ino NJ thu
good little King Of Portugal in the matter Of the
&" Charles At Georges"
But though there is no question that the Emf
graft IN Act permit. the introduction Of African Ia
borers nor yet that such have been imported to
limited extent it is against the abuses Of the Cody
trade, both East Indian and Chinese, that the
weight of British public opinion is invoked at this
time. And not without good reasOn-since the
facts alleged as TO the mortality attending the voy-
age and following the residence Of the laboren in
the islands, show that the Cody system, even I'M
der British auspices 10 hardly to be distinguished
in it's incidents, while il asts, from Slavery itself.
Mr.. Chamerevzow, the Secretary Of the British and
Foreign Anti Slavery Society, states the mortality
among the Chinese Coolies on the voyage from the
Central Flowery Empire to Jamaica, to be from IL
to 60 per cent-but bad enough It the low
sage at the highest On the same authority
the mortality in FIVE years in Jamaica is stated
TO have been no less than 30 per cent-and
Sir Edward Lytton, when Colonial Secretary, put
it down at IS per cent So that, although there
may BE- some legal supervision of the treatment Of
the Coolies, and some protection Of their rights un-
der their contracts emigration, there is not much
70 choose between their psrsonh condition and that
of negro slaves from the beginning Of their contract
to its erd Their condition differs from that Of chatte
slaves TO be sure, in that their servitude has IN
end, and in that they are paid certain amount Of
wages Their wives and children, if they have
any, DO not derive from them the heritage Of hope
lees chains, and provision is made for their return
home at the end of their term Of service if they
please But iftke abuses Of the system produce
such fatal results as the above statistics indicate,
but small proportion Of the Coolies can survive to
perceive these advantages.
The Chinese Cody trade appears to dider in no
particular Of cruelty from the African slave trade,
while the transit of the poor wretches is in prog
ress Even the great mortality admitted on board
the emigrant ships BY no means represents it,
whole extent. The proportion is even greater on
the coast while they are in the hands Of their own
countymen, during the making up Of the cargoea
The most isgrant receptions are prscticed on the
ignorance Of both the Chinese and East Indians,
which is perfect in the particular Of geography in
order to procure recruits Another source Of
moral mischief is the difficulty Of procuring Any
due proportion Of women This 10 next to impos-
sibe in China, and difficult in India, though
efforts to remedy the evil there have been
in some degree succs ssful. And in consider.
ing this Coot question, We sholli bear in
mind that those Coolies who are carried to
the British islands are comparatively free and
happy songsde Of their lees fortunate fellows Who
are consigned to the tender mercies of Cuban slave
drivers. and to the fetid horrors Of the Peruvian
euano islands. The average life of . Cubs slsve,
after arriving at the age Of full work is but ten
years and thst of Cody s,il less II 10 affirmed |
that Of those imported Into Cuba, ten years ago,
rot one is lef So that there is no doubt that this
is business the abolition Of which demands the It
b nton and cooperation Of all humane minds every.
where, to procure its abolition if it can 90 b resu.
sted as to DO away with its vile concomihats
Another grievance which Lord Brousham and
he 1aputstion of tha Rr,tish and Eor~is, NJ |