The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-06

eight or ten years some 900 or $4,000 immigrants
chiefly Coolies from Madras and Calcutta, have been
brought INTO Trinidad forming above eighth part
Of entire population and Guiana has been equally
blessed with labor, derived from China Hndos
tan The women also coming we'll % the meu,
and they have learned 70 be prudent aud put money to-
gether. These Coolies and the China returning 70
their own country with all the signs prosperity
desire in their friends TO do they have done The re-
sun OF THIS az Guiana at least that
before long negro labor will not entirely displaced be
made at all events Of secondary Importance In the colony
but here steps the Anti Slavery Society ana tries pa
stop To the system The negro imagined that his EN- an
cipauop was 70 be an emancipation not merely fro
slavery, but from work and BRUSH philanthropy pr
protect him in his zness from the competition OF
the Coolies Not only but British philanthropy thinks
of doing service cooiie, who starves his
country pence day, by preventing him from
ing shilling day In a different country. Tue idea
the neg in this matter of course absurd f
freedom good tor the negro 10 good for the planter
Also II the OF the planters not 10 be projected
with derenta duties why IL the labor Of the negro TO
protected by prohbve eDactmentsy The only Ques-
tn wbsh is worth moments consideration, reates
the negro but the Cooe Is there any wrong done
the COOLER Does he derive any real benefit from the
ystemy Can the system OF Coole immigration in any
regarded modern refinement OF the old slave
that has long abolished far this country
concerneoY Mr. Trollopc says that aborers in any
country cared for closely projected
saved from the usual wants and sorrows incident
aboring classes Tneir clothing their food their house
accommodation, their amount OF work and obligatory pc
Rod OF working with Que master-all these
under government surveillance, aud the planter who
makes Of such labor nearly as much under govern
nent inspection If his estate were COVER nInent pro
perry II, as the British phanthropist would have us,
we " regard slavery the lease of himself for
certain defined period TO which the Cooe agrees
our apprentices are slaves, ndenured clerks slaves
erapts hired for year or more are slaves soldiers and
sailors slaves When the Slavery Society declare
that black coOred aborers brought other
forth an irrelevant truism. No man the earth who
enters into Is free, and In this
Coole or Chipamsn who immigrates to the West per-
iectiy ree he 10 NOT kidnapped he embarks OF his
own free WILL he fudls his term OF labor he makes
money and he returns TO bis friends To incite them fol-
ow his example and TO tell them OF the he has
ceved. When he arrives in the colony where he
work he s to estate until government officer re-
that there proper houses him his com
rades 10 occupy There be hospital the eatate,
and regular doctor with sufficient salary The rate Of
wages and the hours of work are stipulated; and
though the contract Is for Eve yesrs Cooie can leave
the estate ut the end Of the nrs three, transferring his
services to any other MASTER and finding himself at
end Of bis i've years entitled TO Q free passage home,
whittier he returns and often having his purse ned with
what is TO him great wealth No English aborer IS more
,tta,n0 to the immigration the Anti Slavery Sociesy haze
cone as much by1d their proctnce as me Ant Corn Lap
league haa Chosen 70 s N pc,maneNce with tie uso Of
To throw the blame Of all the ruin that overtaken
planters their azness their ignorance and their
travagsnce. is true that planters have been indscreet
and have attempted TO their way without adequate
resources, but nothing be shallow than fix
the responsibility Of which has overwhelmed great
and small discreet and ndscreet alike
and feebeDess Of few Mr.. Trolope this pitny
epough-"Iwas only the small men who fell or they
who may be supposed have been hitherto living an
income raised TO unjustly high pitch Ask the Glad
stone family what proceeds have from their
property snce the protective duty abolished. Let
LORD Howard de Walden say how he has Jared" Il is
that the capitalist should be considered as well as
the aborer and the result OF the Cooe system OF imm
grafton shows clear gain not emily TO the Cooe also
TO the planter Trinidad for example, is large island,
OF winch , Du. oomPsta.vey small part cultivated,
We have already stated that 10 900 IL Coolies
from Hindoetan have been imported, and we will now
state the consequence In two years-namely, from
1855 to 1s67-"s imports increased by third,
and its exports by two thirds" At least Mr.. Troope
but not quite sure that understand him,
Tor be Immediately proceeds to explain himself
which is scarcely reconcieable with hn original state
Coolies three hogshe ads Of sugar where without them
only produced one" In that would appear that
the exports have been reblsd rather than by
two thirds Perhaps ought not to expect srithmetca
accuracy from writer who glores in not being able TO
appreciate statistics but whichever figure may be the
correct at all events accept trustworthy
author e statement Of what be and heard, that
the difference t, Trinidad is the difference between abse-
lutte distress AMI absolute prosperity.
Few persons in England have realized 10 themselves
what planter u.s. and what q prodigious business he
snS der all in ons has ssn III
the risks incident 70 each of these branches Of bust
Dess, and TO be conversant with all their details
FIRST Of all he has to grow his crop Of canes, which
require the most unremng attention through long
es Of months the takug fourteen months before
they reach maturity When the crop ready he s
position Of tho wheat grower sends his corn 70
the miller Of the cotton grower who dspoees Of his
bales the manufacturer OF calico He must himself
turn manufacturer, and that in branch Of business
which requires ample and complicated machinery. He
must have his boiling houses and hs trash houses his
water power and bis steam power his pans and
his nterng bags. He must not only make sugar
make There division OF labor. the planter is
involved in an accumulation Of trades which makes him
peculiarly sensitive the fluctuations of the labor market
and the sliding Of rival tariffs In the old times he did
almost always he managed 70 live very comfortably.
Within the last quarter Of cestury however, he has had
to face Of difficulties which we'll deserve
sideration. First OF all came emancipation IN which he
suddenly deprived Of his slaves the compensation
which he got for their freedom being nothing when
compared the actual value OF their services Emsn
cpaion played havoc the labor market. have
seen and te planter In the greatest straits when
free trade into vogue and abolished the protection
which had hitherto been allowed free grown sugar
Emancipation Effected In the pamy days Of protec
ton. and satisfaction the planter that he
could he would be asked 70 enter into
neck and neck competition with other planters who I'd
slaves II may be- indeed doubted whether we should
have emancipation II free trade had been
ried 6rst There persons bold eAough to maintain
that free labor will always hold its against slave
bor and surpass It, but be this the fact not will be
admitted that the position OF the planters when free trade
q most cruel one. 1t just At the moment
when they in the greatest extremss for the
free labor when negroes the moss perfect
enjoy men OF their deness when the coolies had
the labor the lowest depth Of dsorganizs-
ton and there was not sign Of recovery that the aoo
ton Of protection came % PROSTATE the planters utterly
An immense number fell before the storm Nothing could
them, and for time seemed II there very
little chance for their successors, who obtained
without debt and with abundance Of capital Al lat
resort the idea Of coolie immigration Harteds only
capable Of defeino the final oasaarophe 7usidad
hds been sdred ts noy has Guiana ana just
Daica Grenada and other islands Isrvin0 them.
,ees in Tie same dsretson up rscs TIE Anti Sdnyy Society
to declare that the labor Of the black froteced
AND nat the Hndoo grossly injured oher he asked
eigrate and hind himself for fee years. jamaica has
been PECULIARLY tAis repcs there the nro
TIE oolOred population Immensely prependzdte TIE
srhe and they hare their cay ne government of the island
In round numbers there 800 900 bdos 70 O00 oolored
people and only Is 900 schis IN jamaica that tie dis
sr'Oason Of race anso1nt oorsdr'ng the force Of the oored
people to dsoddncy uy nearly attained by tie African
breed go happens that by constitution Of the stand
which y blessed with King, Lords and Commons In the
shape OF Governor, Council and House Of Assembly
every man In Jamaica may who pays either tax or
rent the only pressure which put upon such privilege
being this, that the claim TO vote made on ten
shilling stamp In Barbados, the oldest Of our West In
dian settlements, and hitherto the most thriving thew
have managed matters that coloed man ros al ali
II true tha every is qualified vote who Is the
owner II freehold, but in Island where every inch q