New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-18

engraft upon our already disorganized
society this system of coolie labor
is one of these dangers. We have
on more than one occasion, warned our
readers against too hastily embracing system
which has so little to commend itself to public
appreciation. The system of slavery was first
introduced in the New World by an ill-direoted
effort of philanthropy. To relieve the suffer-
ings of the enslayed Indian, Las Casas sue
ceeded in importing the African slave into the
West Indies. New England was not slow to
avail herself of the advantages offered by the
traffic and was one of the principal agents in
fixing the system upon Southern institutions.
The negro was enslayed for the supposed
benefit of the Indian. It is now proposed
to introduce a new form of slavery for
the Chinese in order to elevate the negro. We
consider the proposition wrong in itself,
and for that reason oppose it. It may be
said that the coolie freely enters into the
contract, and therefore that it cannot be
wrong to enforce it against him But con-
tract made under false inducements cannot
sanctify the wrong done to the coolie. And
even if it could, the effect upon our own civ
ilization would prove so deleterious that we
feel compelled to oppose the introduction of
these people amongst us. The experience of
our neighbors in the West Indies does not, in
our opinion, justify us in following their
example. A few land-holders may derive
temporary benefit from the employment of
this labor, but it will be at the expense Of the
general good, and will prove ultimately detri-
mental to themselves; for no one can receive
permanent benefit from system which will
introduce such new disturbing element
amongst those which already sufficiently agi-
tate the country. We want no mongrel races
amongst us. 1t is to our interest to have
homogeneous population, whose sympathies
and interests will be common, and not an
tagonistic In this way only can we expect
to maintain peace at home and command re-
spect abroad We should not envy the chronic
agitations which aflict our neighbors, where
the mongrel races can fix upon no principle
of government and where morals are cor
rupted with the deterioration Of public virtue.
The i'll effects following the introduction of
this system are already percepible on the
SStNoNt
our views on this subject then by the follow
ing extract from the San Francisco Monitor i:
We were informed, a month or so ago, that
person had arrived in this city from New Orleans to
make arrangements for the transfer of three
hundred Cinnamon, to work on Southern planta
tlons, and as all distinctions of race and color are
abolished by the civil rights bill so far as Con
gress can do 50, imagine the day is not far dis
tant when copper.eoored Pagan labor will be
substituted for the labor Of the white man in all
the Atlantic States.
These coolies, for such they are, are demoral.
izing blight to any community in which they are
domicied. They are active and ingenious, it is
true, good copyists, quick of comprehension, and
useful drudges but theya filthy, thievish, and
UNANIMOUSLY vile. They are brought to this CITY as
merchandise, to be parceled out on the labor
market with no other condition than the supply of
animal wants and their return home, living or
dead, at the end of the time contracted for. Very
few Of them return alive, but continue to work on
their own account after the expiration of their
term Of service, and after death their bodies are
picked up and transferred to the "Flowery king
don't annually.
There are several companies trading under real
or assumed names engaged in their import and
export to and from this city. The Chinese popu-
lation Of California may be set down at $4,000;
but 1t may not become us now to present any
details OF the demoraizing influence of so large a
heather population on State which casts a little
over 100000 votes, about Is 600 votes less than
were castin 1856. The reduction of Is 900 votes in
ten years, and in new State which offers unprece.
dent Inducements, affords indubitabe proof that
the Mongolian, like the African race, is repulsive
TO the Caucasian, and we know that the vast ma.
lority of whites on this coast of all conditions of
lie, are desirous to return home Y as soon as
they can.