The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-07-24
Do We Want Coaliesl

We do not want.our Southern population de- |
based by the importation and admixture of |
the inferior breeds of mon. We do not want
any of the Asiatic race. We want men of
the Caucasian race, and no Others as a REIN |
forcement of our population. We want white
men-and we do not want yellow men,
brown men, red men, or black men. Our
fathers protested against allowing the Yankee
ships to bring negroes here during the colo
NAL times; we protest against their bringing
Coolies here now"
Our venerable contemporary, the Richmond
Enquirer expresses itself with warmth in
opposition to the importation of Coolies. We
respectfully differ with our able friend, and
for very excellent reasons. We do want these
members of the Asatic races. We prefer
them to the majority of the Caucasian race,
which We are likely to get from the over
crowded countries of the Old World.
We want them first, because from the Cape
Fear to the Savannah river, we have vast rice
fields which cannot be cultivated by men of
the Caucasian race, and upon which free la
Dor, especially in the productive low lands of
South Carolina, has proved failure.
AS white men cannot by any possibility
cultivate these fields, and as the negroes will
not what then are we to do? Shall we allow
these lands to return to their original Wild
ness, or shall we endeayor to restore the pro-
duction of this great staple, rico? We presume
there can be but one answer to this, and that
in favor of the restoration line of policy. The
Coolies are the very people for this We
want them to reinforce" our labor not "our
population" in the sense in which our CO.
temporary uses the word. We desire to see
these Asiatics introduced in the fabulously
rich but miasmatic regions of North Carolina
where the Caucasian is not likely to be in
duced to settle But we do not want them
for "admiXture" Nor are the Coolies am
bilious Of this They work out their con-
tracts and go home enriched beyond their
widest dreams, for in the Celestial Kingdom,
for example, their accumulated wealth on
the $50 per annum of which the Enquirer
speaks, would provide for them for the re-
mainder of their lives, and that too, hand
somely. They have no ambition to become
right of the ballot box; they eat their frugal
meals, do their work steadily and count the
days which bring them nearer the time Of
their release to chop stick and bow-wow pie
On the other hand, men of the Caucasian
race, who come among lis to engage in the
intellectual pursuits of digging canals, hoeine
corn, and minding cattle, aspire to become
QUESTION of political weight The New tYl OF
Times, some time ago, knowing this fact
pointed out to its party the importance o
sending Europen immigrants, especially from
Germany, into Virginia, in order to shape he
destiny in the future
Nobody dreams of doing this with H.,
Coolie. Before he can learn English enough
to make him an available tool in Radica
hands, his contract expires, and he goes home
tie cannot understand designing men. anc
they will not, therefore, endeavor even tc
make use OF him. On the other hand, the
Germans can be controlled, even if the mass
OF them should remain in comparative igno-
rance of our language, through the Red Re-
publican Societies of their countrymen at the
North r-sf
How, then, these Coolies could dcbase our
society, or mix with our race, or interfere
with our political affairs, we are at loss to
conjecture. The facts in the history of the
employment of the Cooie, are all against the
theory OF our contemporary AS for the Yam
KEGS bringing them here, we confess if we
had the ships we should like to have it done
by our own people, under humane provisions,
for the safety and protection of the Coolies;
but as we havn't the ships, we will be very
much gratihed to see anybody import these
frugal and Woodworking people, to redeem
the vast rice fields and rich corn lands of
the coast, which, without just such an agency
as this, promise to grow up into junglos and
thlckets. In the course of time, we feel pro-
toundly convinced, that the malarious lands
of our coast will be worked by Cooie labor;
and one great comfort about the reflection is
that JOHN CHINAMAN will grow rich on his
500 per annum, and won't bother his head
about voting. .....