The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-19
xporting negroes with that Of the avowed slav,

ee4pornnng negroes with thae OF the avowed slave
At that time the Isle Of Bourbon;or Reunion re-
quircd 10000 year OF these so-called free laborers
@ 5 s1s lbs
Emperor of the French to allow the expectation Of
Coolies from In India to Reunion, whore we could
lapscd. or would soon do 80, he hoped It would
never DO renewed. We were responsible enoupi,
f9r fowl, what was done IN our colonies without giving
Coollcs. 1t was asked, "Do you propos. to ruin
these colonies by allowing further expectation 2"
sxato CsrtanS 9 n9t there were means Of improving the
OF the moro serious evils complained Of AS
remedies for the evils now existing, tho following
%suRgestlons % @ had been made by exceedingly COM
81. That no further extension Of tho present
sys,em be permitted. 2. That the trade in sea-
which has been found necessary in Assam and Ca
har; and that the severe laws governing the latter
az recently passed by the Bengal Legislative Coun-
given period only those colonies should be al
lowed to recruit Indian laborers as can show an
so asssP nto
giving to any foreign power the right to recruit III
British India 5. That it should be impressed
large market for available labor, if properly enlist
cd in that country. G.. That the laws Of recruiting
in India should be made more comprehensive and
ta:ion of persons not thoroughly comprehending
tue nature of the servitude they are undertakng.h
Wi With regard to the Chinese they were very differ
gether to protect themselves, and might be re-
garded as quite available Tor work in the colonies.
These suggestions were very simple but very i'm
portant. The result, il they were adopted, would
be to secure better class of men than the mis-
erable crimps now employed in India, and to give
might know where they we-e going aud what con-
ditons they were subject to. He felt that this
Sands se1t Lii aoba Ss end b Hsy sy 5 Hu il ss
that great harship WIS done under the present
systom and that British legislation should inter-
fere on behalf Of those who could not defend them
Mr.. Adderey said that the remedies suggested
by the honorable gentleman would put stop to
system was an accurate one, no amount of aavan-
tage derived from Coolie emigration would justify
its continuance. But the honorable gentleman
and was utterly mist ken in the conclusions he
had come to. He called Coole emigration modi-
fed slave trade. It was no such thing. The hon
orable gentleman alluded to certain cases in which
considerable mortality had taken place on the voy-
age, as though they were fair sample Of the sys-
he st the o oD
don to propose to pull down the houses so as to
prevent anybody from catching the disease there
tlenan, the mortality among the Coolies during the
voyage amounted to ,25 per cent. But that was
because typhus. fever broke out on board. CMr. 5.
which It appeared y Wei, the fever raged RACED in IN
them all. But should Coolia onigration be stopped
vailed board the vessels engaged in the traffic?
Again, no doubt great loss Of life had taken place
in the shipwreck Of the Eagle Speed. But inquiry
having boen proved, copdign punishment WAS in
hicted. (Hear.) Was this case to be cited as q
fair illustration Cd the system The real fact was
completely and SO elaborately protected as these
Coolies. The Hon. gentleman allowed that where q
great demand for labor existed in ono .aoe and q
great supply oflabor in another place it to
try and bring the two together. Only said, eave
this to natural process."..:: In other words, the
peosSaaa Ino W. We're upon 81 day
tho West Indies, where their labor was as neces-
sary to the planter as food was to themselves. No
the
combined to do so. The Indian Act, which was
the great guard Of Ccolie interests, YVES framed in
subject since 1852 This Act protected the Coolies
from fraud on the part of those who recruited
them; and the honorable tleman's description Of
gree resemble the actual facts. The recruiters
| were licensed; they must wear o badge; their
licenses must be countersigned by . magistrate !;
and when they had induced Coolie to agree to
en1igrate, they must take him before q magistrate
who must soc that the CooHe understood the
must not even be taken to the port OF embarca-
q protector OF emigrants, who had most elaborate
functions and was subject to heavy penalties il he
did not perform them He must sec that the re-
cruiter accompanied the Coolies to the port and
supplied them with proper food on the way; and
there were stringent provisions also against their
embarcation Il in III heath, aud against embarca-
tion at all without ioence. The ship was also
4 surveyed before sailing, and the master had to
give bond Of Ioool for tho proper observance OF
the conditions prescribed. He had made careful
inquiries at the Emigration Office, and had al the
reports diligently searched; and there was; not
found single instance neglect OF evasion of the
regulations in tho records Of IT, office And now
as to the French Convention. :. The honorable gem
was first entere1 into theinterestof the negroes
No doubt it. was an inducement to the English
they, would cease totake alaSasf rom
the coast Of Africa. That Convention was made
| for three years, beginning in 1860, and wascon-