The Placer herald., 1867-03-30
Chinese Slavery.

On this subject. the Grass Valley Nation.
al contains the following pointed remarks:
at is well known, that the greater portion
Of the Chinese population on this coast, are
coolies or slaves. II you want cheap labor
done, all that is necessary is to apply TO some
mandarin or person in authority and hire
hundreds Of them for ten cents a day and
board. This system is about to be adopted
unless something is done to prevent it, in the
Southern States, where large plantations have
been bought by Northern men who intended
to raise sugar and cotton, and, in order to do
this, they are a going to substitute Chinese
for African slavery, thus acknowledging that
they are willing to make profits from human
bondage as anybody else. They were ready
to shed seas of blood to libcrate Negroes, and
now turn around and acknowledge themselves
hypocrltes, by avalIing or attempting to avail
themselves OF slave labor at the first opportu.
nifty. In this State, those that were most
strenuous for the rights Of free labor, when
the South was under consideration, are the
strongest advocates of slave labor, when the
slave happens to be a Chnaman. Chinese
slave labor improvisbes the country, or greatly
Injuries free labor, and now is the time for
free labor TO be advocated. Strange to say,
it is the. emocrals-those awful Southern
sympalhizers-who are opposing slavery in
California, while the simon pure loyalists are
in favor of it,"
The Democratic party have never been
pro slavery, in the proper sense Of the word.
They have only demanded that the guaran
tees of the Constitution should be carried
out. They knew that without the observance
Of its provisions there could be no Uuion.
They knew the Union itself existed in and by
virtue of that instrument. For standing up.
however, for the grand old charter Of our
liberties, bequeathed us by our patriot fathers,
they were denounced, by the Abolition dis
unionsts as the especial advocates Of slavery,
per Sc. While every sensible man knew this
was false-wbie he was aware that the De.
mccracy never assumed that African slavery
was either blessing or an evil-it neverthe,
less had its weight with the Northern masses.
Thus the Democracy became the victems to
their devotion TO the Constitution, and fell
before its enemies.
But the hollow heatredness of these pre-,
tended opponents of slavery is being strik-
ingly shown by the unanmly with which the
leaders are advocating Chinese coo'ieism in
California, which, in all its features, is inf
nitely worse than African slavery at the
South. From the latter, proceeded The true
prosperity Of the Northern States. The
working up ofthe raw material it produce1
gave employment to millions of whites. 1t
furnished the best market in the world for
their manufactured goods. It's Carrying busi
ness, coast-wise and foreign, built up for
them great merchant marine. In o essen
tial did slave labor come in competition with
white labor. 1t is different, however, with
the Asatic Coolie labor. Coolies are em.
ployed in occupations peculiarly adapted to
white laborers, male and female. They are
employed at rates far below the cost CT slave
labor at the South, and are thus driving from
employment the men of our own race. And
the advocates OF this worse than slave system,
are the Radicals. The Democrats have AL
ways gone on the princinle Of the greatest
good to the greatest nrlnUer, and that the
blessings of government like the dews of
heaven, should descend alike upon all, the
high, the low, the rich and the poor. Their
opponents, however, under all their different
party names, have enlisted in the interest of
capital. 1t is for the interest Of this, that
Asatic coolies should be imported and EN-
ployed. Hence, true to their past record,
the Radical leaders take sides against our
own laborers. This, the working men of
California begin to understand, and if true to
their own interests, they will drive to the
wall these enemies Of their prosperity
San Francisco Examiner.