The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-19

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Watching those. to whom they ope'd the door
l. ;g OF erninencc spit forth t,eir hour I II17 N u
And stale, unprof1table talk No store
3@, OF honesty oE justice-none of that ore n
Do they possess. Mileage and galore
They're true tho nee and Od sna: Be tore
From t1sat t their purpose: m Each would be fore
%e asgss sa tSs lta yn9s ha3srs 1orc
THE ExPORTATION OF, COerIEs
Debate in the English House OF Commons
March 1st Atttssl
EVoRTAT1oN OF COOLIES
Mr.. B. Cochrane in cening the attention Of the
House to the exportation of Coolies from the East
Indies, said the subject was one of the sadest IN
tereat: We hci abolished the slave trade at an
large feet on the coast OF Africa at the exponso Of
nearly half a million year with Wow to its com
Pste esx suppression but while We INCURRED that
we were actually promoting and developing sys-
tenn OF what was called hec-labor emigration from
the East Indies, which was nothing more than
2that trade in another shape. That was being done
too although-and we believed the noble Lord tt
Secretary for India would bear him out in the
been for long time, great scarcity of labor,
h What, then, he would ask, was the reason why
the the emigration Of those Coolies was encouraged?
When we abolished the slave trade the NATURAL
result was that the Iroprietors of plantations: in
2 the West Indies could notgp procure sufficient
proposed TO remedy by lending the support Of tho
Government to the importation of Coolies into
those colonies: Under the new system each Of the
required, and an officer was subsequently cmpIoy-
ed to collect together that number in India, and to
snlP them Of Tor the West 1ldIes with all possible
emigrate under conditions which bound them
down to a ser7itude of three, 6ye or seven years,
aBpae hs5 bsan oHnd
to be SO in practice. The Coolies were enlistai in
the service by officers whose duty it IVES to collect
fkSor oSe1 +n,,,S,
to them in order to get them to embark in the Won,
'ture: Everybody knew how weak these Door
crestdTes res were. and how easily they were imposed
upon by the picture of some Ell Dorado which
.f1t Was represented to them they were TO find
:. on; their arrival at their destination. Having
4 by these means been brought together in some
delay Of perhaps not more than four or i've
!, days, shipped of in the first vessel that could
Il! There, II the engagements entered into with them
we're not fulfilled they had doubt, theoretically
an opportunity afforded them of asserting: their
rights, and might, for the purpose appeal to 4
magistrate !; but, as the appeal must be brought
betore magistrate in the province in which fhe
sonen f9 sae sa
obtain any, redress, He had, indeed been nfoTnI
sed bY gentleman that he had seen in Natal o
PLAN Of Ill -treatmant before a magistrata he'd to
!; CARTS by their overseers and fogged back again
+: + into: their own district. It was clear therefore
ignorance, they derived frol, them bnt little al.
vantage II e might be said Ct course, that tue
were exaggerated; but it was scarcely possible lie
believed, to speak in the language of exaggerat1on
sn The treatment to which they were subjected on
y. officers in India in shipping them. in tho
vessels which they chartered for the purpose The
report of the Emigration Commissioners for 1861
would show the House how great was tie. rnortnlio
:: fy among them after they had been shipped o.,
TINT passage sldch had beer: called the Voyage Of
death fEo+ =.
treated and had more trustworthy ships DroyidcI
tor their conveyance. The first ship mentioned in
ne report Was the Iacslles on board Of which 437
Coolies embarked q at Calcutta, the number Of which
reached their destination being 42S SO that in that
case The @ mortality was very slight. In: the next
tho Earl Russell, 585 embarked and ssa arrived. ~
s4s arrived; the next 454 embarked, she M humber @
bera were S98 and 25o and in the next the the R4 Na-
castle, 491 embarked, while only 195 Reached ther
! destination. 81 The total number Of deaths ON on
! :s145, showing mortality Of nearly one N third I'd
< Of the. entire number, exclusive Of those
wRe s, dsea 7ana 1Eo % %sasss ness oF Illness Immediately
causes Of that fearful Of things The object Of
the officers II! India was to procure ships at as
= occurred about eighteen months since who'll like
a. th4sG attracted
4 The Eagle Speed was lost the day after Isle she
sailed, because she was altogether unseaworthy.
and, although two; hundred and sixtv-twn Iva,
were lost the report stated that none Of the Euro
peans were missing. The emigration agent and
the protector both repndiated their Responsibility
in the matter. The emigration agent said: he haH
qS 10 tae t1 ana
rules affecting them were complied with, There
were no lie buoys, although there were tonr hun
i. d5ed and twenty live adults cn board. The day
after she sailed the vessel went down the chief
officer did little nothing the doctor did nothins,.
ts tns second officer although sober, was suffering
twenty souls were left to perish. The conclusions
arrived at were that the emigration heent
t5st and The ISs protector failed u their d1ty
'depioraRly, that the second officer and the
DoassTan ,sst sesed that the crew
seaan gneay bebeRaS Senayed badly that only
WINS an isolated case, and did prove that other
Hesseas @ Te5e Ta nSt pIopsSy manned and commanded
20 1nn report bearing upon the treatnont Che
Coolies received. In 1859, an interesting articIe on
the subject appeared in the Reuue des Deua:
mo,aes' aaia ltrevlewed work by N. DuHailly who
8. ITO him the planter) the Coolie merely took
re th neeroa place, and emigration was no more
may venture TO say - the slave trade OF tie 18th
NJ The same author said: IA 81. ,.ss @ u .5... t5.sf
1t la curious that enoancipation has sI,onch1
pack recruiting for laborers for our colonies near
to the state Of things prevailing before elayerv
enSsed as I'm an What virtually is the
men ofthe 17th century who paid for their passaoe
-.Dy three years surrender of their ibertv, and
Waose eutterlngs brought to mind the most frioI1i
tnl 1ea1eres OF the slave trade ?" 371-- a. -
gentleman who had published a a-worl, Il, favor
=. tn snS system OF emigration, Beaton1 wrote
:4 Ine government, yielding to tina !, t,,onI e
Glamour and the threats Of the nress
656 Coolies to be disenbarked On Fnta ~ Gh. .ne
Islands, tWoJniserabe rocks few mTas tot ~
Fort Lous, where no suit cient provision had hea.
IMAGE !or s1ord1ng them shelter and food ,Ti
condldon OF these miserable wretches 1vos +,,i. liz
dsplMahe eguarantine laws, strictly enforca3y
Forbade them to 1and-the open sea and tha heu,
rocks offered them only grave. In the conrse - ~
snort time the bones Of 200 coolies were hlencb.
ing on those barren xOcks, the victims Of TrcoIa
cowaTtnce and government mismA Anagernent. Th;s
painfnl 1nortaltyrcr little sensation among
loo eCteoies. Cnolera had broken out in Port Louis
i, snd they bad no sympathy for any suffering save
.Thewriters advocacy Of grationsrendered IT,;
improbable that there was any exaeceration IN
this account. Was it possible then for ia to ahnt
our eyes to the abuses which Ind occurred in thu
mode Of carrying out this system Of free lnbor
vas an absurdity that We were keeping nm n
aeet at an expense Of q million ayear to snpmess
slavery, and that we were permitting it IN another
( 1orm, and misleading the poor people who were
called free lahorere. But what shoud I'VE say at
the conduct OF Earl Russels Government Il, en.a
serng into treaty with the French to allow them
to take our laborers to the island Of Reunion at
the rate Of 70, 600 year !? There was no fionht
&hat ~ 1853 the French were engaged in the Afri
4 can slave Grade at Zanziber and that thavS ;rtro
duced slavery under false pretense THE Franch
ship, the Charles ct Georges, was taken and tIa.s