Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-10

I'm the Factories. ~ 80,
New England manufacturers control
Congress by the,picked men, they send to
that body. In this they are aided by the
WADEs, CHANDLERs, HowARDs and other
Senators New England born, and the
Hayes, EGGLEsToNs, SHELLABARGERs and
other Republicans who play into their
hands and own stock in the factories, so as
to enable them to levy high Tariff duty
on all the loom products of that region
and one correspondingly low on all the
material they need in the manufacture OF
their cloths.
This high tariff duty they claim is to
protect American industry-to enable them
to give fitting and living prices to the op-
erative for his labor. These New England
ers are all terribly opposed to slavery-for
years 1t made they entire political stock in
trade. Ignoring entirely, or else remem-
bering only to forget that slavery was
forced upon the United States by the GU
pidity of their ancesters-that the largest
number of slaves taken from the jungles
of Africa was brought to the United States
and sold in New England ships and by New
En- gland slave traders, these men, resolute-
ly for years waged war, by stealing back
the slaves thus sold, upon the plea that the
holding of men in bondage was wrong.
These facts, borne in mind, the following,
from the Syracuse IN. " Journal, Radi-
cal Abolition sheet, will be found fruitful
as showing the base hypocrisy of these
"Lords of the Loom of the Abolition per-
suasion. ,TTg Wi2<u r4T fFEf
"Whilst extraordinary efforts are made
In this country to shorten the hours of Ia
Dor, and to increase the wages for the
smallest amount of work. 1T Is SERIOUS
lLY PROPOSED. TO SUPPLY THE VA
ICUUM BY THE IMPORTATION OF
tn At A NUMBER OF NEW ENG
LAND MANUFACTURERS HAVE EN-
ARRANGEMENTS FOR
THE INTRODUCTION OF CHINESE
LABORERS. The way in which it is to
be done, is to make contracts in China for
the laborers to come out here and work for
five years, for their subsistence and GER
tain sum of money as wages. 1t is, of
course, expected to get their labor cheaper
than it can be had of any lab0ring class in the
country, and the manufacturers employing
it will,thereby be enabled to compete more
etfectually with the low wages of Europe"
The introduction of Coolie slavery in the
New England factories, because the labor
a fine commentary on Abolition preten-
sions, and a sad one on New England
professions. No sooner is Ne
gro slavery obliterated in the South, than
Chinese slavery is to be introduced in
New England, and that, too, by the very
men, of all others, who professed to think
the holding of men in bondage crime ac-
cursed of God and of man.
Worse, far worse will be Coolie slavery in
New England than Negro slavery in the
South. In the South, when the slave
was sick! or old, or. otherwise unable
TO toll for his living, the law compelled the
master to support him, and to provide for
mis- wants. In addition to this, the public
opinion of the South held that slave own
er to be the meanest and the most displica-
Die of men who would let his servants suf-
FER in age or in sickness.
These Chinese, coolies are hired (?) at a
price SO low that rat could scarcely live
On the amount the money would bring
rhey are furnished by contractors in Chi
IA, jnst as the slaves were furnished by the
lealers on the African coast to the New
England vessels engaged in the slave trade. |
For.his services the contractor gets the Ii
ms share of the pay. The Coolies are then
hippeds to, the United States, are hired
'ut alta few cents per day, and when old,
# sick or broken down, they are turned
oose with none to care for them-the mas
ers being at no cost for their subsistence.
gnorant of the law and of the real price
or labor, living on rice, and rats and other
ermin, they are kept in utter Ignorance of
f all things except the work they have to-
erferHl, and, are as much slaves to their
nin owner masters as if they belonged to
hem body and soul. sd
AS slaves they are the most profitableto
he owners, because, in utter ignorance of
heir rights, this slavery is made the most
bject by the heartless scoundrels whoim-
ort them-no care being taken of them in
ickness or in age, for it costs less to get a.
ew slave than to cure an old one. i
Such is the slavery New Englanders are
ow introducing on the plantations, of
,hich they have robbed their owners in
he South = Sud-: is the slavery about to be
ltroduced into the factories of New Eng
lnd,a for the purpose of dispossessing the
zhite laborer now employed there.
To protect American industry, the West
, laid under contribution to the lordly
ill owners in New England, that, like Mr..
HAsE's son-in-law, SPRAGUE, of Rhode Is
md, they may count their wealth by the
Ems of millions. To abolish slavery, the
Iar was waged for years, at cost of thou
lnds of millions of treasure and hundreds
thousands of lives. The result is, dis
rendered Republic Coolie slavery intro
uced where slavery has not existed for
alf century before, and the white laborer
reed tocompete with the Chinese Coolies,
no can exist upon food upon which dog
'ould starve. arl