Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-04

Orleans market 1t seems that the brig
William Robertson had arrived below
with twenty-three coolies on board The
Republican states that adyices from the
United States Vice Consul at Havana
give reason to suspect that there is an
extensive scheme" on foot to introduce
coolie labor in the South, and that the
cargo of the William Robertson is pros
badly the first instalment Of the traffic
The Radical press are raising a great
clamor and denouncing this as a traffic to
be suppressed by law 1t is not a trade,
but a Legitimate immigration such as our
laws invite The coolies are not an article
Of commerce. but are the material from
which to make citizens The St Louis
| Republican says. In California there are
many thousands of Chinese coolies, and
they are coming by the thousand every
! year They are proving a most useful class
Of laborers on the Pacific coast There is
no department Of industry in which they
are not found They make the best of
house servants, excellent porters in stores
good washers and ironers, excellent farm
servants, diligent miners Recent re-
| ports tell us that the Central Pacific
| railroad has made arrangements to en-
| ploy 10000 Of them in the construction
Of that road Why do we hear no OBJ
| iections TO all this from the Radicals ?
The reason of it all is perfectly plain.
Such immigration of coolies to the
United States is perfectly lawful. 1t is
| as lawful for 1000 coolies to come here
as for the same number Of Irishmen or
Germans, and there is no law which can
be enforced against their coming. But
the Radicals do object to Chinese coolies
coming into competition with the negroes.
! Southern employers see abundant reason
for dismissing negro laborers They
are no longer reliable They are under
the worst possible Radical influences
| They have become indoctrinated with
notions which render them useless as
laborers. They have imbibed, through
Radical teachings, prejudices and hos
Utilities toward the whites Mutual con-
fidence between the races is destroyed
by Radical agency, and the prospect is
| Of 4 still worse condition before there is
better 1t is not surprising that citi-
( zens Of the South have been looking
about for another class Of laborers, and
the Radicals ought to know that there
is no law which can prevent ship loads of
coolies coming voluntarily to New Or
| leans, any more than to San Francisco
Under our laws they have the right to
come, and under our laws any person has
the right to employ them Thousands of
laborsrs have been induced to come from
! Ireland by agents sent over to induce
them to come to labor in our various
public works 1t is as legitimate and
proper to offer like inducements to
| Chinese to come into the Southern States,
and as there is no law against the former,
so there is none against the latter The
| laws Of 1862 and 1864 referred to are in
applicable to such sort Of importation of
coolies They refer to those who against
their will, as slaves upon the coast of
Africa, are seized, forced on board ship
and brought here on contract with a
| master who has hired their time for a
term Of years and intends to speculate
upon their bones and sinews as a slaves
trader does upon his captives from Africa
Citizens of the South couutenance no
such system in the importation of coolies
They offer them fair monthly wages upon
contracts made directly with them. We
believe that the introduction of half a
million such laborers in the South would
be advantageous They are more apt to
learn than negroes They are more
skillful in the use of their hands and
muscles Their initiative capacity is I'M
limited When once tod and shown how
to do a thing they will do it exactly with.
out any subsequent instruction They
are more active and more industrious
than the negro Their natural intelI-
gence is far superior to his. They are
docile and obedient Such has been
found to be their character in California,
and such it would prove in the South. If
Il. Il L L. .
of such a class of laborers would
be injurious to the interests of |
the negro, they may thank themselves !
for the existence of a necessity of en-
ploying another class Of laborers. Ii the |
negroes think the coming Of such |
would be an injury to them, let them |
look to their Radical teachers for COM
fort and redress 1t is not in the nature |
of things that Southern citizens should |
continue voluntarily to employ a race Of |
laborers who have come, through per-
nicious teachings, to look upon them |
with suspicion, distrust and hatred.
When the Radicals commenced sowing |
the seeds of the war Of races between the |
blacks and the whites, if they had |
possessed ordinary sagacity, they could |
have foreseen that they were preparing |
the way for the displacement Of the
blacks as an industrial class by another
and different order of laborers. They |
will in vain invoke the rigid enforce |
ment Of law against the incoming Of |
coolies There is no law to invoke, nor |
is there any to forbid the stocking Of |
every cotton, sugar and rice plantation in |
the South with Chinese aborers and in
PRODUCING them into every store, manu-
factory and dwelling. We incline to be- |
Heve there will be many more ships be- ]
sides the Robertson that viii bring |
Chinese t. New Orleans, to the mutual |
benefit of Southern employers and
Chinese laborers
THE registered vote in Alabama, as far |