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

as recently passed by the Bengal Lee1siaMVe Ceul-
cil bo followed 30 far as practicable. 8. That after
a 9iyen period only those colonies should be al
lowed to recruit Indian laborers as can show an
absence Of such population as could develop it's
soil. L. That no further treaties be entered into
giving to any foreign power the right to recruit in
British India. 5. That it should be impressed
upon colonial governments that China affords q
large market for available labor, if properly enlist
ed in that country. 6. That the laws OF recruiting
in India should be made more comprehensive, and
tnat greater checks should be put upon the expor-
taiion of persons not thoroughly comprehendng
the nature of the serItude they are undertaking"
With regard to the Chinese, they were very Glitter
ent from the Bengaleese,. for they comDneo 70
garded as quite available for work in the colonies.
These suggestions were very simple but very I'M,
p,-tant. The result if they were adopted would
be 10 secure better class Of men than the mis-
erale crimps now employed IN India, and TO give se
might know where they were going and what con- co.
ditions they were subjected to. He felt that this
was a subject which might be safely loft 10 the
hands of his noble friend; but the House would see
that great harship was done under the present
system, and that British legislation should inter-
fere on behalf of those who could not defend them
selves (Hear.) "a:
Mr. Adderley sais; that the remedies suggested
by the honorable gentleman would put stop 20
Coolie emigration altogether. It his view of the
system was an accurate one, no amount OF adVan-
tage derived from Coolie emigration would 1lstl1y
it's continuance. But the honorable gentleman
had not made out his case in the slightest aegree,
had had come @ to. BE called Cooie emigration modi-
fed slave trade. It WAS no such thing. The hon
orahle 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-
tem. t Why, it would be just as reasonable because
the cholera had prevailed at the East-end Of Lon
don to propose to pull down the houses so as to
prevent ANYBODY from catching the disease there
In future In one case cited by the honorable gen
tleman, the mortality among the Coohgs OUTING Inc Inc
VOYAGE amounted to .28 per cent. But ehat was
because typhus fever broke out on board. (Mr. IS.
Cochrane.-s were eight or nine ships IN
which II appeared.") Well, the fever ragged in
them all. But should Coolie emigration bo stopped
because in 1864 typhus fever had sometimes Pre-,
Ssd on SonSt pest oss had taken place
IN The shipwreck Of the Eagle Speed But inquiry
had been made into that case, and, gross neglect
having been proved, condign punishre WIS IN
hicted Hear) Was this case ~ TO re 'sea se as ss,
that probably no css Of British suL;er!s was 80
completely and 80 deliberately prcttctt ,s these
Coolies. The Hon. gentleman allorcd chat Wherea
GREAT demand for labor existed n Ono place and a.
great supply ofabor in another aes wGs gas
this to natural process" IN other words, the
pooryots who were, starving upon 3D. day were
expected by some :snatural process" TO tumble mto
the West Indies, where their labor was as .neces-
sary to the planter as food was to themselves: No
natural PROCESS would bring this about, and the
mother country and the Colonies had therefore
combined to do 80. The Indian ACT; which Was
the great guard Of Goolie interests, was framed IN
1854, and consoGdatedi the: II statutes upon the
from fraud on the part OF those who recruited
them. and the honorable gentlemans description OF
the mode of recruiting did not in the slightest de-
gree resemble the actual facts. The, recruiters
were. licensed; they must wear:a badge; their
and when they had induced Coolie ITO agree to
emierate. they must take him before magistrate,
who must see that the iCeoGe understood tho
agreement and really wished to emigrate. pnt!
magistrates certificate was obtained the .Coohe
ton. ,t..,ss,,;J i F....a 3,;is
Then. at Madras and the other ports, there was
q protector OF emigrants, who had most elaborate
functions, and was subject to heavy penalties ne
did not perform them. He must see that the re,
crliter accompanied the Coolies to the port and
supplied them with proper food on the, ,Fsy; and
there we're stringent provisions. also against their
embarcation il in i'll heath, and against embarca-
ton at NIL without:a icence; The ship wGs also
surveyed before -sailingi and the master had TO-
The conditions prescribed. he had made careful
inuuiries at the Emigration Office, and had all the
reports diligently searched, and there WAS not
found single instance OF neglect OF evasion OF the
as TO the French Convention. The honorable gen
tleman had mostjustly stated that that Convention
was first enterei into In the interest OF the negroes
No doubt it was an inducement to tho English
Government to supply the French with lAbcrers on
the f COST Of Il Africa. That Convention was made
for three years, beginning in 1850 and L., wascon-
fianed Subject to sternipstions upon
nntGbon either eide, ,of three but noeanch
notice had been given. When the honorable gen
ssI oyas net certain u HE nnfaber."l Well,
then. why make it 10,OOO2 (Hear, hear.) He be-
ieyed the emigration did not now amount TO ten,
and that it had almost entirely ceased. lHear,
hear.) The fact was the French did not Ike the
Coolies they were not liked at Reunion, and 80 the
emigration had come to an end He had shown
the protection extended to the Coolies in the East
Indies up to tho time OF embarkatlon, and now nc
would show how they we're protected on their arr
val in the Maritius trinidad ana br1ash ~ Hqa "a
tle: In all the colonies which received these; I'M
migrants there were laws ,passed express
" for their prote, .I-laws which, have
been drawn up according. to 2 Instructions
which guarded in the minutestnay the interests
of the Coolies. There we're agents and sub-agents
who periodically visited the Coolies and made re-
ports Of their condition to the Governor, aud who
had to see that the regulations were carried out;
that proper provision was made for their f. wants;
families were separated; that. the hours Of labor
we're limited; that their back passage was soc :red
and that ndentures were cancelled 10 cases OF any
excessive hardship. It was perfectly true that
wrecks had taken place within the last two years,
Five had occurred from 1854 to 1886, but one OF
them was in tremendous storm In the H0oghiy,
which destroyed all the shipping in the neighbor-
hood. There certainly had been great mortality.
but when his honorable friend talked Of 26 per
cent. he would tell the House that the average was
nearer to per cent and that the mortality on the
voyage last year, although famine vas then raging
in Bengal and at such a<.!!tppe many i'm
migrants might embark who would be un-
able to stand the voyage, was. only per
He 6 must state in addition that the agents
at Calcutta had recently ordered larger
space on shipboard, in; consequence fthe mortal-
ty that had been referred to- He now wished to
call attention to the beneficial results Of the sys-
make out better case against it than he had done
he would hardly succeed in putting it down. The
system had been of the greatest possible benefit both
to the Coolies themselves and to the various colo
nies and those who had objected to it were either
the East India Government or those great friends
of abolition, who seemed blndly to seek the good
OF the negro, by promoting every plan most detri-
mental to his real interests. The Government OF
the East Indies wished to keep these men at home,
for they said that they wanted labor there,
and the honorable gentleman backed their
arguments. But was their demand for labor
a fair demand, when the wages was only I'd.
q. dayy {Hear, hear.) Why the Coolies were
much more slaves at home than where they
slaves at home, but let them go into the wilder
ness and they would get better fare: In the East
indies they wanted to keep down the mass Of the
laborers to the starving point but when they went
to the colonies their wages rose to sbilling day,
and they had evidence to show that the CooGo
there became totally different being both physi
cally and morally-from poor despondng crea-
ture he became something like a. man. He saved
moneyto considerable extent. In 1859 $40 Coolies
returned home with f7496, which was at the rateof
s21 EACH In 1861, 27O Coolies returned with savings
amounting to fSO76 or ELL It's. each. Other years
the savings amounted f25 f33, f28 head, and