The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-12-15
vOLUME---KUMBER s4s.
Cargo of Coolies.

| We see by our Exchange papers that cargt
4 of Coolies has been landed ut Galveston, Texas
They were taken from the vessel, put up at auc
tics, and soH--for limited time, of course.
I We thus see that an attempt has been already
made to introduce the slave-trade under another
| name, and we trust that the internal traffic will
be stopped, whatever name it may assume. We
| want no more slaves among us, whether sold fol
ten years or for life. We have suffered enough
| from the presence among us of an inferior race
whose shiftless labor-if labor it could be called
has impoverished Virginia, and whose presence
is now the cause of all our political troubles.
| The Africans are decaying, however, and in
less than twenty years their numbers will be SO
few in comparison with the whites. thar they will
then no longer be cause of serious vexation
After they shall have ceased to harass u.s. are
we to have other barbarians imported, to perpet-
uate indefinitely the mischefs resulting from the
presence of a degraded race?
We remember that ten years ago the country
, was Mortified at the smuggling in of slaves from
Africa, and we were astounded that there could
be found in this nineteenth century men in
America who could not only excuse the devish
commerce, but advocate it on grounds, political,
moral and even rehgi0us-God save the mark
AS, however, the British Government took the
lead In endeayorlng to extinguish this frightful
crime all over the world the politicians who like
lancey and Brownlow, were in favor of the
African slave trade, became very savage in their
attacks upon that government for sanctioning
the Coolie trade, which they declared was a
hundred times more cruel than the Congo traffic.
This very class of politicians are now, however,
advocating the introduction of Coolies, which
ten years ago they denounced as the sum of all
villainies.
What is the cause of this-for it has a cause
1t is this: Certain people cannot understand how
a white man work with his hands, and there
fore they cannot conceive how the lands of the
South can be cultivated by any labor but that of
colored people of some sort or other We advise
these folk to travel, and they will find that white
people cultivate the fields in not only Russia and
Sweden, but in SPAIN Portugal and Italy; and
there is no reason why white labor should not do
the same in the Southern States of the Union.
Before the eyes Of these men the image of the
old planter is still reality, of which they can
not diyest their minds; they cannot realize the
fact that that parsonage is as dead as the old
colonial parson and can never be brought to life.
His place is to be supplied by the small farmer,
under whom the South will flourish to a degree
which she never attained under the institution
Of slavery-still less could she prosper under any
paitry makesh of compulsory labor that could
be substituted for it. The idea is preposterous
that the Southern people themselves will ever
permit the introduction Of any species of labor,
the infallible consequence Of which would be to
place in the hands Of demagogues another bar
barous race, which would be the source of an in
definite prolongaton of our present political
troubles. There has, however, been an attempt
made it must be stopped at once and forever.
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