The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-11
Chinese Immigrants.

As there is doubt in the world of the introduction
OF Chinese labor into the South large scale, it
would be well enough that should view it in all its
phases. With this view make the following ex-
tract from correspondent of the New York Post:
IF the Southern people don't wish to bring them
selves into all sorts of trouble they will have nothing
TO do with Chinese labor. The Chinese do very well
in California, where they by steam within easy
reach OF their homes and where they governed by
various societies who protect them in case of want
sickness; but, taken the interior of this country
and bound down to work for mere pittanee OF few
dollars month, they become lazy and shittess
When their time is out they entirely without
means to return home and then become intolerable
nuisance.
About 1852 Mr.. Pierce Graves brought two ship
loads of Chinese coolies to the Sandwich Islands
They were, If my memory serves me, picked up at
Swatow, and were to receive 81 so per month and a
regularly stipulated quantity of rice. In five years
they were TO be free Mr.. Graves having previously
entered into arrangement with number of planters
the Islands, brought on about four hundred coolies
and for their passage, including his commission,
he received 800 per head. From the first these
stated that they had been deceived; that they had
gagged but tor one year. and that they to have IS
per month and free passage home they elected to
return at the expiration of their term of service They
never worked willingly; they gambled all night, and
consequently were incapable of working well the next
day They were great thieves and scamps generally.
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few words of the native language, and consequently
made poor house servants They took great o1ense if
scolded; and if assaulted would tie knives to long
poles and attack their overseers. They seemed TO
have no fear of death. They filled the prisons and
chain-gangs, and number of them were hanged for
murder Mr.. Dudoit, an old resident at the Sandwich
Islands, and formerly French minister at Honolulu,
was brutaly murdered by coolie who had taken Of
fense upon being scolded. This iend came in at the
dead of night, doubt with the intention of killing
the whole family. Mrs. Dudot was severely wounded,
but finally recovered
The services of these coolies were often sold for
various sums apportioned according to their unex.
pired time They were bad eggs, and the Southern
people had better keep clear Of them. In California
they do very well, and are happy when they earn
two dollars per day. Many of the gold dggings
in the mountains, when abandoned by the whites as
not paying, taken up by the Chinese, who consider
themselves amply repaid where a European would
starve. Any former resident at the Sandwich Islands
will corroborate my statement concerning the coolies
there.
With all due Difference to the views expressed by
the Posts correspondent, willing to take
of John Chinaman in ours. Let him come We
never have lived in the Sandwich Islands, but from all
accounts the natives hardly competent to govern
themselves, to say nothing of working Cinnamon. We
candidly believe the South is willing to give John
trial.