The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1869-11-11

the Banks so that they can I'll an order
for q, given number of Coolies upon a
reliable:refcrcnce that the parties SO or
/ dering,wih comply Wilhtheir contract,
| requiring no money until the laborer is
delivered ppon the Leyee at New Dr.
leans. s; 3 g y.
I hsse ,tdh. rsets all being Signed be.
fore learihg China, The "gangs" ordered
: by different parties will be messed to.
geiher On board Ships attd will lie ready
By such association, to act in concert
t'Gpoh plantations, giving thew home
feeling which must hayo good ef-
| difectE ~ f&}f..L -2s
Several of the largest and most SOL
vent ofthe "sugar planters" have given
orders amounting in the aggregate to
lseycsai hundred under The arrange.
aneht, Mr,yWilliams himself taking ffty
at the Bishop, Polk place on Bayou La
Fourcl,e. .,,:.. :..--.. 7.,..i .,.n,.
I THEY will be broug ght here as soon as
fthe contracts and passage can be made;
tthey!wilEbe brought TO- San Francisco,
dtfrst, from 1.hcre TO Panama, across the
Isthmus; then by steame. to. Key West,
] from there to New Orleans, following
; I'm this way a regular line of communi.
cation, packets plying regularly between
?lithese points. esna..t INST, 80 ''''@
j The. contract, acopy Of which is sub
! joined is made in, such a way as to, oh.
viate any Interference on the part Of
fNlr,. Boutwell, the emigration being
4 eptirely rvoluntury:r"' " '.......- ...''
E;r 1t is the intention of@Mr Williams
! to get his laborers from the AGRICULTURAL
population who are at pains, taking mo
ncy saving people, and as laborers arc
not 10 be escelled, those who know
them best give the,n a character fol
general honesty. equslito the best peas
antry of Europe, and they are said to be
peculiarly alive to the obligation of o
contract, rarely violating one they have
made. lGt ~ 1D!s f2"H =" ''.'..'.'
Much has been said about, and against
the Chinese by those, who know really
very little about them aud judge of q
people by a class. The sea coast and
FIFTY populations, almost the only ones
known to the general traveller, are o
course, a worthless set, like the scum Of
I'LL large cities the nursery ef,everJ
vice. - l.....,.,,c ,.l. ,.,z .,
{ The millions who live Of the coast ir
bnats"are fishermen or pirates as occa
sion serves, tuigyou' had as well judge
of a sulid man of NewIYork bya Bower,
rough, or, q New York farmer by q
Booncga' G wreeker as the respcctabilitJ
and character Of the Chinese by awhar
rat of Canton, or a pirate Of the yellow
Sea. 50 So; ...".. ..i" .'' ..si'''
What VIC need is a trusty, , bard work
ing man, who recognizes the great, we
may call it, "moraI" obligation of labor
Which is the beginning Of all civilization
as the reverse is its breaking down; - -
Such mahristhc Chinese laborer, as i
> pypyeu by oil history, in all time, ,let thos'
Who see a "fuss house" tcyefy cros,
rnad oHd "chop sticks" down throat say
what they please. - ~ - -
!: b. In Bordeo; Java," a,"Ceylon, and all th'
!; eastern islands, they. do the work fo
, Christian and Mahomatan alike. Il
the"M "Mauritias' where the English freet
] the negroes at the same time they did il
. Jamhica, the trade Of rhc island was Ri
ined, some Boutwell, or "Snmner" o
that day prcached.asain4t Coolie labor t
] protect tho beloved African, brt com mo,
sense an the natural. force Of what wa
right and proper for tine situation, set
/ tied; ! rs it always will after due time th'
!; question, the negro is now counted GU
(as he will be here 10 time unlcs he wake
np) and with Collie labor the ,"Mnui
'iss" makes more sugar for, Great Bli
. tian than it ever did. '"''' 49, -.
In 1858 according to Dana the only da
ta we Lave at hand two hundred thou
sand Coolies were worked pro6tnbly il
: Cuba alongside of the cheapest furn O
slave labor, African negroes a'togethc
I males, bought and worked like muIes.,
There is common expression o
!: some Of our people that they prefer tn
, negro as a luborer to say nothing Of th
abomipation of "EIeatheu rites and p,
gan sacrifices the new conner bring
: with him, but they must remember th
only way to keep the negro to his vol
is to Introduce the Coolie.
: The best friend Of the black maj
Il (and your committee would Respectfully
!, submit that they yield to nome in tn
= estimate of lis t'pe value) siorld desir
something that forces upon him q re
cognition or the Obligation of labor 70
his own benefit. They have every rea
son now for thinking that they hav
the game in their own hands,. thut the,
can dictate what terms they plcase, 40
only charging for their labor more thst
capital can bear, but rendering all cro]
results uncertain by striking at criii
cal time Its cultivation; nothing is $,