The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-06-23
CHINESE IMMIGRANTS.

grafton to Louisiana of the thrifty !,
habitants of the North and of foreig
countries. Nothing would enhance Il,
value of the lands held by our grea
landed proprietors more than the sell
ing OF part of them to such proprie
tors as should bring them to a hip,
: state of cultivation.
But it is impossible ever to chang
Ideas of agriculture in which the peo
pie OF Louisiana We're born and educa
ted. No matter how thickly settled
Louisiana may eventually become
there will always exist large sugar and
, cotton plantations, on which paid labo,
Will be used by the owners of the soil.
But the difficulty of obtaining suitable
labor, since the abolition of slavery is
growing greater and greater every day.
Since the rise of Radical carpet-bacg
Ism, with its pestiferous ideas of social
equality, the negro has become less
ana less inclined to work, and thsre is
every probability that the great mass
OF them will eventually cease to labor
at all for their employers. The ones
ton is how shall their places be sun
piled.
For some years past there has been
a considerable immigration of Chinese
INTO the State of California, and il is
estimated that there are now in tl,e
Pacific States at least seventy-fiye
thousand of them. There exists CON
siderable prejudice among the people
against them, which has probably de-
TERED many more from coming. But
now since the completion of the PacifcJ
railroad, which opens communication /,
between the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. !
It is likely that Chinese Immigration S
VIII take fresh start, particularly if a
he Chinese are encouraged TO think
nat they will oltain remuneratiye /,
wages II the Atlantic Southern States V
nina is overcrowded with its millions
4 peopie,and the means of subsistence a
re nara to be obtained. How mucb -
etfer would il be for these people to y,
the Chinese repngnance TO d
reign countries and emigrate to some W
her land where they can obtain The y.
cans OF living with so much less diff st
lily. The slightest efforts to induce bl
EN- TO come to America can but be
owned with complete success. q.
1t will be found, if the experiment m.
properly made, that Coolie labor is off
culiarly adopted to the South. The KIN
ole can stand the heat of orr climate le'
Wen almost as the negro. He is d
1fty, patient, Industrious, and Co
'"gh he has many vices, they are not he
re ffagrant than those which have gay
ungulshed Southern laborers under has
late regime. He can be kept at a
III cost. If provisions should fail. Ma.
lie rice and rat terrier will keen -"
n happy and contented. ~
We shall perhaps be met with the nrot
sctlon, that the South has already a heal
lciency of race different from the the
tie, and that it wonld be impolitic thin
introduce the Monaghan race to natu
plicate the amalgamation question bear
further. Perhaps the Radicals. Their
will hive someth;nr 70 pow,
ect Fon ,,.,, WV the s
tlon, the Coolie would have the r;ro
to vote and hold office, il is bare hodv
'ssible that he might not be willing the 8
'te the Radical ticket, which would prom
difference in his right to come wise
nerica at all. 1t might also make BIT
difference with the carpet Dagger new
her your oman and BROTHER has use OF
rbt hair and a n;o+o;, the st
and no pig tail at all. . ..an'e
,c 'nA 'hat Johnny Die.
III would cut this political. Cor urged
knot. Ifyon give him plenty a ME
e and rats he would not care fig willie
the ballots and offices i'm the is 't fro,
rse. And as for the your citizen impair
Of the Chest government in the at ono
2 he not only treats it with the BITE
profound contempt, but makes Ever
contract, when hired in Asia. have ,
le is to be taken back TO the disease
~ Kingdom, alive if may be. ;agaln $:
that he is to be properly coffin Tonic G
translated to the land of his giving
for burial. He does not even '0"'
with the religion of the white ~.
He has already outraged the The n,
II decency of the pious people of OF. wha
mia by setting up for worship a able DC
atne of Josh in their very midst. "nu sl :,
as information on the subject sh VIM
OF one single one has yet en- miles a
the Christian religion. din an,
generalization of the Southern stroke
1stem must soon drive Sontb. 10 -"
% seek after that which is most onr Ner
I. We are sure that they will the pre-
We this Coolie question it's pro- above o
sideratfon. ish now
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we publish, this week, the 81 ota a1,;..s
"n" odiu oi the Riverside eight SIT