The Shasta courier., 1869-07-10
The Chinese-Who are Responsible for
their presence here.
New and Startling Phase of the China
Question!
Preparation to attempt the wholesale
Importation of Coolies into the South.

question.
Preparation to attempt the wholesale
Importation of Coolies into the South.
The charge that Republicans are or ever
have been favorable to the introduction of
Chinese into this country is false and unsup-
ported by one single fact. On the contrary
the Democratic party is, and has been, solely
| responsible for their presence here, and no
man can say the reverse and tell the truth.
Chinese were first imported here under a
National Democratic Administration and
while California was under Democratic rule
The Legislature of this State was entirely
controlled by the Democracy or by an anti
| Republican element until within the last few
| years, and had power all that time to exclude
Cinnamon from the State by hostile or un-
| friendly legislation. Why were they not
banished then Let it also be remembered
that under Democratic rule the Mongolians
were permitted to increase in numbers here
until they dug out and exhausted the placer
mines of the State and appropriated the
| treasure that should have been reserved and
| protected for the benefit of the white miners
who are to-day struggling to make bare
living in the few spots left ungleaned by the
swarthy hordes from Asia. Can the Repub-
icans be held responsible for these things :?
He who says ''yes" is either falsfer or
an idiot, or both.
Having placed the responsibility for the
presence of the Chinese where it rightfully
belongs, we will proceed to show our readers
a new phase of the China question. and one
that calls for the serious and candid consid.
GRAFTON of every friend of free labor in the
land.
Read the following dispatches copied from
the late papers and reflect upon the condition
which affairs are assuming. The dispatches
explain themselves, but they are not very
extensively copied in Democratic papers.
Memphis, June 23d A Convention will
be held in this city the 18th, composed of
| leading citizens of West Tennessee, Ala
bamd, Mississippi and Arkansas to devise
and adopt measures to secure the introduction
of Chinese labor into the States named. 1t
/
| the immediate importation of THREE HUN
| DRIED THOUSAND COOLIES, via the Pa
cic Railroad. Propositions will be submit
ted to transport coolies via the Isthmus, and
there to New Orleans aud up the river.
Six days later we have this:
Memphis (Tenn.), June 30th -Ameeting
for the purpose of encouraging Chinese i'm
! portaton was held at the Chamber of Com
morce to-day. A dispatch from San Fran
cisco was received, saving that Koopmans.
chapp, the principal Chinese importer, will
attend the meeting if one is held on the 18th
of July. Resolutions were adopted, declaring g
that the best interests of the South require
that all legitimate inducements be afforded
to encourage the importation of Chinese labor,
10 large numbers, direct from China, to supply
a great demand now existing; also, calling
for Convention of delegates from all the
cotton States, to meet July 18th, to consider
this question.
About the same date we find the following
paragraph in the San Francisco papers:
An agent of Tennessee planters entered into
contract with Chinese house to-day for
20, 900 laborers for plantations, the employ
ers to pay heir passage and $50 per month
in coin, for five years.
Again we have:
Chicago, June 24.-Five hundred China
men are expected on Friday, en- route to New
Orleans and plantations.
Now the men who are engaged in this eff
fort to establish Coolesm in the South are
Democrats and ex Shareholders who desire
to build up another system of slavery on the
ruins Of that extinguished by the war. The
names which figure in connection with this
movement are those borne by the leading
/ Democrats of the South and late supporters
of Seymour and Blair. The Republicans
North and South are opposed to the impor-
taton of Chinese into the Country and are
AMI always have been in favor of Free Labor
Let US renew our old party battle cry of
FREE LABOR FOR FREE MEN !'-and
add-"Down with the Coolie Democracy -