Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-06
The Coming Man"
The Memphis Avnlanche says

The Memphis Au"lanche says:
1t con no longer be said that Chinese
immigration is dream or thing on
;; paper. The "ball" is fairly started,
and at least one thousand Cinnamon,
with their rat-traps and pig-tails, will
be at work in tho cotton fields of this
section before the close of the coming
picking season. They will bo of the
best and most reliable laboring class,
and will add greatly to the develop
mcnt of our resources and tho rcstora-
ton of our lands, which, since the
war, have been rclapsing into their
! original wild state. Mr.. GeezeasW.
Gift will leave here on Thursday of
this week in the interest of tho Ar
kansas River Immigration Company,
and is authorized to contract for and
bring back 1000 Cinnamon, to be de-
livercd to Thos. II. Allen, agent of
the company in this city. lie goes
via the Union Pacific Railroad to San
Francisco and thence by steamer to
Hong Kong, which route will occupy
between forty and fifty days. The
return trip will probably be all the
way by water to New Orleans. In
the event that the necessary number
and right material can be obtained in
California, Mr.. Gift will return at once
with them from that place, dcfcrring
his trip to China to some future time,
or until the experiment of Chinese
labor in the cotton fields of the South
is fairly made. lie is provided with
the means necessary for expenses, and
has also letters of credit for $50, 900.
Here is the first practical step in an
enterprise that will no doubt result in
great good. Mr.. Gift is the man to
carry out the business successfully,
aud his return will be looked forward
to with great interest and anxiety.
The examples set by the company he
represents is ono that should be fol.
lowed throughout tho South, and wo
trust the company organized in Mem
phis during the past week, which is
to operate on larger scale, will make
rs quick time in getting under full
headway, that the practical results
may be experienced before tho close
Of this cotton season.
TIE ANTI.cooLIE LAW.
In regard to the law of Congress
prohibiting the coolie trade, about
which 80 much has been said, the
Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Gazette remarks:
The fact" about which so much fuss
is all ut once made, is necessarily
wholly imperative here, because there
is nothing whatever for it to operate
upon in this country, and never was.
1t distinctly relates to q species of
slaves known as "cooliee," and tolc-
rated only in certain "foreign" coun-
tries, and never in this since the revo.
luton, as is plainly recognized in the
law itself Herr Koop,nanschaap is
simply to contract for laborers in
China to em;grate to America at so
much head-the expense to be de.
dncted from their wages when EN-.
rloyed. Every one protesting to en-.
} Tighten the public mind should know
that at least since the adoption of the
Constitution in 1887, the specific per.
J formance Of such "contract" cannot
be enforced by the courts. The risk
must be run by the employer, and, for
the edification of the tergiversating
Radical organs, here and elsew here,
havo it in my power to say that it ,Oil'
not be endured. In this respect the
question is no new one, as the early
career Of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad will show. They dealt, how.
F ever, with quito another sort Of "coo
lies" than tho Chinese.
A VOICE FOR REpEAL. :.
The New York Times is in favor o1
repeating or modifying the act Of Con.
gress prohibiting the coolie trade, sc
as to offer no impedjment to the i'm
portation Of Chinese labor.
The editor assumes that "thore il
no longer any doubt Of thegreat value
and economy of Chinese coolies al
agricultural iaborers they have been
tested as common 'laborers on various
public improvementsin In the West, ant
have been found more economical thar
athara. hnt they haua NOT nrouad %