Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-01

as it was probable, or even possible
that the Government would interfere
with his delivering them in fultillment
of the foreign contract. But stated to
me that ii the land OwneS, and others
here who wanted this labor, were
willing to run the risk of the Govern
ment interfering he would go out on
the October steamer and bring as
/ many as transportation could be found
| for. to New Orleans. Going out In
! October the labOrerS could not well
reach New Orleans before February or
March.
WHAT THIS LABOR Is LIKELY TO COST.
1t is impossible to state with precise
accuracy what this labor will cost, be-
cause in executing the contracts before
/ Chinese authorities, and having them
! certified before the American authori-
! ties there, certain expenses for ices
which we do not know how to esti-
mate will have to be paid. For neith-
eT the Chinese Mandarin nor the
! American Consul viii work without
/ pay. fell safe in saying that from
six hundred to six hundred and fifty
dollars will cover every thing, OF
/ which two hundred dollars must be
/ paid on the arrival of the lab0rer, and
! the residue at such intervals through
/ the five wears, monthly or otherwise,
! as NAV be agreed. Payment 10 be
made in currency, not in coin. This
will be between ten and eleven dollars
/ per month, the hirer to supply rations,
/ the laborer to clothe himself and pay
! his own doctor bills. If this labor Is
! wanted on these terms, all you have to
| do is TO deposit, each for himself, with
! Writ Adams 4 Co., a sum of money
! in proportion to the number OF labor
/ ers he wants. Whenever a sum shall
| be deposited sufficient to cover one or
| more cargOes. l viii write or telegraph
! to san Francisco. The party engaged
[ there viii 20 over 10 China by the first
/ outgoing steamer, and will, with all
convenient speed, make the cotracts,
| ship the labOrers, and Will deliver
them on board ship, anchored IN the
stream Off the CustOmhOuse III New
Orleans, his responsibility being at an
end when anchor is cast. You taking
all the risk of Government inter
ference.
ANSWER 70 OBJECTIONS on TIE
SCORE or HEATHENISA,
Since my return have learned
with astonishment that some good
people are opposing the introduction
of Chinese labor because the China
man is a pagan. Sure if pagan hands
perform good labor, we can without
apOstacy accept the profit. But doe
any one seriously apprehend the
Weakening or overthrow of the Chris
tian faith among US from the Infusion
of q few hundreds or thousands of pa
gans? If the Christian faith IS 50
shaIlOEg and fesble as 70 be displaced
by such weak means tine sooner it is
eradicated the better. That Christi
anity which would be shaken by con-
tact with a small pagan element Is no
true Christianity. 1t Is but empty
pretensions and paradeiuI display.
Have Ee not ct large expense and
costly outlay been sending the mis-
siOnary to heather lands to win the
pagan from his idol worship and con-
vert him to the true faith? May we
not then bring the heather to the !
missionary, and while the former by |
his labor small be Eeaeeming our land !
from its desOlatiOn, may not the latter /
by his teaching and the goOdly eXam- |
pie of parishiOners win him into the |
narrow path that leads to happy inn |
mortality?
TESTIMONY FOR THE NEGRO.
Some silly people, l understand, are !
opposing the introduction of Chinese |
labor, becadse they say 1t - intended |
to push the black man out of the /
country! If the movers of this en-
terprise had any such motive, ! would |
have been the last man on earth Sc |
lected TO carry it out. They know very !
well that prefer black labor TO any |
other. L know them to be better edu- !
Gated to our peculiar agriculture, and |
believe them to be altogether better |
suited to it than any other race Of |
people. During the late war they be- |
haVed for the most part with great |
fidelity aud affection. During my |
four wears absence from home whether |
l was front with the cOlors or in prison |
they furnished support for and gave |
projection TO those ] left behind. /
And when, during Iny Imprisonment,
my children were left motheFieSs in a 4
land OF strangers, these black people |
we're ss true to them as the needle to 1
the pole. Those ReGple are now on /
my plantations, working induStrl- /
ously, doing we'll for me, and well for
themselves. | would not put them |
aside for ANY other labo-er pn earth.
SCARCITY OF LABOR-THE CHIEAMAN |
NEEDED.
But along with this is a painful |
truth, patent to every one who looks I
and thinks. More than One-half OF /
all the cleared lands of the South is /
growing up in briars and brambles. /
Less than One-half the annual crop |
made in the South before the war is I
now produced. Nearly all the black |
people Of the country are tilling the |
soil. There is no more home labor to |
be had. We have waited four years, /
and have been using earnest efforts to /
get immigrats from Europe, and la |
borers from the Northern States. We /
have failed. A chance is now offered /
to get this labor from Asia, and when |
the effort is made, not with a view of
injuring anybody, but of benehtinS
everybody, the foolish assertion is
made that we are trying TO injure the
black man. Such an assertion would
excite mirth, if it did not provoke
contempt. Applause.
BLACK AS WELL As WHITE ARE IN
TEREsTED IN THIS CHINESE LABOR
QUESTION.
The black man Is quite as much in-
terested in the introduction of Asiatic
labor as the white man. The black
man IS now free. He is citizen of
the country. He is interested in its
progress, both as q matter of pride,
and as a matter of interest. In pro-
portion as population shall grow dense,
and wealth increases, taxes will di-
minish. AS the black man increases
in means and gets land, either for a
term of years or in fee, he will want
to hire labor, and he will want to hire
the cheapest labor he can get. All
men of all pursuits are interested in
the speedy increase OF our population.
Without this increase we cannot have
labor; without labor we cannot have
prosperity. We want labor for agri-
culture. We want it for internal i'm
provenent. We want it for manu-
facturers. We want the plow, the
loom, the anvil, placed side by side.
We want railroads penetrating in
many directions. All this you cannot
have without money The money
you cannot have without labor. The