The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-07-29
The New Slave Trade.

II. She never loon paw IA ~ ~ 49,
through her agency that it was finally pro-
hibited. But that trade brought discord
and strife into the land, and finally civil
war and untold misery upon the southern
States, which had neither part nor lot in the
business of bringing negroes. from their
native land and looming them to slavery
That is a bit of history the South should
not forget. The people who engaged IN
forcibly putting into slavery the Africans
made millions by their crime. We, the
victims. who had nothing to do with II, are
despoiled of those slaves whom VIC pur-
chased after they became slaves. They are
set free and made our cqnals-are par'
of the constituent element OF government,
and enter into the aggregated torcc ana
character of the body-politic
Now, then. we behold the result of the
first effort in This country to subject an IN
ferior race to the will and authority OF the
superior-to make them laborers, to 90 and
to come when hidden. All know how it
fell.
But cheap labor is Il seductive thing to
money seeking people, and tho trade IN the
introduction of inferior races, who do the
cheap work, is lucrative. The importation
of the African gratifed cupidity IN both
phases: and unfortunately, it inspired
national greed which, now that African
slavery is abolished, proposes to crafty
itself in new form. The coolies and other
low grades Of Chinese arc inviting victims
of this national rapacity, and numerous
schemes for their importation are set on loot
by cunning Spectators. The plan is to
bring them into this country in immense
numbers, and turn them over to southern
planters for a consideration; which forms
part of the gains of the system of forced
immigration.
Thus we shall have the old Yankee slave
trader in new character; but one equally
avaricious and reckless with the old. And
We shall have repeated the adroit movement
by which the money making importers VIII
free themselves of the ultimate evils OF IN
Producing the inferior races by transferring
them to the South We are to have the
mottled populations and degraded average
of social character, with the ultimate dlsas-
tcrs and calamities which such social adul- |
iteration must bring upon any community.
Certainly the South ought to profit by |
the lesson it has had, and protect itself
from the new danger which threatens it.
Cupidity is stimulated by the cxpecta-
ton that the new description of interiors to
be brought in will be so meek, so submls-
sivc, that they may be governed with the
same arbitrary will with which the negro
slave was controlled, and that their lie
will be new form of slavery, ut least a |
sort of pconagc. This is dclusion. These
dispositions depend on relative numbers be-
tween the governing and governed classes,
and the new ideas that will be imhibcd III
country where the scrvilc races arc in the
enjoyment of equal privileges with their
supcriors in mental and social qualities.
The demagogucs will soon stir them to throw
off all reserve and figure largely in the
arena of politics.
Labor lnylg0ratcS the system anu srcb@'h-
ems all the physical forces. The laboring
classes multiply amazingly. The little
family of lsrnclitcs that followed JOSEPH to
Egypt soon multiplied under the stimulus
of labor to nation that threatened PHA-
RoAH. We see how the blacks have in
creased in this country; and as to the IN
IL nnlI In
to the dcnscncss of the population OF China.
So We have every danger of multiplica-
ton and political equality from race diff
fering widely from us in every respect,
and imbued with supcrstitions and mo-
rality which toleratcs any outrage on
strangers that would make their presence
n source of apprehension and certainty
of ultimate trouble, national disturbances,
and social degradation.
Avarice is the bane of nations, and sell
indulgence is its partner in destructlvencss.
The nation that fails to rely upon ITSELF
and seeks to accumulate wealth and ENJOY
ease by filling the bosom of society with in
fcrior races to become drudges and Ia
borers must be doomed to calamitics. The
stratagem is fatal.
Industry or labor is the seminary which
rcplcnishes all the departments of CONNER
cial, professional and political life; and il
that be left to inferior races, what sort oil
men will rule We have had the inferior
race as slaves; but now they must be free,
l,a
sentative bodies from degradation when the
inferior races hold the power of numbers
If this country embarks largely in this
fatal enterprise we shall finally have Can
ton of New Orleans, Il Fuchow OF Mobile,
and Shanghai of Charleston. We cannot
undertake to imagine what sort OF order
there will be with the social variations Of
negroes and Chinese. We shall have pc
culiar pandemonium. Both races are SUI
perstitioug. Both prone to seek reyenges III
covert ways and though the Chinese are
more gentle and quiet than the negro, they
are equally vindictive and reckless of life
!. e., other people s-when imbucd with
malice. While the public order would be
more than ever deranged, personal safety,
the security of the family fireside, would be
placed in much greater peril.
And for what shall We incur these social
perils? The answer is to deveope the
country. All, that "develope!" 1t al
WAYS reminds us of the Frenchman's toast
to 'This grand American republique, that