Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-11
Anurprrs1nn pAmns,
WEDNESDAY MORNING, Aug. IL, 1856
RAILROADS AND COOLILs


coolie importation. The Pandors's Box
at Memphis seems to have emptied itself
of two evils to the State of y rinia,
| the lesser of which our Gotten, oral les
have seized upon and are discussing
with more avidity than if it was real
profitable "new movement )" while the
greater evil has been suffered to dis
charge itself against the interests of the
State without a word of protest. The
lesser evil we refer to liz the coolie inn
portation for the present. and the great
or one is the endorsation by the Mem
phis Convention of the Ell Paso or SD
parallel line, instead of the Union Pa.
lci6c or S6th parallel line, the straightest
and most direct route between San
Francisco and the Capes of Virginia.
This is the greater evil, because the
ipeople of Virginia had their hearts set
on this middle route as being in every
respect better than either of the others,
besides its being almost an air line be-
tween ocean and ocean; and the re-
commentator coming from the Mem
phis Convention of the other route
which debouches at Charleston or Sa-
vannah, seriously damages the pros.
poets of the real route which the people
of Virginia desired to see bult. It's
| recommendation of that Convent ! 2 fofs
before Congress, at its next sesa .Yf Il
the embodied expression of the South
ern people in favor of the Ell Paso route
and against the s5th parallel route, and
there it has its force either to build or
reject; and from the lively manifesto
lions already put forth by the people of
the Gulf States in behalf of the extreme
Southern route, it is evident that great
| efforts will be made in its behalf = while
the route that is to benefit Virginia, and
make her seaport the centre of European
and Asiatic commerce receives the quiet
go-by of even our wide-awake brethren
of the Virginia press. Gentlemen, this
will never do. Turn some of your gas
on the railroad to the Pacific, which, if
built, will make our State the great
highway between the nations of the
earth and then if we get more coolies
here than we want we can pass the sur
plus along on the line to our neighbors,
ar send them back to their fowery
Kingdom. u .s
Now, as to the importation of Coolie
laborers, from the best light we can get
on the subject we are rather disposed to
go against it when it is likely to assume
anything like vast proportions. For
domestic convenience, and for immedi-
ate relief to the agricultural labor of
| the South, we would not oppose the in
PRODUCTION of few hundred thousand
of the " outside barbarians" into our
Southern country, but then we have the
word of Johnny Koopmanshoop that
the importation of the coolies .v,il
eventually bring great evil on tx
country and as we are not disposed (.
dispute his knowledge of the :" critter,"
we had rather undergo a temporary in
convenience, than open the food gates
for them to pour in and deluge our fair
land. ~ g.4w@. af.5 Ga1F
We are not over Jealous to cheaper
the products of the Southern soil
beyond the products ofthe rest of the
world that we have to trade with, for
we believe the Southerner killed the
goose that was laying him the golden
egg before in trying that very same
experiment. When we could have
made money and built ourselves up in
wealth and power in furnishing he
world with cotton at ten cents a yard
and maintained the monopoly of the
worlds markets at that figure, wecould
not rest satisfied. We must produce
cotton cheaper; we must put shirt on
every pauper in Europe at six cents a
yard. and we did it, by bursting up the
whole arrangement, and then what ?
Why, we let India in as competitor
and cotton is no longer king. We can
now produce cotton at ten cents yard
and make fair living profit from it,
and we had best do SO for long time
to come, and as we accumulate a little
capital from that some invest it in usa--
chinery and other matters to O. ms
own man nfacturing, which will So la
an increased profit. All OF this we can
do without the coolie who we are rather
Inclined to look upon as a nasty buzzard
that we had best not hasten to intro
duce on to our premises.
We admit that manifest destiny
will eventually bring the Gilman man to
our shores in large numbers, and are
rather disposed to submit the process
to manifest destiny" because that
will probably bring us the pick of the
celestials, and if Johnny Koopman-