Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-04
The chinese Movement.
Special Cor, of the Baltimore Gazette.

The Chinese Movement.
Special Cor. of the Baltimore Gazette.
WASHINGTON. July IS. 1869.
A day or two ago / furnished proof
that the Radical presses were overjoyed
at the prospect of immense importstions
of Cinnamon, because. of the prospect
thus avouched of their becoming the
slaves of the emancipsted negroes. No
evidence is needed 10 show that the
fanatics of the East never had any objec-
ton to human slavery in the abstract.
Their factories are full of white slaves.
They only abhor the institution :
while assuming the peculiar phase of
the supremacy ofthe Caucasian over the
gizzard-footed, fst-nosed and protruded'
chiuned race of Fam
II seems now (since there is some
prospect of procuring for the white peo-
ple of the South, industrious laborers in
lieu of negroes, who have been utterly
demoralized by the carpet-bsggers), that
these very consistent journals, as usual,
have turned tail upon their own theory.
They have hunted up statute " of the
United State Congress, with the bloody
enactments of which they hope to brighten
Koopmans chasp from his laudabe de-
sign of bringing some sort of people
into the country who are willing and able
to 90 into the rice and cotton fields to
work, ] can assure Koopmanschasp,
and all other philsnthropists that even if
the law referred to be considered 90
levelled at their enterprises, they would
in no wise be put in worse condition
BY continuing their traffic than by de-
sisting from it Acts of Congress in
abundance exist, under the provisions OF
which (if the common sense of mankind
would permit their execution any man
in the country, high or low, rich OF poor,
might be brought TO the rope" hy q
drumhesd oourtrmartial, for crime, or no
crime, without 60 much IS an appeal to
any lawful authority whatever,
But the "act" about which so much
fuss is all OF once made, is necessarily
sholly imperative here, because there is
nothing Whatever for it to operate upon
in this country and nessr gas 1t dis
tinctiy relates to Q species of slaves known
az coolies" and tolerated only in Ger.
tain foreign" countries, and never in
this since the revelation, rs 10 plainly re-
cognized in the Law itself sutjoin the
whole section of the act, which was passed
February Is, 1862, before the emancipa'
tiou of the negroes here was seriously
thought Of:
THAT no citizen or citizens of the
United States, or foreigner coming into
or residing within the same, shall, for
himself or for any other person whatso-
ever, either as master, factor, owner, or
otherwise, build, equip, load, or other
wise prepare any ship or vessel, or any
steamship or steam vessel, registered,
enrolled or licensed, in the United
States, or any port within the same, for
the purpose of procuring from China, or
from any port or place therein, or from
any other port or place, the inhabitants
or subjects OF China, known ss coolies"
to be transported to any foreign coun-
try, port, or place whatever, to be dis
posed Of, or sold, or transferred, for any
term of years or for any time whatever,
as servants or apprentices, or to be held
to service or labor"
Yet the wiseacres of Summers chosen
organ have the temeriiy to say
"Koopmsnschaap, the great coolie
character, has come to grief. After sll
his bright visions be is at last to be die
appointed. 1t now appears that there is
Q Law of Congress bearing on the coelie
traffic which will efectpally put en- end
to bis anticipated enterprise"
The anticipated epterprise" of Herr
Koopmsnschap is simply to contract for
laborers in China to emigrsts to America
at so much head-the expenses to be
deducted from their wages when en-
ployed Every ons protesting to en-
tighten the public mind should know that
at least since the adoption of the Consti-
tuition in 1887, the specific performance
of such contract cannot be enforced
by the courts. The risk must be run by
the employer, and, for the edi6cation Of
the tsrgiversating Radical organs here
and elsewhere, ] have it in my power to
say that It will be vsntnred Ia this re-
spect the question is no new one, as the
early career Of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad will show They dealt, however,
with quite another sort Of coolies thas
the Chinese