American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-10-02


eleven dollars per month, the en- /
ployer to supply rationN; the labor
er to rloihr himself and pay his own
doctors bills.
II this paper is wanted on these +
terms, all You have to do is to de.
roSit each for himself, with Writ
Adams x Co., II sum OF money Ill
proportion To the number OF laJurerS
he wants.
Whenever sum shall hc deposit
ed sufficient TO cover one or more
car"orS, ! Will write or telegraph to
San Francisco. The party engaged
there viii 60 over to Clil by the
fl st outgoing steamer, and will,
with all conrrnICnt sreed, make the
contracts, ship Tire iHhorcrs, and
viii deliver them on board snip, an
chOred IN the stream Of the custom
mouse III New Orleans, his reponsi-
bliity being at All end when anchor
is cast; You taking all the risk OF
governmental interference.
Since my return, ! have learned
with establishment that some good
people are opposed to the introduce
tion of Chinese labor because the
I Chlnaman is ii pagan. Surely if
pagan hands perform good labor, we
can, without apoStacy, accept the
profits.
Bat does any seriously apprehend
/ the weakening or overthrow of th"
Chlistian filtl among us from the
/ Introduction of few hundreds or
thousands of paGanS? Ifthe Chris
tlan faith is SO shallow and feeble as
TO be displaced by snah weak means,
the sooner it is cradicated the better.
Ihat Christianity which would be
shaken by contact with IA small pa
gan element is no Christianity. 1t
is bnt empty pretenil0n and parad =.
I ful display. Have we not at large
expense and costly outlay been send
ing he missionary TO heather lands
TO win the pagan from his idol wOr-
snip and convert him to the true
faith? May We not then bring the
heather ID The missionary, and while
the former by his labor shall be re-
dteming our land from desolati0n,
MAY not the latter by his teaching
and the goodly example of his | ar
iShionerH win him into the harrow
path that leads to a blessed immor-
tality.
Some silly people, l understand,
are opposing the introduction OF
Chinese labor, because they say it is
intended to push the black man out
OF the country
had any such motive, l would have
been the last man on earth selected
to carry it out. They know very
well that prefer black labor to any
other. | know them To be better ed
ucated to our peculiar agriculture,
aud believe them to be altogether
better suited to it than any other
race of people. During the late war
they behaved Tor The most part with
fidelity and affection. DnIing my
four years absence from home,
whether was found with the cIlors
or in prison, they furnished support
for and gave protection to those
left behind. And when, during my
imprisonment, my children were LETT
motheIlesS in land OF strangers
these black people were as true to
them as the needle to the pole.
These same people are now on my
plantations working industriously +;
doing well for me and we'll tor them
selves. | would not put them aside
for any other lahOrprs on earth.
But along with this is Il painful
truth, patent to every one who looks
and thinks. More than one half 81
all the cleared land of the South is
growing mp in brierS and brambles
Less than one-half the annual cror
made in the South before the war i,
now produced. Nearly all the black
people of the country are filling the
soil. There is no more home labDl
to be had. We have waited fOuI
years and have been using earnest
efforts to get immigrants from Eu
rope and laborers 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 view of iUuring anybody
+. but OF bencfittins everybody, tht
foolish assertion is made that we are
trying to injure the black man
Such an assertion would excite
, mirth, if it did nOtrrovoke contempt
. The black man is as much inter
ested i'll the introduction of Asiat il
! labor as the white man. The blacl
, man is now free. He is citizen o
:. the country. He is interested in it.
progress both dis a matter of pride
aud as a matter of interest. In PRO
, portion as the reputation shall grow
;, dense anil wealth increases, take
will diminish. AS the black MAJ
.. increases in means and gets land
= either for term of years or in fee
! he will want to hire labor, and IL
g will want to hire tie cheapest labo
- he can get.
All men of all pursuits are inter
! ested in the speedy increa e of on
: population. Without this increas
We cannot have labor; without labo
> We cannot have prosperity. w
D want labor for agriculture, We wan
u it for internal improvements W
, want it for manufactures. We wan
: the plOw, the loom and the anvil
T. placed side 10y side. We want raj
l roads penetrating in many directions
l All this you cannot have withOu
I money. The money you canmO
- have without labor. The labor yo
V cannot have Without an increase {
= population. This increase of popu
= lation You have been unable to ge
II from Europe or tie Northern States
T. 1t offers to come TO you from Asia
Il VIII You accept il? 1t so, max
u similar provisions to those made b.
: the Immigrant Aid Societies for pOI
o ulating the Northwest, and yon
! now dcsOlate fields will again bios
u som like the rose.
II Full of Importance as this questiO
y il tO ma it aSSlIfIps a hrDlGpr an