Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-11
THE CHINESE PUZZLE:
What will they do With lt7-ResPectfully
Suguested-The Radicals in haddle-A
way to get out Of It-EShOrtsr Cut Still
Massachusetts, Past and Present-Sum-
npF's New Idea.

Massachusetts, PaSt anu FFeSeht-Sum-
ner's New Idea.
From the Baltimore Gazette-l
WASHINGTON, July 6, lS1O.-The
"Chinese puzzle" now before Con-
gress, is hard to solve by them, ana
fhis arises. not so much from its in
trinsic difficulty as its connection with
other matters to which its solution in
a statesmanlike manner is repugnant.
The utmost that the Radical faction
processes its ability TO do in the way
of helping the cordwainers Of MaSsa-
chusetts is to enact statute, atiirma-
tive of existing laws, recognized as OF
binding force more than half CEN
fury ago. i have frequently (perhaps
too Often) referred TO this point. After
quoting from one OF my letters, a
Northern newspaper comments upon
AIr. Stewards bill to render unlawful
ssservile labor" in this country, and
sustains the views expressed by me in
the following significant terms:
Now, for the sake of argument
only, assume that Dir, Sampson (the
offending master shoemaker OF Bos-
toni contracted with these seventy
i've Cinnamon in the Chinese Empire,
and that according to that contract
they are 10 work three years for a
stipulated sum. Upon their arrival IN
this country they are freemen-free as
the air Of heaven-a2d II they see nj
TO break that contract there Il no legal
or other power TO hinder them. Ihey
could quit work tomorrow, If they
saw fit, and the only redress MIR.
Sampson would have would be through
a civil action in the courts for damages
occasiOned by their breach Of contract.
Beyond this protection Of common
law, applicable TO everybody, he
would igs pOwerles5. lie coulQ mol
seize their bodies, neither could he
compel them 20 SOTk lor MN against
their will more than he could eom-
mon American citizen. In this Illus
tratiOn l have taken the ground thai
she contract of Mr.. sampson was
made in China, but the fact is IL was
not made in China, but in the United
States, and in the city of San Fran
CisCO1
Admitting to the fullest that the
Radical faction is unable to deal with
this qUestiOn-it being IN the condi-
tiOn of a party that can neither stand
still, 20 forward, or retrace its steps,
without danger to its integrity-and
that it cannot lawfully intermeddle IN
this matter at all, it might as well be
told to those concerned that if the in
fernal crew who govern the country
were earnest and sincere in their pro-
fessiOns of a desire to help the me-
chanics of Boston to rid themselves OF
the influx OF Chinese operatives, they
would stand in no fear whatever in
g. - IL +HlnT Constitution,
of the country. II they were IS anX-
iOus TO favor the UOrkingmen, In this
emergency, as they have ever been to
violate the fundamental Law TO accom-
plish their selfish party and private
ends, there would be no difficulty in
applying an infallible remedy.
Suppose, for example, that Con-
gress, ia its plenitude Of power, should
enact Jaw taxing Sampson, the Phil
listines, and all others who employ
the Chinese, st 50 much head Tor
every Chinaman they employ, max
ing the tax 50 eAOrbltant that It
would be impossible, at q cent & shoe, /
to engage them, could any one doubt
that precedent could be furnished
abundantly Tor such legislation?
Nould il be a clearer violation of the
Constitution, or the acknowledged
common rights Of mankind, that the
whole system Of internal and external
taxation under which the country is
now labOring with ulaccCuntsble pa
tience?
There might be a shorter cut sstili.
! don't here refer to the subtertuge Of
Paganism, and so on, for | believe it
could be made clear enough that il
Il oil
more effective, to bring the "Pagans"
here. in order TO convert them.
than to employ expensive mission
aries TO hunt them up in foreign
countries, under disadvantages; but !
have direct allusiOn to the power in
herent in the NdbOb presiding at the
White House, whoever he may now
a-days be for the time being, to eX
peil from the country whoever may
displease him, or his friends, native
or foreign, black or white This
would be no new doctrine at all.
Many men were packed on south
ward without a why or a where
for. Why cannot these Chinese shoe
makers be packed of" Eastward
with as little ceremony?
But the truth is that Mr.. Stewards
plan OF relieving tut bOotOA NfiSpluS
by enacting a perfectly nHgatOry law
has led to the suspicion that he has
been specially employed by the Mas
sachusetts politicians TO evade efiectu-
al relief Massachusetts, be it remem-
bered, substantially established Afri-
can slavery upon this continent. Her
people have, since she sold her negro
q slaves " to the South, been the slaves
of masters who governed them by the
most fantastical Of superstitious mo-
tives. This having been played
out" at last. new Idea has
struck her notiOnal leaders. IL is the
introduction of system OF non-slaye-
ry servitude, which is defined by
Sumner to be an involuntary liberty.
BY this system no man can be es-
teemed truly free unless restrained OF
his liberty, and no man can be az
counted a slave unless he takes upon
himself to think and act for himself
The political and financial ideas in
vogue, connected with the new
4" idea" are plainly written. They
are, in a word, that the people must
surrender their politics 10 the Radical
philosophers, and their money and