Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-07-20

his arrival? Mcssrs Sampson ant
koopmanschoop may have pleasure
yachts and palace-cars, with opium
and ginseng dd iJitum to while tn,
time away, but il is not the usua
course ofbusinoss. The sober truth
is they come, il consciously, certainly
ignomntly. One truth unquestion
ably is conceded from tbem-thai
there is no provision for their going
back alive, though we note that Mr.
Sampson, of North Adams, out of his
abundant regard for the sentimental
emotions Of new journcymen, osten.
taiiousl y provides for the retrocession
oftheir dead bodies. They are, in
tn O'Iriggcr fashion, TO be "pickled
up and sent home" II, however,
there be in the neighborhood of North
Adams dissccting room, male or fe-
male, where lifoless humanity com
minds price, we very much fear the
promise TO return the dead to Cathay
wl be fruitlcss Vino better for a
woman patholigist than a mild Chi.
nose? But as to the living China
man, there is no chance of his getting
back, nor will he want TO 20 for the
cofdwaing arts East and West being
very different, be will have learned a
trade of no value in his own land of
paper shoes, and will be looked on
among the workers in ivory and san.
dad. wood as an apostate and useless
cumberer Of the ground The poor
boy who, years ago, through pious
zeal was brought hither to be educa.
ted and was graduated at Yale Col
lego, who learned Lptin and Greek
aud algebra, and could read Horace
and translate Eschylus, found himself
n wretched, discontcnted man when
be went back among the Confucion-
lists. A fortiOri the Massachusetts
shoemaker. But they will not go
back They, especially those who go
South, win perish here and one win
ter in the neighborhood of Saddle
Mountain and north latitude 43 do
grees will finish a good many emi-
grants from Shanghai 1872 degreos) or
Annoy on the edge of the tropics.
The instincts which revolt at the
experiment of purely selfish inhuman.
ity are not Of new development. Ev-
cry intelligent merchant-except the
merchant in human fesh-every mis-
sionary, every diplomatic agent from
this country, has condemned this
trade. One mercantile firm in which
the North Adams surname figured,
was actually shamed out of the bust
mesa II may not be amiss TO look
briefly at the concurrent testimony,
limiting ourselves to that which alone
is il print-tho views of our diplo.
rnnii,..fr,on. Anterior 70 1883 fhp ooolie
trade had full existence and attract
ed little attention, but in that year
Mr. Marshall, then our minister, made
it the subject Of earnest representa-
tion TO the government at Washing
ton-lor Americans were the greatest
carriers TO Brill, Cuba, and the Span.
ish main. Himself Southern man
and slave owner, he took sectional
view of the trade-economically-and
discussed it in its relations to the
West Indies and our South Little
did he dream of living to see The day,
as he does, when cargo of coolies
would bo thought boon to the labor.
less South. DR. Parker. who had a
large Chinese experience, and more
or less the feeling Of sympathetic
missionary, had very decided views
on the subject Hc knew its horrors
as well as any man, and had not passed
many summers at Maccao-where the
poor coolies were pcnned together for
export, and large New England clip
per ships ready for their transport
houted defiance at him without
Thorough and permanent disgust
Anxicls to do something, Mr. Parker
issued a proclamation. II had as
much eficct on the Portuguese and
Spanish and Yankee traders as that
pontiitial bull which the rcvered Lin.
coin lsed to talk about had on the &C
centre adventurers of the sky. His
successor tried his hand on it with
about the Same result Being a law
yer. le delved out n forgotten statute
the act of 1S1S-whioh made II
groutd of forfeiture for ship and pen
atty ir master TO transport "from AZ
rica q any other country any negro,
mulalto. or person of color TO be held
to service" These penalties he pro
claimod; but the coolie ships went on
their way rejoicing, aud the Attorney
General, TO whom this construction of
! tie sta uto was referred for an opinion,
thought the minister wrong and that
Chiuaman was not person Of color
/ in thoviow Of the law. He probably
was right. Then it was that Con
p-css intcrposed and, through the ac.
tive agency Of Mr. Eliot, of Massa.
chhsotis-the same ostimable gentle
nan whose death we announced the
obcr day-the penal statute was
pissed which now is the law Of the
isad. Such is the concurrent testi-
nony of all who know anything on
te subject.
We have not left ourselves room
cen il we had the inclination, TO say
a word as to the economies OF the mat
t,r, or OF the plausible distinctions
Which the shoe capitalist Of Massa-
elnsetts take in defence Of what they
are attempting. Hints of doubt aud
t,ust are all We care to suggest now.
/ We are Of tho mind fully of our ex-
p,nsiye neighbor OF the Tribune, who
having swallowed the African, strains
al the Asiatic, when lac says, sensibly
ard solemnly:
"We confess that we by no means
contemplate the present aspect ofthi'
Immigration with unmixed satisiac
ton. lf these COLES are TO be thrust
upon US merely because they have
ftwer wants than most civilized be
ings, aud can therefore be hired fol
lcss; If they are TO remain among u'
. uueducalcd, unassimilated, more ex
crsscencos upon our communities, anC
never taking root in our soil-ther
ILL.,.