Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-07-20

is IN no mood to foster slavery, even IN
its mildest form. If the Chinaman comes
to our land, he must not come through
the agency of middle men, who traffic in
him as do "horse and cattle dealers
traffic in horses and cattle. He must not
through their agencies, be bought up ir
China at price of $500 per head, pei
month, and bound out to citizens Of the
United States at $40 to $50 and s23 pei
month, for a series Of years. This is
slavery modified; instead of being fol
life, it is for series of years-generally
for five. This is the coolie trade, as now
practiced, and most infamous trade il
is. Out on it. 1t is species of slavery
and has tendency to detract from the
worth and dignity of labor, almost a.
much as slavery in the South detracted
from the worth and dignity of labor
there. 1t is the boast of the Northern
States that labor with US is honorable
This is the sentiment Of the Northern
people, and no system that will ally in
any way with system of slavery will
be borne by the country. The verdict
of the country on that question has been
given Enthusiastically.
A law was enacted against the coolie
trade, by Congress, few years ago. II
it be defective, let it be changed to meet
the case, and then rigidly enforced. The
Republican party. with its broad plat
form. that all are equal before the law,
can not and will not sanction this mod.
fed type of slavery. While it opens the
door wide to the oppressed of every land,
and invitingly says come, here are our
workshops, here are our fields, aud here
are our mines, help US to improve and
develope them. it cannot admit the China
man as coolie. If the Chinaman desires
to come to our land untrammeled by con =
tract, as a free man, of his own free will,
lust as the Irishman and the German,
and as all the other people of Europe
come, then let the door be open. Strip
the Chinese question of the coolie phrase,
in which it is now involved, and it be-
comes simply question of emigration,
to be treated like the emigration question
between our government and Europe.
Representative Cake, of the Schuyl-
kill and Lebanon district, in a series of
resolutions which he offered has struck
the keynote on the coolie question. The
are the resolutions offered by
Mr.. Cake, which were referred to the
Committee on Education and Labor:
WHEREAS, Since the emancipation Of
the American slave and the elevation of
our humblest laborer to the full rights of
citizenship, unscrupulous spectators OF
human flesh have demonstrated the prac-
ticability of fastening slavery upon the
nation in another form;
And uhereas. To take a step back.
wards is contrary to sound and health
ful policy, tending to a betrayal of the
people and a subversion of the Govern
ment;
An2 ,chereas, The United States of
America has ceased to be the home of the
slave or the field in which the slave driver
may pursue his trade with impunity
And t,kereas, Danger may be autici-
pated in organized immigration of bond
Cinnamon; therefore, be it
Res0lred, That while the people of the
whole world are invited to come as vol
untary and free men to share with us in
the projections of our laws, of our free
and in the wonderful advan-
tages of our wonderful land, it is against
the genius of the age to bring them here
in bonds for a term of years or even min
utes that this traffic in bondsmen is de-
grading to labor and will not be tolerated
by a nation of freemen, and must be
checked in its inception by the prompt
action on the part of the representatives
Of the people; therefore be it further
Resolred, That the Committee on Edu-
cation and Labor are hereby instructed to
investigate the subject, including the con-
tract or coolie system practiced in var
ious parts of the country, and to report
bill as soon as practicable, prohibiting
The introduction of bondmen from China
or elsewhere, providing for the protec-
ton of those who voluntarily seek our
shores in quest of free homes, and who
will as speedily as practicable adopt the
habits, and customs of our peo-
pie, making it criminal ofense punisha-
BILE by fine aud Imprisonment to be par
ty direct or indirect to project tending
to perpetuate the barbarism of slavery.
War In Europe.