The Shasta courier., 1870-10-08
The New Slavery.

er. meets our views, and we endorse every
word Of it: "Whcn the Republican party
ceases to be party of progress its days Of
usefulness are over-when it ceases to war
for the liberty of man, it ceases to be
patriotic-when it fails to strike at slavery
in every form, it is lamentable failure
All gilded trophies of its legislative and
battle field struggles are as naught while
one vestige of slavery remains on our soil.
All the brightness and fragrance Of its
glories fade and are odorless while one
human being in our land remains subject
to slavery. The Republican party in its
wis ON and bravery, stormed the forts of
oppression, tore down the black flag, and
in its place raised the emblem Of liberty
to all. It's mission was uoble-was grand
was Christian like; but until its princi-
pies of free thought, free action and free
labor, is written in imperishable letters
upon every industry in our land its great
est achievement is yet to be accomplished.
Koopmanschap, that Prince of slave dealers
that infamous peddler in human beings,
now engaged in overfowing our country
with foul disease, and attempting to lull
us to sleep with the syren song of cheap
labor, tells that be has made contracts to
supply 100000 Chinese coolies for the
East at 50 per month, to take the place of
white free laborers now employed at $50.
These coolies are to be employed in man
ufactories-are to serve in more disgrace
full state than were the blacks of the South,
ere Christianity and the spirit of liberty
talked through the eloquent bayonet, and
struck down the chains of oppression
This coolie system is far more injurious to
the interests of our people than black sla-
very in its worst days. The smuggling of
the african to our shores was virtue
compared to the operations Of Koopmans-
chap, who erects his slave pens where and
when he pleases without let or hiudrance.
What after all the blood and treasure ex.
pended to eradicate the divine institution
in the South, are we to have in its stead a
more extended and offensive system of sla-
very? 1t seems so. A reconstructed sla-
very. For coolieism is nothing else. A
system of slavery thrust upon people who,
few short years since, were sacrificing
life and all earthly possessions to blot out
from our fair fame the name and ,xistence
of less injurious and offensive system
The result is inevitable. For years legis-
lation in these United States was controlled
solely by the single rule of "niggcr''-
foreign and domestic questions were de-
cided in grave councils by the quality of
bearing they had upon Sambo. How will
it be in few years now? Why the politi-
cal pulse of the nation will beat to the tune
of John Chinaman for series of years
when again the pen will be laid down, the
tongue silenced, add the clash of arms tell |
us whether we shall or shall not endure |
this new system of slavery. Our white
working men will leave starving wives and
children, and assert their demands for food !
and clothing at the cannon's mouth Is this
dreaming? Is this the language of "a dream
er and alarmist? Yes, just such dreaming
as the Abolitionists of old had, when thev
told us that black slavery would revolu-
tionize the land, and fill our homes with |
tears and mourning. Is history to repeat
itself! Let the Republican party think
well of this matter. This Asiatic coclie
traffic is pregnant with social and political
disorder, and sooner or later we will pay
dearly for it. We know not if the Demo
cratic party would check this reconstruction
of slavery if that party were in power, but
We do know that the political party doing
so will be the party for the Nation. We
are not quarreling with the rights of any
foreign people to come to this land partici
pate with us il the blessing of liberty and
free labor, but are protesting against the
importation of slaves who ruin and humil-
late free labor-who emphatically, by their
presence and work, draw decided line be-
tween the working poor and capitalists =
As Republicans Americans, we call
upon the next Republican Congress to
suppress this nefarious business by the
severest penalties of law. If Koopmans-
chap and other slave dealers are not check
ed by the Republican psrty in their recon.
structiou of slavery in the United States,
then the Republican party is fraud, and
should be destroyed amidst shouts of in.
dignation and derisiou Every day, in
the Christian city of Sacramento, car load
after car load of Cinnamon may be seen |
packed closely, like sheep or hogs, awaiting
transportation to various points for slave |
labor. They are slaves in every sense of
the word, having no rights whatever, and |
are treated as slaves by their mereiless