The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-07-20
The New Style of New England SIa-
very.

AS the New England people were
the first to introduce African slavery
in this country andmaintain it as long
as it was profitable, it is in accordance
with the eternal fitness of things that
the ingenious descendants of the Pill
grims devise a new scheme of slavery
that will be profitable to them. This
has been done by the Introduction of
Chinese labor in Massachusetts,, and
ther re are now in that State a colony
of coolie shoemakers, bought and i'm
ported for the purpose of competing
with the halfpaid white workingmen,
and enhance the profits of the rich
manufacturers. The system differs
very little from the former system OF
African slavery in the Puritan States,
but has the additional Objection thatiu
not only makes slaves out OF the
heather Chinese, but paupers out OF
civilized white labors. When it wa
proposed to introduce white labor o.
the South as q substitute for the slavS
labor destroyed by the war, a tremen-
dous howl issued from loyal Threats,
and especially those of the PuritanS,
that this WAS but another way to re-
establish slavery Ii the rebel States.
Congress took teton, the pulpit re-
sounded with denunication, and the
Abolition press was indignant and
Mortified. Now that the same thing
has been actually accomplished in
Massachusetts,, these same loyal or
gans approve of it. The New York
Tribune wants the Chinese here in or
der to c~ivilize them ; the Cincinnati
Commercial pleads for their introduce
ton to humble the pride and indepen-
dence OF lalor, and the Ohio State
Journal wants them to effectually sub
due he ''odious doctrine of caste."-
1t may he safely assumed that all the
organs. that follow the lead of New
England are in favor of the introduce
ton of the Chinese; and that the Alb
clifton party is committed to the
scheme so far as its organs can COM
NIT it. 1t is one of tine most hideous
of all TIE plots to Cypress and degrade
the working man ever devised by the
baleful genius of the Yankee.
The character of the Chinese people
is well understood by iHsslfsaat:d
Americans, They can work.
most nothing and baard themselves
on the yermin they engender. Amer
lean aoorers stand no chance of COM
peting with them, and this is the mo-
tive Of the capitalists in introducing
them. They want to beat down the
rate of wages, while maintaining a
high protective tariff to keep up the
prices of their goods. On all sides
the p eople are swindled by these cruel
and voracious monopolists. whose
grasping avarice would reduce the
poor to servitnde and elevate the rich
into a titled a~ristocracy. The Chi
nese element being introduced, it
must be granted, threatens to prove
an cfectual instrumentality in pro-
noting this scheme.
What do the laboring men of the
country think of the conspiracy
against them as it stands? Can they
be 20 blind as not to perceive the ul-
timato effect of these schemes to
bring Chinese here in shoals to thrust
them from their work benches and
appropriate their wages? Will they
continue to follow the lead and keep in
official power the men devoted to the
monopolists, who are introducing this
new and odious system of contract
slavery We think a negative can
safely be given to these questions
The shoe-makers of Massachusetts,.
upon whom the first blow fell. are al
ready putting in their protest, and
threaten to affect a political revolu-
ton in that benighted State. which
is the only means of averting n great
peril. They have finally discovered
the hypocrisy of the cauting fanatics,
who have deluded them with loud
sounding pretenses of freedom, phi
lanthropy and reform !; and they are
now making preparations to change
their tactics and their votes. Work
ingmen in all other States should at
once prepare to do the same thing,
and those who have heretofore voted
with the Abolition party to emanci
pate the negroes should begin to pro-
tect themselves with their votes. 1t
is doubtful whether a distinctive labor
movement would succeed in time TO
prevent impending dangers and the
speediest way to affect the end would
be for all laboring men, who are
proud of their calling and their liber-
ty, to vote with the Democracy-the
organization which has ever been the
foe OF monopolies and the friend Of
labor.
Politicians may take warning of
the importance of this labor movement.
1t is an element full of vigor, and
will rapidly grow strong and agrees
i've. The introduction of the new
system of Chinese slavery by the
leading Abolition State of the Union
has aw akened a popular feeling ofin-
dignation that will sweep many of the
bogus philanthropists into an obscure
ty from which they emerged only to
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