Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-07-27

her arms around the youngest, wailing in a
most piteous manner, and as Arr Hung
said, curslng the men that sold her husband
ticket to America for $500, which cost
] them but $40. The broker sat listlessly
by, smoking his pipe and twirling his cane,
looking as if it was the smallest matter of
business with him. The boys were crying,
and seemed very much afraid of us now
it was certain that ore of them must 90.
But we passed on and left them in their
misery. We never knew whether the boy
was sold to childless man to be treated as
son, to Portuguese to be carried to the
West Indies under a nominal contract, or
to native landowner to be his slave. But
that one of them was sold into servitudc
for the sum of fifty dollars, there can be
no doubt. The girls were doubtless pur-
chased for the vilest of purposes, unless
they had the rare luck to fall into the
hands of some native in search of a legit-
innate wife.
am told that the price of girls has
gone up within few months, owing, per-
haps, TO the fact that less number of
s l9ss aass THrssitSe @as the case six months
ago. l was shown four bright. plump, rosy
appearing girls yesterday, who were pur-
chased less than year ago the whole lot
for eighty dollars. Now they will sell
readily for three hundred dollars each. To
quote the state of the human market may
seem rather odd to my New England
readers, but here it is a matter of the
smallest moment. Men care not who is
sold or what family is broken up, for there
are no ties that interest Europeans in any
thing but the teas and money which the
Chimes bring. As for the Chinese them
selves, they have seen their neighbors so
often sold for debt, either for life or for a
certain time, that they treat it in the light
of necessary evil, and make the best of
it. TOe result, however, of United States
legislation upon the Chinese immigration
questioa, seems to be disastrous to all par
ties concerned. 1t keeps out thousands of
Chinese that are anxious to get to the
( United States. 1t makes more slaves
more misery, and indirectly does greater
injustice to both Americans and Chinameu
ban the terribA coolie trade of the Portu.
Do you u that the Chimamen need
not run such risks? ? | say that he does not
know a1y better. and besides, be has many
powerful reasons for wishing to react
America, as l shall attempt to show IN my
next letter. The Chinese are human and
being so, have all the pains, loves, hates
prides and affections that characterize othei
nationaities. They feel the loss Of theil
children as much as do European parents
In fact, more so; for beside the ties o
nature, they have a great religious lnteres
I in their children, whose worship they neeC
after death, TO keep their souls from hell
The mother who parts with her child re
! linquishes all claim on it here and here
after,-and after giving 1t all the httl
comforts she thinks it may need, blesses
\ and goes away 10 mourn as long as sh
I lives for the child she has lost,-less &
her than though it were dead. And tn
/ United States law, which acts IN no
wise as preventative of the cruelties o
the PoEaguese contract system,-out onl,
Y Americas shippers.-whlie IL causes tn
I lawful Migrant TO the United States to b
swindled' out of three or four times hi
passage money, and while giving him
/ freedom he does not desire or need, en-
slaves his whole family, and perhaps him
self should he return TO find an uncaneele
debt, is one that ought never to disgrac
the records of American legislation. Wer
the ports of America open to the Chinese
and were they allowed to sign contracts t,
work out their passage after their arrival
not only would the coolie get his passag
for one third of what he now pays tn
brokers, but all that tide now going into tn
Spanish and English colonies, would foV
into America,-cheapening food and man
ufactures, and adding thousands of million
to the wealth of the United States. Tn
Portuguese could not get single China
man If all could go to the United State:
Their first attempt is always to get +
America, and failing in that they accep
other offers