New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-04
THE Heather ghInee."

A special correspondent 10 the Cincinnati
/ Commercial. who FOR the presen. is sojourniug
In the ancient town of Tuscaloosa the 0uopddp,
capital of Alabama, in letter dated at that
city. tells how q trick that was dark - was
played upon Mr.. j. T. Stanton, the contractor.
who is building one of the great Southern lines
of railroad. that takes Tuscaloosa in its course :
:" For ways that are dark and tricks that are
vain the heather Chinee is not near as peculiar
as the white man. which | am free TO maintain
and will rise to explain
Last July Stanton brought over thousand
! Cinnamon from the Pacific coast to work on his
! railroad. Their transportation alone cost him
| over hundred thousand dollars in gold But
/ as he had to have his road completed BY the
| first of June next, be was compelled TO have
additional help from some quarter The result
was only partial success, rs it was found that
one negro would do the work of two Cinnamon
But as the Chinese only received about half
the pay the negroes did, the amount stood about
even.
about half these Cinnamon were. a few
weeks ago, got away from Stanton in manner
which illustrates that our own noble race are
as tricky as the heather Chinee A New Or
| leans adyenturer. named A. Nissan, a white
man, of course, took it into his head to make
| few honest pennies cut of the heathens that
Stanton had imported, aud set about his plans
| bearing the elegant name kang All Roak, to
| help him. They first opened a correspondence
with the Chinese on the road. breeding dis
content among them, telling them they could
| do so much better on Louisiana Plantations
About the first of February these two conspi-
rators came TO this city TO perfect their plans
| for bagging as many of the heather as possible
In about a mouth they came again bringing
with them the agent of a New Orleans emigrant
/ hnuSa WI haH dv m To he CON
terprise.' A steamer was chartered and all.
went well. when j. p. Stanton got wind of the
movement, aud bad the rngleaders arrested
| They gave bail and returned to New Orleans,
where they filed petition before the United
States Circuit Court, swearing that the Stan
tons illegally restrained two hundred aud twelve
Cinnamon of their liberty, III violation of the
| feelings of said Cinnamon, and OF the Constitu-
! tion of the United States. They got their writ
and returned to this city with man purporting
to be United States Marshal, who served it
upon Stanton aud others, and subpmnaed as
witnesses IN the matter the two hundred aud
twelve Cinnamon mentioned in the writ.
"This was sharp trick and adroitly PLAYED
Who ever heard of two hundred and twelve
witnesses being summoned TO prove a single
fact For fear the heathens would not fully
understand the awful majesty of subpoena III
this enlightened country an armed guard was
summoned to appear at Mobile, but as soon as
the boat reached there they were hurried on to
the cars and taken to New Orleans, where they
were distributed out to the planters to work on
the adjacent sugar and cotton plantations. That
is what became OF the Witnesses
" W hen the case was called at court Mr.
Stanton appeared, as did also Cheminant and
Chin Poo, two Cinnamon who came here with
the Chinese, not employees, but for the pur-
pose OF looking after the temporal welfare of
their countrymen. They confirmed Mr.. Stan
tons testimony IN every particular, and eX-
planned the contract under which the Cinnamon
! came TO Alabama. His honor, the Judge was
puzzled. 1t began to draw upon his mind that
the solemn process OF his Court had been used to
steal Cinnamon.
=" He looked IN vain Tor o precedent to throw
some light on the subject. There was no prrce-
dent. Dir. Stanton desired to know what had
become OF the two hundred and twelve wit.
nesses that had been summoned. Nobody seemed
to know where they were. The Judge finally
decided that as no witnesses had put IN an APP
pearance for the compliments, although over
two hundred had been subpsnaed, he would dis
mss the respondents.
In this way a scheming white man took
two hundred and twelve Cinnamon from the
employ of Mr.. Stanton, and spirited them away
to New Orleans. Was there ever such trick
performed before? Who bat white man would
have ever thought of subpenaing over two hun
dred witnesses IN case that he never intended to
try? Yet it worked well, and paid the schemer
handsomely. For ways that are dark and tricks
that are vain the white man is more peculiar
than the men Of any other color