Year: 1870

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