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|:y lt;0 .%# lt;* t*«a. - 'Vi* IruHl 'i'f A^-H? \fp’i'S-' “f tb** Stilt’ W ii) avail thrm^: U « «-f -vfrj -■ r.4B pfc'VM't t*f'! * T 50 fSs'I'r'i ?'3* *1 fl? t tl • V ««4 » *' ' ’r* • *? ■; lt;i ? M••Av\l-i;_ I- - ’ w»' h'%V0 asrcijr Ar-A-r * t i J =:4* *’ r»; ^ \ 'i; ,4,:,- o- ■ ' • TT 1 •* * • j ■ I Jtr.af* w ,-l h-pai ir* c^-rMum hftf.-ip m:*, nlt;0. m, :v t,; ai-^in time, th^ iMjrUibtK n‘ of our roc * pt* , ,.•’with cm Harrs.?? mlt;Miis • »■ hol! v *■Mijy The Local Agent* *#f the “»ws -vtiT'-othom Ibr* 5LUo aro rlt;qiw*!*4 to *oivl any !'un»Uos ban-! Hr o.tlo'r tho “ lt;V*oim*rctal or sho “A-lsm* J F»ip*v«s ’ Whro these Fxpresfies are not wUhn th» r T^ach, they «tU confer a favor by fending by any safe means that may oflVr. Drafts in our favor on merchant* i is H'-uistosi or tiaiveston *'li ^ taken and coifertod.r 7 rt, 'lt; New*. H'Oaton.adiitlbi1,1fty**The Ag» nt of th* ‘ Commercial Express | It,Cutup *’ v. at H«Mnp-dond. ha* kin llv vo!unt**orelt;t to do ■ re* I a'; j Vof •* The N\nv- * to our anW.viber? at that place until S »*rth ooaiiA ire eM »brs!v’i Prggr* Mr. :;'?t»Kf Hf.viiot si js our authorized A^-nt al *i wc'tlt;o» a.9-loCOino\OlCltiltoit80tilScvetoCOthhatosi I ri{zotoorsvifrefoeswthtodtoctrtoP5 ♦81toTaitoeivsItoliticcforttl81aty Wo call attention to the largo assort.' moot of boots and shoes just received by Mr. J w O. A. Forsgard, who has reum*d business*! the old stand, Van Alstyue’s Building, corner of Main and Congress streets. Give him a call. lotii }HCoOLIES SEGltOES ; j,Clearly, our agricultural labor system is j ;dbow the chief concern; and, while it must he jje true th -t time will have to contribute much to 1 the settlement of the questions arising out of emancipation, it is also true that at ten ion cannot be too earnestly directed towards every scheme which seems to promise the deliver-euce of our planters out of a state of dependence, and the rescue of our lands from the encroaching jungle.The Picayune informs us that an enterprising firm in New Orleans, having abundant means and foreign connections, besides being familiar with the whole business of Coolie imperii on, recently addressed Mr. Seward on the subject. Their communication was referred to the Bureau of Immigration, which replied thut the Coolie trade was prohibited by an act of Congress of 1862, which makes it a severe penal off nee for our registered ships to engage in the deportation of Chinese to any foreign port, with a view of holding them toservitude, or as laborers for a term of years.But the same act provides that no obstacle shall be offered to the voluntary immigration of the Chinese, and as a proof of the' voluntary character of the deportation, it requires a j ^ ’Certificate of the United States Consuls in ‘China,It is universally known that the introduction of Coolies alone saved some of the West India islands from destruction as a result of cxnauiiimticm; but If is also known that theirintroduction among the blacks is attendedwith tioublesome and dangerous quarrels and fights. Their value as laborers, intrinsically, is admitted; still, like the Picayune, we feel the need of more detailed information from the countries where they have been used, as well as of a discussion concerning the changes in our law- which their introduction would re. -quire, and the probable effects upon our social •welfareIt does strike us, however, that there is some thing more violent in the institution of the Coolie system among us than there would be in the adoption of two other remedies ; first, the encouragement of white immigration to a limited extent at least; and, secondly, in forcing the negroes to work. It is thought that the increase of white labor would have a good industrial effect upon the freedmeu ; and there is certainly a large force of sound sentiment in favor of letting the negro know that freedom and idleness are not syn mymous terms. S me trouble would already be required to unteach certain lessons which the freed-men have learned from their having been fed | s here and there at the expense of toe Government. That one thing, small as itfhas been in , proportion to the number of the negroes, has spread a tendency to idleness tbtough the whole black population. Wherever they have jbeen thus maintained they have utterly refused | to work. It has been the case here ; Missouri, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, Carolina, Tennessee and Geo gia papers before us say it is the case there; and a Washington writer asserts that there is very good reason for the prevailing report that the negro feeding association, or Bureau, at tin* Capitol is unable to supply the demands upon it for labor—the reason* being that its pri)teglt;$ uttely refuse to be hired. Ladies here have gone to the |r Government negro quarters to hire, and have j lt;been most imoudentiv dismissed with—‘‘It *thanks you ma am; I doesn’t choose to work ;,I cits ’tiuff to live on widout it !” There is j * abundant reason for the plain intimation of i 1 General Fullerton that the negroes are suppos-1 lt;ing their Bureau to have been instituted “to i 1 nurse and pamper’’ them, “to clothe and feed them ” and to give them “privileges that other persons do not enjoy.'* It tsimpos ibie to make the administration of the Bureau uniform, as that will differ according to the genii meats of ihe ocal agents. vA Southern Union man, uncoraprisingthrough al! !. v/ .* Euo New York |Lxpress, giving a plan for such an organization of Southern labor as will conduce to the prosperity alike of North and South. Tin* j Express says his plan comes too lata, but re-j eomrrn-nus such parts of it as may yet he jadopt*-d. , !The writer has been a large slave owner and i cotton planter*. That such a man should advise a going back as far as possible to some Tftdu'U system of emancipation, letting freedom be understood as a fi xed fact, but freeing the negro gradually from the limited control 4f hfs former master, as the only possible menu*, in his opinion, of saving the South,shows, we think, that there are serious dimeiib ities, in the present situation* He rtinks his plan is the only one which will nover the ijouth from bankruptcy, enable her to payhlt;ftirnlistf-idacsitlndtlnvorVct(
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Galveston Tri Weekly News
Galveston, Texas, US
Mon, Oct 30, 1865
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