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It is universally known that the introduction of Coolies alone saved some of the West India islands front destruction as a result of cmauidimticm; but it is also known that their introduction among the blacks is attendedwith tioublesome and dangerous nuarrels 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 require, 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 fee 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 freedmen ; and then* is certainly a large force of sound sen'i-ment in favor of letting the negro know that freedom and idleness are not syn mymous terms. Some trouble would already be required to unteach certain lessons which the freed -men have learned from their having been fed here and there at the expense of toe Government. That one thing, small as it*has been in proportion to the number of the negroes, has spread a teudency 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, Ten- | nesstv and Geo gia papers before us say it is j the case there; ami a Washington writer asserts that there is very good reason for the prevailing report that the negro feed ng association, or Bureau, at tin* Capitol is unable to supply the demands upon it for labor—the reasons being that its proteges utterly refuse to be hired. Ladies here have gone to the Government negro quarters to hire, and have been most imoudentlv dismissed with—“1t *thanks you ma am; I doesn't choose to work ; I cits ’uuff to live on widout it !” There is abundant reason for the plain intimation of General Fullerton that the negroes are supposing their Bureau to have been instituted “to nurse and pamper’’ them, “to clothe and feed them.'5 and to give them “privileges that other p rsons do not enjoy.*’ It is impos ible to make the administration of the Bureau uniform, as that will differ according to the seuti mentsof she'ocal agents. *A Southern Union man, unconoprising. I l II I ... * ’t... V\vv-1^
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Galveston Tri Weekly News
Galveston, Texas, US
Mon, Oct 30, 1865
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