COOLIES IN PERU.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2080, 23 October 1880, Page 3

COOLIES IN PERU.

Lima (according to a Home paper) is the meeting-point of many races. As M~ Wiener, in the transcendental language of science informs us, the Church on her holidays gathers there, as nowhere else, the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japhet, whom the Bible knows, and the Mongol, the Tartar, the Indian, whom it does not know.” But the Chinaman is the future master Coolie, or freeman, already he is everywhere) in domestic service, in all branches of trade> even in medical practice. The negro slaves were enfranchised in 1854, and Chinese coolies were substituted. They are slaves without the name. They have no wives, for the Celestial Government does not permit women to bo exported. They sign an illusory agreement by which they place themselves at the absolute disposal of a master for the term of eight years. It was the interest of the slaveowner k to prolong "the life of his slaves. The master of the coolie thinks only of obtaining from his servant eight years of hard labor, and it is a horrible fact that many of the poor creatures are worked to death before they reach the term of their brief engagement. But the revenge may come at any moment in a dreadful servile war. Fifty or sixty thousand men, packed together like cattle in large enclosures, kept in order with whip and revolver, rendered desperate by vicious living, and burning with revenge, may explode, like a powder magazine, in an instant.