labor. And as negroes will not labor, unless compelled, there is, therefore, no way left in the Divine Providence to accomplish this, but that of their enslavement.
That the English put no dependence in the dispositions of the freed blacks to do the work of their plantations in the West India Islands, and elsewhere in their various and great possessions in different parts of the world, is shown in their new expedient of inveigling away from their homes and country, a certain class of the natives of India, called Hill Coolies, who they employ instead of the slaves they have freed, whose labor will cost them even less than their former slave labor. For an account of the Hill Coolie business, see Little's Museum of Literature, Science and Art, Vol. 34, No. 189, p. 140, year 1838.
These Hill Coolies are not negroes, but a yellow, swarthy race, of the lowest of the laboring casts in India. According to the work above quoted, it is said that there are circumstances attending the inveigling these men from their country, to traverse half the globe in quest of labor, which shows that some principle, far enough from justice or mercy, actuates the English in this business, notwithstanding their seemingly noble generosity in manumitting their slaves, which is trumpeted over the whole earth, as a deed of immense benevolence and sacrifice. The Parliament of England do not often make sacrifices in their bargains, nor relinquish their grasp of power, in any particular, gratuitously; if they did, they would not oppress their own subjects as they do, on which account the great mass of their people lack their
