You will send the Chinese to the South. you will flood our plantations with them. you will engage them by the hundreds of thousands in diking the Mississippi River. you will let them loose upon our society there. and you will expect us to take care of them and of the negroes also. Gentlemen. it is an impossibility. I know there are large planters in the South. men who have heretofore held on to the plantationsystem almost with the grasp of death. reluctant to give up that which gave them once so much power and case and comfort. who now desire that Chinese coolies shall be brpught there and be subjectod to them under contracts ranging from five to fifteen and twenty years. so that they may reestablish the plantation system. But that is against the genius of our country today. and it is the greatest damper that could be thrown upon the prosperity of our people. Nothing could be deprecated so much as that by a man who has got any concern for his own blood. for his own race and his own kindred in that land.