We have waited eight months. and here is the first effort to repeal the contractlabor law. We have tried to pass this bill for days. but its consideration has been objected to by one of the commissioners who went to Hawaii to frame laws for the government of that unfortunate and unhappy country. We find. then. this situation: The contract laborer is filling the place of the day laborer. the sugar planters are bringing in their help at the rate of 3.000 a month. and now it is proposed that they shall be permitted to continue to import slaves until Congress meets again. No American free laborers have gone there since annexation. and those who had gone there before have been unable to find employment. while 10.400 Asiatics have been brought in. and yet the Administration. representing the Republican party. the party that owes its being to its protest against slavery. is responsible for this condition of affairs. and has refused to furnish legislation for the government of that Territory. They have refused to repeal the slavelabor laws of Hawaii. What would Abraham Lincoln.
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