of this policy, but expects to meet with vehement opposition from his Countrymen in China, both merchants and Missionaries.
In Conversing on the subject of the importation of Coolies into this Country, Mr Low said that he was personally extremely averse to it, except so far as they might come of their own accord and at their own expense. But if they were imported by speculators upon contracts made in China, and if the expense to the U.S. were paid by the latter to be reimbursed by the immigrants, he did not doubt that it would become nothing less than a disguised Slave Trade. He considered that the best prevention of this Evil would be an Act of Congress declaring that Contracts for labour made in China could not be enforced in this Country. This would effectively prevent both speculators and employers from risking the Capital necessary for the travelling expenses of the immigrant and the Commissions of Agents, and such a measure he had recommended his Government to initiate in the approaching Session of Congress.
Mr Low looked upon Messrs Koopmanschap & Co. as adventurers.
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