the prohibition of the Coolie Trade also against those States which have an interest in its contimane.
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In this respect neither would an arrangement such as that which was agreed to in 1866 between the Western Powers & China, in expectation of the Accession of the other States, but which was not ratified
not ratified by the former,
have been
rufficient to do away
the Coolie Brada
with
The judgment of famous Statesian of various Nationalities, and public opinion
on in all civilised Countries agree, be taken as notorious that
4 it may the Coolie Trade as it is carried on from Macas, copecially to Peru, Cuba, a separate Central American Republies, in regard to the means for the socalled engagement of the Cookies & also for their shipment, their treatment during the boy
and
and their ultionate fate, is but
a
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counterfeit of the Plave Trade Therefore the same meaus appear
justifiable against the Coolie Trade
as are
internationally sanctioned
against the Slave Trach.
Besides the international right to.
there is for
Employ those means,
those states which have Treaty relation, with China
important Interation
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Interest, inasmuch as it has been.
repeatedly attested from authoritation sources that the exasperation produced among the Chinese - population by the Costia hade is injurious to the Commercial interent, of all the Western Countries in those. parts, & fitted to put in jespardy the personal safety of all foreigners residing in China. The question of putting
an and to the Coolie Trade is,
in
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