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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