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such a traffic upon a nation that has, by her great sacri-
vices (in connection with the opium trade) recently shown
her worth and right of protection against another evil321
mally dangerous,
My Committee venture to appeal to you, in view of the
ergency of the matter, to use the influence of the British
"overment to protect China in her struggle for liberty,
That she be not defeated by another Western evil being
thrust upon her.
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I have, etc.
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A. E. Blackburn.
Secretary.
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