CO129-054 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [1-2] — Page 243

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rganizations, discipline and unity 忄

which is mort remarkable, and

camust be curpaced by any other

Countries that I Know of, - only imagine

the

in event of our being involved in ~ difficulties, how adversely there freiches secretly assembled in Bambling Aonics unsupervised, might thus unwatched and unknown, conspire against Government and operate perhaps most disactiously to us. I do not perceive that the Farm would in any way conduce to demoralize on be fraught with evils to, the Chinese

Community, or through

them to the other (non Chinese) residents on this Island, the strong stjection

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to the measure exists in our viewing the Chinese in the same

as Ive

light as

do ourselves, judging of them thus erroneously, the objection is in our own minds, our own habits, emanating mainly from the horror entertained by us of this vice when we were

from

from

the time

first able to distinguish

but we

between night and wrong;

not forget

may not

for

whom we are

wrong; but the spet numbers

Legislating, and

whore opinions (as I have before

remarked) on this point, are so totally at variance with those Europeans! As an

experiment

of

I

would respectfully recommend that the system now in force