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report of 23 July 1867. The British he says has done much to improve the condition of things in Canton and it is my firm belief that in the course of time were we to pursue its exports, the confidence of the Chinese would attach itself and a really "spontaneous Emigration" be induced.

Mr Herbert has sent I suppose a copy of these notes to us. We have had a fraction of enlistment very ...

A small inducement to the Redeanine Cooly to come to the country is the control of all danger of ... labour; "But I fear that under the Treaty Chinese Cooly emigration from English ports is reserved for kidnapping and we shall become parties to it and I am sure that we will have to attend to its attendant evils however reluctantly we may have to retrace our late steps and determine that no Chinese shall be employed under indenture in British Colonies.

The larger question involved in the cooly trade lately investigated is a difficult one. I have come a good way towards the opinion that it is not a traffic which can be regulated, and that on the whole France & Portugal are not comfortable examples for India which is increasing its labour exports with great rapidity, enough can be drawn from that source for the moment free from direct connection with Chinese kidnapping.

Should we not pause to consider the consequences before connecting with it? It is not to be responded that China is the only place at which unscrupulous men will kidnap Coolies. Wherever a demand is established a supply will be provided in the same nefarious ways. It is hard to keep our hands clean from the stain of great evil not merely in a contravention of law but in weight with Portugal & ...

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report of 23 July 1867. The British he says has done much to improve the condition of things in Canton and it is my firm belief that in the course of time were we to pursue its exports, the confidence of the Chinese would attach itself and a really "spontaneous Emigration" be induced. Mr Herbert has sent I suppose a copy of these notes to us. We have had a fraction of enlistment very ... A small inducement to the Redeanine Cooly to come to the country is the control of all danger of ... labour; "But I fear that under the Treaty Chinese Cooly emigration from English ports is reserved for kidnapping and we shall become parties to it and I am sure that we will have to attend to its attendant evils however reluctantly we may have to retrace our late steps and determine that no Chinese shall be employed under indenture in British Colonies. The larger question involved in the cooly trade lately investigated is a difficult one. I have come a good way towards the opinion that it is not a traffic which can be regulated, and that on the whole France & Portugal are not comfortable examples for India which is increasing its labour exports with great rapidity, enough can be drawn from that source for the moment free from direct connection with Chinese kidnapping. Should we not pause to consider the consequences before connecting with it? It is not to be responded that China is the only place at which unscrupulous men will kidnap Coolies. Wherever a demand is established a supply will be provided in the same nefarious ways. It is hard to keep our hands clean from the stain of great evil not merely in a contravention of law but in weight with Portugal & ...
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