Volume 14 — DENUNCIATION OF THE COOLIE TRADE.
Reading edition
Resolution in the Senate, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, January 16, 1867.
The following resolution was reported by Mr. Sumner, who asked the immediate action of the Senate upon it.
Whereas the traffic in laborers transported from China and other Eastern countries, known as the Coolie trade, is odious to the people of the United States as inhuman and immoral;
And whereas it is abhorrent to the spirit of modern international law and policy, which have substantially extirpated the African slave-trade, to permit the establishment in its place of a mode of enslaving men different from the former in little else than the employment of fraud instead of force to make its victims captive: Therefore
Be it resolved, That it is the duty of this Government to give effect to the moral sentiment of the Nation through all its agencies, for the purpose of preventing the further introduction of coolies into this hemisphere or the adjacent islands.
The resolution was adopted.