[Untitled], January 16, 1867

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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 prevent the establishment in its place of a mode of enslaving men differing from the former in little else than the employment of fraud instead of force to make its victims captive: Be it therefore—

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.

Ordered, That the Secretary lay the foregoing resolution before the President of the United States.

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