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.