Trade with the capital. It is agreed that no citizen of the United States shall have the privilege of entering the capital city of Peking for the purposes of tade. In none of these treaties does it appear that the Chinese intended or desired to emigrate to the United States. but all the terms of these conventions seem to be directed to protecting China against the coming of Americans except on the most limited conditions. and an entire exclusion from the interior of the empire. This wasthe condition of things until July. 1868 when "additional articles" were signed. which have been commonly known as the Burlingame treaty. This treaty undertook to legislate upon the civil relations of the Chinese within the United States and within the several States. under the pretense of establishing equal reciprocities between the two countries.
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