I will go further: and the penalty was made death whenever the laws should be violated. Not only this. the emperor has in some cases issued his edicts against transportation with the consent of the emigrants. when learning that misrepresentations of promised advantages led to the transportation of his people where they were badly treated. notably one case was against the transportation to Peru with their consent. I have looked very carefully at the Revised Statutes of the United States. and I fail to find the first word of any law that we have passed to meet that obligation upon us which it is alleged the Chinese government have not complied with. Then we are the party dereict. and not the Chinese government.
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