Charles Sumner. reported from the Committee on Foreign Relations a resolution. and the resolution was unanimously adopted by the Senate. which read as follows: Whereas the traffic in laborers transported from China and other Eastern countries. known as the cooly 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. Mr. Sumner. in reporting that resolution. made this statement: I will readSaid he: I will read a very brief letterwhich basbeenput into my hands. dated "Hong Kong.