I was reading recently a pAthetic memorial addressed to the English Government by the Chinese imperial commissioner. Linn. In this memo ial he pleads for his people and says: " Not to use opium ones self. yet to. venture upon- the manufacture and: sale of it. andwith it to seduce the simple people of this land. is to seek ones own advantage. by other men s injury. is to seek ones adwntage by exposingothers to death. Such acts are utterly abhorrent to the nature of man and utterly opposed to the ways of Heaven." To use the- language of Dennis Kearney. " Hows that fbr a Mongolian leper and heathen Chinee "? Mind you. Mr.
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Chinese people are associated with opium use and are considered 'heathen'.