No such fact exists in history. I wish to remind my able friend what has happened. The cities to which the foreign commerce went. after the ships docked from point to point for lading or unlading. reserved the right. in the name of the conservation of health and protection as against immigration. in such matters as protection against the importation of cholera. to levy a form of duty and a form of obligation upon every one of such ships. We could not complain. They were doing that which we did on the Atlantic coast as against vessels of other nations. and as we did on the Pacific.
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