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Rutland Herald
Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont
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Unprecedented opium trade in China this year: 30,000 chests sold for $18 million, draining coin and bullion, causing misery. Urges British to end it like slavery abolition to prevent ruin.
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"The opium traffic has been carried on during the present year to an extent unprecedented in any former one. Not less than 30,000 chests have been sold here and on the coast, at an average price of not less than $600 per chest, drawing from the country coin and bullion to the amount of eighteen millions of dollars, and leaving to thousands misery, wretchedness and ruin.
Where is the power which at one blow swept slavery from every land over which the British flag waves? There is a wide field for their philanthropy here. It has been proved that they have the power, and they cannot exercise it too soon; for so sure as the sun rises and sets, if the trade of opium is forced upon China, and increases the next twenty years at the same rate it has done for the last twenty, it will end in their utter ruin."
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China
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The Present Year
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drawing from the country coin and bullion to the amount of eighteen millions of dollars, and leaving to thousands misery, wretchedness and ruin
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The opium traffic has been carried on during the present year to an extent unprecedented in any former one. Not less than 30,000 chests have been sold here and on the coast, at an average price of not less than $600 per chest. It has been proved that they have the power, and they cannot exercise it too soon; for so sure as the sun rises and sets, if the trade of opium is forced upon China, and increases the next twenty years at the same rate it has done for the last twenty, it will end in their utter ruin.