iM'J PRESENT AX1) Fl.'Tl'HE OF AMERICA. 



Great cities and ports must be raised on the West 

 coasts to trade with China, with ."><.!< > millions of people, to 

 Mipply them witli grain, timber, &e.,and to receive from 

 tiirni such articles as America requires, and cannot pro- 

 duce as cheaply; and it is of paramount importance to 

 America that the opium trade be suppressed. 



