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Yankee ! Ye outside barbarians, buy our teas and our 

 silks. We are out of opium ; no smoke since morning !&quot; 

 And both parties hand over in cash 16,000,000 dollars, 

 and nearly as much more in goods ; and then sweep across 

 the mighty waters with a collection of forest leaves ; and 

 that is the way to increase the trade with China. 



It was argued, on the part of England, if we can in 

 duce the Chinese only to wear a cotton night-cap each, 

 367,000,000 night-caps ! Why, the whole of Lancashire 

 would become one continuous city. Manchester and 

 Liverpool would kiss each other ; and all England would 

 .have been under one perpetual cloud of factory smoke. 

 And what a day that would be for cotton in America ! 

 Ambitious men would pitch all idea of a future president 

 ship of the South Atlantic States to Old Nick, and scam 

 per off to pick cotton bolls ! But the disobliging Chinese 

 will buy opium, which he, in his humble ideas, considered 

 more inducive to a nap than a cotton night-cap. More 

 than that, they have the audacity to go almost naked, 

 or wear a sheepskin turned inside out, and even to grow 

 cotton, spin, and weave it, and sell it to buy opium, 

 and even tea, from his neighbor. Yes ; let America 

 push on her cotton at an undervalue of 30 per cent, 

 to what it had been some years ago, and let England 

 push on cotton piece goods made from that, at a loss of 

 35 per cent., upon a trade, taken both ways, all to cap 

 the Chinese and clothe the Indian. Yes ; let England 

 and America be the servants of servants ; and, as they 

 are the boasted first-class of the human race, show these 

 Mongolian races that they will forget the bases of all perma 

 nent wealth cultivation to dress and deck them out with 

 fancy robes, at such losses, forsooth, to have a great trade ! 



