242 PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AMERICA. 



Great cities and ports must be raised on the West 

 coasts to trade with China, with 500 millions of people, to 

 supply them with grain, timber, &c., and to receive from 

 them such articles as America requires, and cannot pro 

 duce as cheaply; and it is of paramount importance to 

 America that the opium trade oe suppressed. 



