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It is argued by some persons iu this Country, 

 that any interference with these treaties would be 

 objectionable as opposed to the full freedom which 

 ought to be given to every man living under 

 British Rule, to carry his labor to the best market. 

 But this idea seems to have originated, rather in 

 a misconception, of the true principle involved, 

 and a fear of being wrecked among the rocks and 

 shallows of Protection, than from any desire to support 

 a policy that must prove detrimental to the interests 

 the Country. As long, however, as protection is the 

 recognized policy of Government in its Home De- 

 partment, and these treaties require special Acts to 

 over ride the Law of the Laud, such arguments in 

 relation to treaties with foreign powers, must appear 

 a little whimsical. To concede to the natives of 

 India, the freedom of carrying their labor to any 

 market they please is one thing, -and to con- 

 cede to foreign powers the right to send agents 

 into your territories to entice away the labor which 

 your own country requires for reclaiming culturable 

 waste land is quite another. The one is a right the 

 natives enjoy, or ought to enjoy, in virtue of their 

 subjection to British rule. The other is a right I 

 have yet to learn that any nation on the face of the 

 globe has thought proper to concede to foreigners. 

 The one right involves a principle which is an 

 important element of the British Constitution. The 

 other a principle which if carried to the extreme 



