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Excerpt from Let Us Not Do Evil That Good May Come: A Letter Addressed to the Directors and Supporters of Bible and Missionary Societies
All this your agents and advocates have a better Opportunity of knowing than almost any class of the community. And would it not be natural to expect, that having felt their hearts stirred with Christian charity on behalf of the poor benighted Chinese, they would be disposed - as Las Casas did, as David Brain'erd did, as Dr. Philip did, as Knibb and Burchell did when that most truculent of all earthly things, the might of civilization without its mercy, is brought to bear upon them, to succour and befriend in a temporal sense those who are the objects of their spiritual compassion, and who - as against our countrymen in the East, restrained by no public Opinion, insolent from a sense of the terrible power at their back, abetted by powerful commercial interests and an utterly unscrupulous press at home may be'justly described as those that have no helpers, unless you help them? And yet so far is it otherwise, that when any difference arises between our officials and theirs, your agents and organs too often ?ing them selves into violent hostility to the latter, exaggerate their errors, suppress their provocations, brand them as barbarians, and incite the government to in?ict bloody and summary vengeance upon them, while observing profound silence as to the infinite wrongs they suffer from us, and which abundantly account for their repugnance to admit a closer acquaintance with Europeans. In the passage I have quoted above, where we are told in so lordly a tone that England will have no more of it, does the speaker mean that England will have no more of fraudulent traffic on the part of her own merchants, no more poisoning the Chinese with Opium in order to replenish the Indian exchequer, no more selling of British ?ags for the protection of pirates, no more extending the privileges of treaty stipulations to vile and reckless men who are infesting the coasts of China, and perpetrating the worst crimes with impunity? Are these the things of which England will have no more? Not at all.
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