An Essay on the Opium Trade: Including a Sketch of Its History, Extent, Effects, Etc., as Carried on in India and ChinaJ. P. Jewett & Company, 1850 - 68 Seiten |
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Amoy Assam average balls become Bengal boiled Bombay British government Calcutta Canton Canton River Capt carried chests of Opium Chinese government Chinese Repository Christian Church Missionary Society cities coast of China commercial consumed contraband cultivation dealers destroyed drug duty East India Company edicts effects Emperor engaged England English government estimated evil extent flowing poison foreign habit harbor Hong Kong hundred blows important increase INDIA AND CHINA intercourse island juice labor land laws legalize Lintin loss Macao Malwa manufacture ment merchants Missionary moral nation native officers Opium shops Opium smoking Opium trade Opium traffic Opium war paid Parliament pipe Poppy port present principal produced prohibited provinces quantity receiving receiving ships remarks resided revenue ruin Rupees ryot sale of Opium sell ships silver smoking Opium smugglers smuggling sold specie thousand tion transportation vessels vice violation Whampoa whole Winslow Lewis Woosung
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Seite 27 - In the houses devoted to their ruin, these infatuated people may be seen at nine o'clock in the evening in all the different stages. Some entering half distracted to feed the craving appetite they had been obliged to subdue during the day ; others laughing and talking wildly under the effects of a first pipe ; whilst the couches around are filled with their different occupants.
Seite 39 - In the present state of the revenue of India it does not appear advisable to abandon so important a source of revenue, — a duty upon opium being a tax which falls principally upon the foreign consumer, and which appears upon the whole less liable to objection than any other that could he substituted.
Seite 46 - I cannot prevent the introduction of the flowing poison; gainseeking and corrupt men will, for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes ; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people" One result of the war was the ceding of the island of Hong Kong to the English.
Seite 33 - Now the English are of the race of foreigners called Hung-maou. In introducing opium into this country, their purpose has been to weaken and enfeeble the central empire. If not early aroused to a sense of our danger, we shall find ourselves, ere long, on the last step towards ruin.
Seite 5 - He then makes the ryot enter into an engagement with him to deliver the quantity thus estimated, and as much more as the field will yield, at the price previously fixed ; if he fails to deliver the estimated quantity, and the collector has reason to suppose he has embezzled the deficiency, he is empowered by law to prosecute the ryot in the civil court for damages. The product in India, for the last year, it is said, amounts to about 35,000 chests.
Seite 58 - Why do Christians bring us opium, and bring it directly in defiance of our own laws? That vile drug has poisoned my son — has ruined my brother — and well nigh led me to beggar my wife and children. Surely, those who import such a deleterious substance, and injure me, for the sake of gain, cannot wish me well or be in possession of a religion that is better than my own. Go first and persuade your own countrymen to relinquish this nefarious traffic, and give me a prescription to correct this vile...
Seite 27 - The drug is prepared with some kind of conserve, and a very small portion is sufficient to charge it, one or two whiffs being the utmost that can be inhaled from a single pipe, and the smoke is taken into the lungs as from the hookah in India. On a beginner, one or two pipes will have an effect, but an old stager will continue smoking for hours.
Seite 35 - ... presented a memorial, requesting that the sale of the drug should be prohibited, and that offenders should be made amenable to punishment.
Seite 27 - ... too much under the influence of the drug to care for passing events, and fast merging to the wished-for consummation. The last scene in this tragic play is generally a room in the rear of the building, a species of dead-house, where lie stretched those who have passed into the state of bliss the opium-smoker madly seeks— an emblem of the long sleep to which he is blindly hurrying.—Davis, vol.
Seite 54 - ... capital ; while in proportion, it increases the expenditure, and thus in both ways is constantly exhausting the means of future reproduction. And this is its tendency, in all its bearings, in proportion to the quantity used, from the man who takes only his glass, to the man who takes his quart a day. It is a palpable and gross violation of all correct principles of political economy ; and from beginning to end, tends to diminish all the sources of national wealth. " Oh," said a merchant in a...