Great Britain: "...her cruel oppression of her East India subjects,
often starving... and forced to cultivate opium on land they need to
supply themselves with bread... [A]nd... China... for resisting a
traffick which was sapping, by its terrible effects upon her citizens,
the very foundation of her empire..."
SOURCE:
Ludlow, Henry G. "Our Happy Form of Government: A Thanksgiving Sermon,
preached in the Church Street Church, New Haven, Nov. 19, 1840 by the
pastor, H.G. Ludlow" New Haven: B.L. Bamlen 1840, p. 18.
See also:
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