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potestas_ exist in Hong Kong, including of course adoption. It is
    to this conviction that I point as the moral ground for enforcing
    English law against kidnaping and buying and selling human beings.
    The gravamen of all my complaints is, that the pauper kidnapers
    and sellers are punished, while the rich buyers go free. No case
    can come on for trial in this Court except upon an information by
    the Attorney-General. I have called on the Attorney-General of the
    day to prosecute a man against whom there was evidence that the
    boy he was keeping as a servant had been bought by him direct from
    a kidnaper. The then Attorney-General exercised his discretion,
    and did not prosecute." "There are no difficulties in the way of
    carrying out the punishment of kidnaping, and sellers and buyers
    of children, or of keeping children by the purchasers, or in
    selling and buying of women for brothels, or in dealing with
    cases of brutal bondage." "I have spoken from criminal facts and
    circumstances deposed to in Court; the Chinese and Dr. Eitel have
    spoken from the favorable surroundings of respectable domestic
    life in China. The conflicting views thus presented are but a
    reproduction of conflicting testimony in reference to negro
    slavery in the West Indies, and more lately in the United States.
    Very benevolent persons, some my own friends, looking at facts
    from the respectable standpoint, thought that such slavery was
    based on human nature, and conduced to the spread of Christianity.
    But the cont