What. is the great harm in it? The real purpose is simply that the American Government may have a means of distinguishing whom .they are to protect as their citizens abroad. And I will say that while we welcome all new citizens to onr shores. while we protect native and naturalized citizens abroad. we do not want to have any of that class of people who. as Sheridan says in one of his plays. speaking of Little Moses. have renounced Judaism withont embracing Christianity. and are like the blank leaves between the Old and the Now Testaments. We do not want the class of citizens that hav reionnceed all their American relationships and duties. who have cast in their lot with foreign go.vernments. who take their property and pass their lives there. and consider it a great hardship even to tell oar couisuls civilly that they wish to retain their citizenship. If this is a hardship to anybody I do not so understand it.
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The speaker expresses a desire to exclude citizens who have renounced their American relationships and duties.