Instead of seeking his impoverishment and degradation. the law was ever supposed to be on his side. kindly in sympathy with his necessities. and disposed to stimulate rather than retard his efforts in llettering his condition. The good report of our Government in this particular has gone throughout the world. The thousands of emigrants who have built up the West and who are an important factor in the future of our country have been attracted here by our supposed equal laws. unhedged paths of industry. our respect for labor. and the absence of all class distinctions. I repeat this has been the theoryof our Government. and whenever the people become convinced of a departure or a proposed departure from this principle of "equal and exact justice to all men." they will resist it by all the means at their command. The people are not yet prepared to surrender their rights into the handsof the few.
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