It starts by the abrogation at the mere will of one party of a solemn treaty. It starts by relieving the Emperor of China of obligationsupon which depend the rights and the property and the business of large numbers of our own fellowcitizens who are as much entitled to the protection of the Government in their business as any other class of our followcitizens. and it does all these things without the slightest necessity. It does all these things because the people of California tell us that in some remote future a population which in thirty years has left with its immigration. according to their own account. but a hundred thousand excess of the Immigrants who have stayed above those of the emigrants who have returned. will some time in distant ages swamp their civilization. Mr. President. the argument which I addressed to the Senate was not that the cooly trade ought not be broken up. not that labor contracts were not immoral. but that this bill was in violation of the true principles of government.
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The speaker refers to the fear that Chinese immigrants will 'swamp their civilization'.