My friend from Maine says that the Senator from Louisiana must not confuse this question. I fear that the Senator from Louisiana is not the only person in this country who will fall into the same imabiUty to distinguish between his line of argument and that of my friend from Maine. It is something beside the question of free labor. it is the question of the right of manhood to live and breathe. and walk the surface of the earth. be he a negro or be hea Mongolian. If he has not an ability to participate in the functions of our Government. it is not his fault. We can provide for his naturalization. if we have not already done so. in an hour. and it is no justification of the treatment that he is receiving every day to say that we have also failed to give him those political rights which we have given to others. Sir. the government of this country is not a goverument of makeshifts. a government that applies its doctrines in one part of the nation and disregards and tramples them down in another. Its glory and its boast is. and the demand of those who believe in it should be. that it is of universal application. that it applies to man and manhood. that under its provisions and under its institutions man. of whatever clime or whatever color. can work out for himself. if left alqne. that manhood upon which its principles are based.
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