I propose to bring up the immigration bill. Immigration is coming in with unexampled force and numbers. at the rate of a thousand a day and more. and if the famine keeps on in Ireland. as it will. typhus will follow. and follow with immigration. as in 1847. into all parts of our own country. The hospitals at Harts Island and the protective guards and aids at Castle Garden will be broken up. unless some action of Congress be taken. The decision of the Supreme Court demands Federal action. Unless it be had we will be at the mercy of all diseases coming from abroad. which follow famine. without protection at the gateway of our immigration and commerce.
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Immigrants are associated with disease and famine.