MHr. President. this is strange reasoning. tllo application of these principles can have no kind of application here. The circunmstances under which we have so often asserted the fundamiental right of every man to sever his relation with his native country does not and cannot apply to the relation the Chinese immigrant seeks to maintain in this country. We have asserted the right of expatriation in behalf of our adopted citizens when and wherever the governments from whence they came sought to enforce upon them obligations supposed and claimed to exist by reason of their having teed born within their jurisdiction. We asserted the priuci1do because we had taken upon ourselves the obligation of giving them protection for ticir sllegiencecorrelative obligations assumed when we received them into our political comunity.
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