I ask her Senators what effect it would have upon the laboring population of the great State to send into it 400.000 ablebodiedlaborig Chinese to depress the labor market in the straggle and comnpetition that would ensue. The State of New York hasa population of over 5.000.000. let the Senators of that State reflect what would be the effect of letting in 500.000 Chinese laborers to compete with their laboring population. If Senators will but reflect upon these facts they can readily comprehend how it istbatthere is such a wonderful unanimity in sentiment in every locality where the blight of this immigration has been felt . they will no longer be surprised at the steady and growing opposition to that class of immigrants. an opposition so universal that in a secret vote by concealed ballots no more tlian 800 votes were given favoring this immigration to 150.000 against it. Mr. President. the honorable Senator from Massachusetts asked "What argument cau be urged against the Chinese which was not heard against the negro with in living memories ?" I do not suppose that I can satisfy the honorable Senatorof the fallacy of his reasoning. but I may call attention to the utter want of any parallelisji between the relations of the negro to the people of the United States and that of the Chinese. who deshe to come among us as imigrants.
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