They have had the opportunity of enjoying the blessings. if any there be. arising from Chineselabor and Chinese association. and they have been compelled to submit to and endure the inconvenience and wrong occasioned by this labor and this association. They have watched and observed the disposition and capacity of the Chinese for progress and advancement and their capability for assimilation with and incorporation into our own people. And their verdict is on all these points agaiist these immigrants. Certainly. sir. the experience and observation of the people of the Pacific States. and their judgment founded on these (ata are entitled to the greatest weight and influence on onr deliberations. They ought to determine our action. unless we propose to discard the lessons of experience lbir the speculations of seutimentalists or the theories ofa humanitarianism which considers rather what the world ought to be than what it is or can be.
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