It was a proposition which is in spirit with all our doctrines upon the subject of imutigration. It was a liropsositioii which I am willing to stand by here aid now and at all tims. that whether it he with China or whether it be wvith France or Russia or Ocrmany or England. I am ready to treat for the exclusion of coolies. of tervie laborers. of prostitutes. of criminals. and of diseased persons. If we would keep our bodypolitic pure. if we would keep our people virtuous. if we would make all immigration here tend to the better glory and perpetuity of the Republic. that is the way in which to do it. That is good. firm. substantial ground upon which we can all stand. But the American commissioners said that that would not be satisfactory to them. and that we had got a new Secretary of State now. a new minister. as they called him. and Mr.
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