American doctrine is different. The American doctrine affirms. as That is the way I read the Constitution of the United States and I the Declaration of Independence affirms and as the New Testament cannot fail to believe that my friend from Massachusetts would read affirms as I read it--two authorities which lie at the very foundation it in the same way. It was left to their judgmentto determine. and of all law. domestic. international. individual. which governs manat the outset they determined that no Chinaman or other man. al- kindthat the right is equal. that the human being has the right though they then confined it to white men. that no man (leaving out conforming to law. conforming to the proper regulations of the place this question of color. which has nothing to do with what I have to to which he goes. to go and seek his fortune and to earn his living by say) could become one of the people of the United States until he honest labor. complied with certain conditions and was subjected to certain tests The Senator seems to me. when be alludes to the right of Congress that the judicial tribunals of the country should impartially apply. to pass laws providing for naturalization. to confound two very disOne of those tests was his five years residence. Another test was tinct things. We may undoubtedly regulate the conditions upon that he should take an oath. if one could be found binding upon his which the citizens of a foreign country shall be admitted to citizenconscience. that he renounced all allegiance to every other power. ship here. we may undoubtedly establish rules or fix a period of That recognized that there were other powers that he must get rid time which will make it certain that that citizen of a foreign country of.
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