I coufess to an utter incapacity to see how we. on I his side of the House. can reconcile a vote for.this dangerous bill with any principle of Repnlliea consistency. Most of the arguments urged in favor of this bill by gentlemen who seem anxious for its passage impress me as being puerile. fhiisy. and unworthy of serious consideration. My distinguished friend from Indiana says that some of the immigrants coinitg to this country from China bring loathsome diseases with then. and hae sented to lay great stress upon this as a plowerfil argument in favor of the passage of this bill. Assumting that some of them do bring with them foul physical infirmities. is this a good reason why a great government like ours should. by the most rigorous laws. single out by.nai and bring under the ban of exclusion a wholenation of people? Do not many. very many. European inmigrants come among us suffering from loathsome diseases? Is a physical disease more dangerous to the stability of our institutions when it exists among its in the person of an Asiatic rather than a European immigrant ? Another apparently favorite argument of the honorable gentleman was that of all the eighty thousand population now on the Pacific slope they have not a dozen wives among them. I would gladly give my distinguished friend the benefit of this convincing arguenint if he had not already only a few minutes before himself neutralized its efficacy by voting for the exclusion of some of our own nativeborn American white citizensMormonssolely because they were too much married.
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