To found a bill on any one of these should be sufficient to defeat it. yet this bill embraces them all. Parties have been formed on each of these issues. and each in its turn has gone to dissolution and decay. Mr. Speaker. the earlier days of my boyhood were spent near the line of the Erie Canal in the grand old State of New York. and among my earliest recollections were the first emigrants of those days taking steerage passage on the slowmoving canalboats. They Ncre from the humblest. the poorest. and most ignorant class of the Old World. They were filthy. some were vermineaten. and all were repulsive in personal appearance.
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Early immigrants were filthy, vermin-eaten, and repulsive.