Speech #470040425

Here are treaties which they never asked us to make. but which we asked them to makebegged and implored them to make. They mever wanted Chinamen to come to this country. They never desired that the Chinese should emigrate. They never sought treaty relations with us. but we sought treaty relations with th6m. We sought them against a prejudice which at one time we thought we should never be able to overcome. because it had existed among that people for centuries. extending back across the ages to the time of Confucius. and far beyond the time of Confucius the august empire extends until its origin is lost in the twilight of fable.