No time was to be lost. The instructions to the ministem were urgent. And they did involve the one point that at any hazard the ri ht to suspend immigration. the right to stop it. should be concede. Now. my friend froim Massachusetts will observe that when the Chinaman in this negotiation concedes the right to suspend. he stipulates for his remedy. He knew very well that when he submitted this question to the discretion of the United States he could not arrest our action. he had given away the case. he had left the United States to judge what was reasonable. But he stipulatedand it is to that I call your attentionhe stipulated that if we (lid exercise this power unreasonably then there could be a remedy. and as between nations it is the only remedy you can have. The stipulation is that if we exercise this power in a way that China. thinks unreasonable. then the Emperor of China shall have the right to negotiate with the United States that his representatives shall coie in the usual diilomatic way and assert that what we have done is unreasonable and is a subject of negotiation. and we in our turn can show what were the exigencies. general or local. which induced us to suspend immigration for a greater or a shorter time. and to justify the reasonableness of our action. This is the real gist ofthe question. Now.
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