I read it with great pleasure and great attention.) declares that this country is to become the great missionary station of the world. that the Declaration of Independence meant that our institutions were made not for Americans and for their descendants. but for the whole world to come here and take possession of this continent. bought with our blood and our treasure and that of our fathers. I deny the doctrine. usthetical as it may be and much as it appeals to the feeling of missionary Christianity among our people. Sir. this is a question of practical statesmanship. lam first for my own people against the world. I am first for the American system. which protects the labor and the interests of the American people before all others. What is this Chinese immigration? Are they citizens of the United States? Do they come here to meet the reciprocal obligation between our people and the Government to which they owe allegiance ?
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