I think he illustrated a statement I have somewhere seen of fleeing when no man pursueth. and of an uneasy conscience needing no accuser. But there is a passage in the veto message to which I think exception may be fairly taken. and -whish I intend to read to the Senate. The President in his veto -message. in discussing this question of reasonable suspension of Chinese immigration. says: T regard this provision of the act as a breach of our national faith. and being anable to bring myself in harmony with the views of Congress on this vital point. the honor of the country constrains me to return the act withethis objection to its passage.. The honor of the country! Here are two hundred and fifty out of three hundred members of Congress who have declared upon their oaths and with as high sense of what the honor of the country requires as the President can possibly have that this act is proper and right.
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