There is no excuse for it. When the other bill came up two years ago many gentlemen who now sit around me voted ibr it. though with reluctance. remembering with something of tender regret all the grand declarations they had been in the habit of making on the Fourth of July about our broad and hospitable country to whose shores every man and woman in the world. whatever their religion. their language. or their belietf were welcome. It was contrary to the democratic spirit in a country peopled by immigrants. contrary to the genius of our institutions. to proscribe immigration. But the pressure from California was great. all sympathized with their fears. and the yielding disposition of those from sister States made them so far waive all there was in these cherished traditions that they voted for that bill. It became alaw.
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