We are told that the privilege was given to Indians to become citizens by severing their lands sixty years ago. and how many in the length and breadth of this great country since 1825 to the present time have ever availed themselves of that privilege? In the five civilized tribes. the most enlightened of all the Indians. not one has ever availed himself of this privilege. but you pass them all by. you pass by the Indians bestqualified to become citizens. specially exceptthem out of the operation of this bill. and make the Indian who but afewyearsago with the scalpingknifi and the tomahawk was attacking the people on the frontier. by the simple act of taking a piece of land in severalty a citizen of the United States. without any knowledge of our laws. and you say that is the rule. If that is the rule. amend the naturalization laws as to the wild. savage negro that the Senator spoke of who was brought from Africa to this land. Can he become a citizen of the United States under the statutes as they now exist today ? Look at your Chinamen. are they not specially excepted from the naturalization laws ? The policy of the United States Government when they liberated the slaves was first to make them citizens. and in order to protect that citizenship to give them the right of voting and holding office. That was it. and why ?
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing about the savagery of certain groups.