Mr. Chairman. the compliment paid by the gentleman from Iowa to that ballotboxstuffing and shotgun brigade has no equal in its sentiment of devotion. In history or fiction there has never been but one instance which approached it. and that was when Dame Quickly was narrating to Pistol and Bardolph the circumstances of the death of Sir John Falstaff . when Bardolph. in the enthusiasm of his roguish soul. cried out. "Would I were with him. wheresomeer he is. whether in heaven or in hell." Speaking for myself only. while I return my profoundest acknowledgments to the gentleman from Iowa for the offer of his society if I should be so unfortunate as to take the wrong road and join him down below . and while I do not doubt that he will not be much worse than the average of the naturalized citizens of that country so populous with involuntary immigrants. yet I here and now enter my solemn and vigorous protest against accepting his delicate companionship . for I am persuaded. notwithstanding his peculiar delicacy in approaching a subject and his tendency to fraternal feeling. that no engagement. however pressing it might be upon those who would be going through the very rapid evolutions supposed to be incident to that torrid clime. could prevent the gentleman from arresting the column and mounting upon a redhot stump and insisting that we should listen to him declaiming that stale piece of political lore. That would be a punishment greater than I could bear. I would be in favor of inaugurating another rebellion . even with the certain foreknowledge that the gentleman in ten minutes would be found fighting first for the devil and then for me.
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Generalization about naturalized citizens being no better than the 'average' of those in hell.