Thirteen years he had spent in this country. his residence here antedating the adoption of the Constitution. but under a memorial presented to the Senate of the United States. those Senators. standing at the very birth of the Government its sponsors. said to Mr. Gallatin. "You have not been a citizen of this Republic for nine years." That is about as strong a case (to claim no more for it) as Mr. Whites. I allude to it for this purposethat we may begin at the right point. Ours is the only Government that ever naturalized foreigners sqve by some supreme act of parliament. We proposed to make the acquirement of citizenship easy. Until recently the law provided that the alien seeking citizenship should go into a court of record and file his declaration.
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