If. after taking out his papers here. he had gone to Scotland. and when he got there the Queen had called him as her own. James B. White could have stood up in the thee of the British Government and said. "I am an American citizen. here is my certificate of naturalization.II "Oh!" but the gentleman from Mississippi and the gentleman from Virginia say. "mless you can show the record of the court in which you were naturalized you are not entitled to the protection of the flag you fought to perpetuate. II Then James B. White would open his coat and exhibit the scar upon his manly bosom anJ say. " Gentlemen. here is my certificate. here are the wounds I received fighting for the perpetuity of a republican form of government in the United States. " "Oh !" but say the majority of the cqmmittee again. "that all goes for naught. that amounts to nothing. you must show the record." But I ask you. sir. what would the American Congress have said in the face of these facts? It would have declared war if necessary against Great Britain and demanded the release of this man as an American citizen. If we are to establish this rule. that every foreigner who lands upon our shores is compelled to stand over the county clerk and see that he makes a proper record of his naturalization. and does his duty before he can safely claim that he has been naturalized. I would not give much for the rights you confer upon him as an American citizen. Is the life of a man to go for naught on this kind of evidence and on such a ruling?
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Generalization about what every foreigner must do to be naturalized.