This amendment would deny them the right for five yeamrs at least to even purchase a home to shelter themselves or their families. or the right to initiate proceedings to acquire title to that part of the public domain on which we invite them to settle. I think such a proposition. while it may. as said by the gentleman from Alabama . correspond to the precedents of European countries. is not American. lam opposed. sir. utterly opposed. to such a proposition. The Western part of our country at the present time. and the same was true of the Eastern part of the country when it was newer. has a large percentage of its population who are foreign born and of many different nationalities. and no more peaceable. no more industrious. no better citizens are fbund among us. It would be to them an indignity and a wrong to show such distrust of their patriotism or intelligence as is implied by this amendment. Mr.
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