President. that I have laid before the Senate enough of opinion expressed in the solemn deliberations of this body. which of course we know are always very solemn. to get at the difference between Democratic sentiment on the Chinese question and the Republican sentiment as it has been revealed in these debates. and also outside of them as to the treatymaking arrangements. And. sir. the pretension will not do to set up any longer in the Senate. for the world will see through it and scout it. that the Republican party has any responsibility for the Chinese question on the American continent. except to bring it into this country. Since it got here they have done very little. almost nothing. with a few bright exceptions. under local pressure. possibly. to get rid of it. but we have had to fight a battle of the greatest magnitude. scarcely aided by any Republican. certainly opposed by a number of their statesmen. whose abilities have been very marked. and whose persistence has absolutely been insuperable in opposition to the restriction of Chinese immigration. I. sir. have always believed that it was a very serious evil to this country. It was my misfortune to have been raised up among the negroes whose ancestors were imported by gentlemen of New England. and distributed along the Atlantic coast.
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