It is the doctrine we have crystallized into treaties and statutes. that every man who sees fit to flee from the land of his birth has a right so to do. and can transfer his allegiance. with the consent only and always of the country to which he flies. what should be his condition when he got there being determined always by the law of the land where he went and not by the law of the land from which he came. It was that which enabled us to say. to the European countries when our citizens went back to Europe. to Germany. to France. and to Great Britain. "These men have by a natural right severed their connection with you and transferred their allegiance to us." There are nine and a half million of men in the United States who have come here within twenty years asserting that right. and we have asserted it. and we have been ready to go to war at all times in defense of it. Yet sneeringly the Senator from Mississippi tells us that this was opening the door to Chinese immigration. Mr. President. thit was all there was of the treaty of 1868.
Keywords matched
immigration