The laboring man has gained in larger proportions than anywhere else his share of this abundant harvest of wealth and happiness. of education and of family delight. Still the demand for labor keeps more than abreast of the general growth of the country. and from all climes under the sumi. from sunny Italy. from beautiful Spain. from Lisbon. that jewel of the earth. from England. from Ireland. from the Scandinavian nations of the north. from Germany. and from distant Russia the laborers are thronging. the steps all one way. in their eager desire to share this harvest of national pros.crity and of national glory. Yet. in the Senate of the United States a proposition is made that by the forces of the nation. aided by its Treasury. promoted and stimulated by all the strength of its legislative power. millions of our laborers. horn upon our soil. every one of them entitled under our Constitution to every right which the proudest or the most fortunate possesses. are to be deported to what the honorable Senator has justly styled the "dark region of the Dark Continent." to that black and dismal cavern which the foot of the white man has scarcely penetrated from the foundation of the earth. and which. in spite of the recent exploration of our illustrious fellowcitizen. is less known to the writer of history today than it was when the Father of History attempted his description of it three hundred years before the birth of Christ. The proposition of the Senator from South Carolina is that we are to begin this process by taking the best educated. the most intelligent. industrious. and moral of that class of our laborers. leaving behind. for the time being atany rate. the ignorant. the immoral. the paupers. and those who. as he says. in some regions are going backwards in the scale of civilization.
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