Speaker. I care not how it may be characterized. I know in the great court of the people themselves it will be held as honest and a step in the right direction. and in offering it I simply propose a greater Americanism. a truer Americanism. not that bastard kind which lit its way by the convent fires of the days of knownothingism. not that proscriptive kind which seeks to drive immigration from the country. but a better. more enlightened. patriotic kind. which will welcome all who choose to come and are fit to come. but which simply asks them when they do come to become one of our household. bone of our bone. flesh of our flesh. our friends. our brothers. our very fellowcitizens. That is what I desire. that is all I ask.
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