Even then he would be flogged and birched for his ignorance in reciting his lesson in history. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts never undertook by statute. by constitutional amendment. nor by ordinance to declare that men of the Catholic faith or men of foreign birth should not hold office. The only thing she did. which she changed. in a year or two after it was done. on her own motion and voluntarily. was to provide that there can be an interval between naturalization and the right to vote. She had suffered as New York had suffered in the time of Tweed. by the fraudulent naturalization processes. and she thought that the cure of that evil was to interpose a period between the time of naturalization and the time of admission to suffrage. The Senator says he supposes that if I had been old enough I should have approved that policy. I will take the liberty of informing that Senator that I was old enough. that I had been engaged in the public service of Massachusetts several years before that policy was adopted. that I resisted it even then. mild as it was. with all my might. and stood in a small minority for a year or two until the returning sense of the people came around to my way of thinking.
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