Everyone can understand how difficult. how qlmost impossible it is to make out such a long and costly line of proof. especially to a laboring man. This he must prove affirmatively or he can not get a certificate. If he is not granted a certificate. and we can readily see how officers on the Pacific coast would be glad to refuse it. he is arrested. imrisoned six months or less. and then expelled from the country. he obtains it he must carry it around with him or be liable instantly and always to arrest. imprisonment. and deportation like a convict. It is proposed to have 100.000. or. some gentlemen assert. 200.000. men in our country ticketed. tagged. almost brandedthe old slavery days returned. Never before in a free country was there such a system of tagging a man. like a dog to be caught by the police and examined. and if his tag or collar is not all right taken to the poundor drowned or shot. Never before was it applied by a free people to a human being. with the exception (which we can never refer to with pride) of the sad days of slavery and the ticket of leave given to convicts allowed to go out awhile from the penitentiary. and the deported convicts at Botany Bay. who had to have a ticket of leave. But here are more than 100.000 men. innocent of offense. who must obtain this certificate. this ticket of leave. and carry it around with them in a free country! Is that the treatment due to a great body of men to whom we have solemnly promised. in the treaty pledge of our national -faith. that they shall have all the rights. immunities. and privileges of citizens and subjects of the most favored nation?
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