But let me read from the language of an eminent jurist. Justice Brewer. of that court. used by him on the same day. May 15 last. with regard to this law. which he styled "this greater wrong by which a hundred thousand people are subject to arrest and forcible deportation from the country." He closed his able opinion with these stinging words concerning the Geary law: In view of this enactment of the highest legislative body of the foremost Christian nationGentlemen may postpone their blushes of modesty until I read the next line and then they may blush for another reasonmay not the faithful Chinese disciple of Confucius fairly ask. "Why do they send mlssionaries here?" And Chief Justice Fuller says: It containswithin it the germs of the assertion of an unlimited and arbitrary power in general. incompatible with the immutable principles of justice. inconsistent with the nature of our Government. Those are not my words. They are the solemn and carefully weighed declarations of the great jurists who compose the highest tribunal in the world.
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