President. the fault which Macaulay has pointed out in his essay is the fault which I have to find with my friends in the opposition. They seem to think that it is the great mission of an American statesman in this place to go around and find out the foibles and the faults of his neighbors. to advertise them. to magnify them. to hold them up to scorn and reprobation. and to say to the world. "Look at me. and look at my brother. How pure and lovely am I. and what a horrid kind of a creature is he." Indeed. even from so fairminded a person as the Senator from Massachusettswho is fairminded. unless you touch him where the Republican party comes inwe have heard no invectives against those who indulge in naturalization frauds in the city of Boston right where he could see and hear them. We have none of the records of the Boston courts brought here. althbugh the archives of the Senate are very handy. and I could bring them here. Indeed. at one time in a previous debate I caused extracts to be made from them thrit I might bring them here. but I do not care to be raking over the ashes in Massachusetts to see if I can pick out something of irregularity. which may mortify its people.
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