Butthe thing is to be done according to the Constitution which the American people have erected. and according to the laws which they make for themselves. and according to the judgment of the majority of their commissioned servants here and in the other House. and in the local Legislatures of fortyfour or fifty free and sovereign States. Mr. President. another thing the honorable Senator said. He says that the destitution in Massachusetts among the workingmen. the number of people who do not own their houses. and the number of people who live in crowded and unwholesome tenements are increasing. I absolutely deny that proposition. except with the limitation I shall state. Massaclusetts is one of the great gates of immigration into this country. There are two. Castle Garden and Boston Harbor. and the latchstring is out.
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