Madison. a statesman for all time. never dre~hmed how flippantly the Constitution. made by him and signed by Washington. might be blasphemed or botched and perverted. Rich in her countrys historic fame as the Old Dominion may be. she can ill afford. for bheap pinchbeck bijoutry. to impeach and discard her ancient and priceless jewels. "that on the outstretched forefinger of all time" were placed to "sparkle forever." Our country often ppears to have been afflicted with too much of prosperity. or of having an excess of what. heretofore. have been regarded as the best evidences of prosperity. The growth of the United States in populationhaa been phenomenal. but for e some years the increase on the gallop of European immigrants has been so largely of an undesirable and incongruous character as to wholly confound its claims as a blessing. and the motley influx now adds little to our grandeur or pride. whether figurng in rotund statistics or in the shame of bloated municipalities. If we have not shut out Chinamen by law. Jfapan appears willing to make them all stay at home. and we can i ow gve some attention to other hoodlums whose ways re also "dark and peculiar." The tariff was claimed by those in power to have been excessive on foreign trade and productive of too much revenue. but the protracted agony and Cfsarian delivery of the tariffreform bantling. and the progressive Treasury deficiency thus provoked. far transcends the sentimental agony of a surplus. which long ago ceased to vex any financiers.
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European immigrants are described as 'undesirable and incongruous' and adding little to the country's grandeur.