Julius Caesar. a race that gave us the Renaissance when humanity seemed to have fallen into utter wreck and ruin. that gave us a Michael Angelo. a Raphael. and a Dante. I wish to say. in passing. that the Celtic race. although it needs no eulogy from me -or any other source. has. in the first or second generation. given five Presidents to the United States. and seems now upon the point of giving us another. Following in the track of the Italic or Romanic wave of emigration. came the Grecian or Hellenic wave. which gave usand let me say to the gentlemen who object to immigration from the southern shores of Europe that those people and their kindred who colonized southern Italy and Sicily belonged to the Hellenic racegave. I say. to art the sculptures of Phidias. to government the statesmanship of Pericles. to pure reason the philosophy of Socrates. and transmitted to us in the best sense the noblest elements of modern civilization. From the standpoint of popular development we owe an equal obligation to the Germanic race. which formed the fourth wave of emigration in the great western march of the Aryan family. From the early village communities of that race we draw. from the principles of their town councils. those democratic ideas which are the historic foundation of this very House now deliberating on this question. We are indebted to the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr.
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