No great deliberative body like this can legislate properly and promulgate wholesome laws if it undertakes to pander to any section of the country or to any class of the people in any section. I suppose everybody on the face of the earth will agree with me in that declaration. We must treat everybody and every section alike if we wish the law to be respected. But I want to examine a little further into this question of immigration while I am upon it. When did the gentleman from Pennsylvania become so thoroughly aroused to the dangers of immigration? We have grown from 3.000.000 to 70.000.000 of united and happy freemen. Our territory has extended from 13 sparsely settled British colonies to 45 free. independent. and happy States.
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