I would wish to see you put such statutes as this upon the statute books. With all your boasted majority. you would see where that majority would go at the next election. but even for the sake of hoping to see Republicans defeated I could not wish such a calamity to my country. It was in 1856 that the other great howl was raised by the Knownothings and by parties opposed to immigration. Suppose we should banish from our shores the immigrants who have come in since then and their children. What would be the result? Instead of being the great and powerful civilized nation that we are we should be a mere stranded hulk on the outskirts of respectability. How much would be taken from our vaunted wealth? Why. in a little more than a hundred years our wealth has grown from five billions to over $94.000.000.000. and during all that time the immigration to our shores has been steady and continuous. year in and year out. Some of the greatest men we have ever had have come here under the privileges accorded to immigrants. James Beck. one of the greatest Senators who ever adorned the other end of the Capitol. was an immigrant. and when he came to Kentucky he was uneducated. Lafayette came over here to help us fight our battles. Judah P.
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