What consistency. too. is there in a great State calling a constitutional convention to amend its organic law in order that it may make an educational qualification a prerequisite to the tight to vote? With what consistency do they tolerate fraud at the ballot box against the ignorant black man in that same State. justifying themselves by the plea that intelligence should control in their State and municipal affairs. and at the same time extend through their representatives on this floor a welcome to the whole Union to men from abroad so ignorant that they not only can not read twenty lines of the Constitution. but can not even comprehend the simplest duties of citizenship in a free republic? Is our restriction upon immigration to stop with the exclusion of the Chinese. who can both read and write? Are all other nationalities who lack this accomplishment to be admitted free? Is the right of selfprotection one which inheres only in the individual?
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing that some immigrants are so ignorant they cannot comprehend the duties of citizenship.