Mr. President. that was nearly two thousand years ago. and that example has stood here upon Sacred Writ for the encouragement and protection of men who enjoy the citizenship of great countries which are willing to protect their citizens wherever they may be found. and we find. while that sacred principle is connected with the highest development that is possible of human character. perhaps the most distinguished and the noblest Christian that lived in the world was made the subject of this sort of persecution. he claimed not the power of angels to release him. as he could have done. but he appealed to his Roman citizenship. and the very judges and persecutors who had cast him into prison came and opened the door and begged him to depart. Sir. we had an example of that kind secured to us in the Constitution of the United States and in the glorious and priceless name of American liberty. but Senators on this floor turn their backs upon it and spurn it. and ridicule the man who claims the title of American citizen. and call him a fraud. because they suspect in their evil imagination that there is possibly some lapse in the proceeding by which he was naturalized. They stand here to claim that he is not an American citizen. Why and for what?
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