In this matchless and exalted purpose many of the good people of the world contend that God blessed us by sending the most intelligent and courageous representatives of many of the different races of humanity here to this New World. The commingling of the blood of these various representatives of the different families of the world produced the American type of manhood. into whose hands the herculean task of giving life and form and permanent existence to this ideal Government has fortunately fallen. Now. to go to Asia. and take into this new Governments maw 10.000.000 savages. it seems to me. is in a large measure an abandonment of the lofty purposes of the fathers to maintain a separate and independent existence from all Asiatic and European association. [Loud applause.] . Republican statesmen have pointed out. and wisely so. an evil first seen by the old Whig party. that foreign emigration to this country should be checked. The best thought of our party on this floor. notably the intellectuality of the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania. Governor Stone. was here vigorously employed in pointing out the disastrous results of unrestricted emigration to this country. Moreover. our party platform contains a declaration to that effect. Yet only 500.000 come here annually as the result of the natural attractive forces of our Republic and the expellent forces of the Old World.
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