This being the fact. the question must occur upon the addition of any new peoples to our Government. do the individuals among these peoples possess the proper and necessary attributes and qualifications of individual sovereignty? If they do. then they can be annexed with safety. other things being of such nature as to render it politic. but if they do not. then the annexation of such peoples. they becoming sovereigns with us by such annexation. must weaken our whole Government to the extent that they are weak. So well was this understood by the framers of our Constitution that they inserted a clause in that instrument providing for a restriction upon the influx of foreign immigration. to stop the addition of new peoples to our population. and it is a matter of fact that we have been compelled to legislate for the shutting out of dangerous elements from other nations. and have passed the Chineseexclusion and the alienlabor acts. In our development as a nation the greatest strides have been taken during the past generation. When the fearful gale and tremendous surge of the storm of civil strife in our land was ended and the rainbow of peace bedecked the political sky. when our united country was freed from the blighting curse of negro slavery. then the genius of liberty found full expression. progress. commercial enterprise. inventive thought. and intellectual activity leaped ahead as never had entered the wildest dream of the most enthusiastic prophet.
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Shutting out dangerous elements from other nations.