When I came to Congress the Burlingame treaty had just been adopted. and we were making our boast that here was a nation. to use Mr. Lowells famous linesWhose free latchstring was never drawed in Against the poorest child of Adams kin. And the whole American people believed that doctrine. California herself believed it quite as religiously as did Massachusetts. The great evil came up which the Senator from Nevada has so well stated and without any exaggeration. and the evil in regard to some classes of European immigration which my colleague had occasion to state. in advocating a bill under consideration a year or two ago. with equal force and precision of statement. because. Mr. President. these things are not matters of race.
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