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I wish I had his eloquence of diction and gesticulation. with just a little bit more logic combined with it. I think then I could make a speech. This picture he drew of "the Immigrant." when he referred in criticism to my friend from New York . who is now under the surgeons knife or he would have been here. The picture which he drew of the Immigrant was eloquent all over. He says. "They come. they come. they come." And then he told how they came. "Came to the best country in the world." "not the worst country in the world." "They come." Yes. they come. and they came in colonial days. they came before the Revolution. they came during the Revolution. they came after the Revolution. they came between that and the Melean war. they came during the Mexican war. they came between that and the war between the States. they came during the war between the States. and they have come ever since. They have come in colonial days when we had no tariff of any sort. and were virtually restricted to trade with Great Britain. they came in the early days of the Republic. when we had a very low revenue tariff. they came later on under a higher. but not what we would now call a protective tariff. in 1816. and they continued to come after the tariff was reduced about 1826 or 1828.