The Jew is everywhere acknowledged to be a firstclass American citizen. and since the foundation of our American national life his exemplary conduct as citizen and man has earned for him the respect and fellowship of all selfrespecting Americans. And this bill would deny to hundreds of libertyloving Jews an asylun ill America. driven hence by a passionblinded populace. and colnpelledas 5.000.000 of them are abroadto live in a district embracing but onetwentythird of the ruling Empire. With starvation and discontent ever rife through this illjudged crowding of the .Jewish race abroad. this bill will deny a haven for the oppressed. who are driven to either starvation or emigration by the despotic Government of the Czar. What a shameless contrast this proscriptive bill presents when compared with the writings of George Washington. the father of our liberties. In a letter written to the Hebrew congregations of the city of Savannah.
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