We are willing .to lead them to salvation. but we refuse them a place whereon to lay their heads. The doctrine of proscription ought never to be on the tongue of an American citizen. But I return to call the attention of those who do me the compliment of listening to the proof I propose to advance that the old immigrant was no better regarded than the present immigrant. I exclude. of course. the undesirable races referred to in the early part of my remarks. The old immigrant was inveighed against as is the new immigrant. The country was warned of the awful fate impending if it permitted them to land. And now a word or two upon that.
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