The country people either came themselves or sent agents or friends to procure whlat they wanted. be it a girl or a "likely" boy. or an old housekeeper or a whole family.. * * * Parents sold their children in order to remain free themselves. When a young man or girl had an opportunity to get married they had to pay their master �5 or �6 for each year they had to serve. Yet a steerage passage never cost more than �10. � * * If the master did not want to keep his servant. he could sell hIm for the unexpired time of his term of servitude. And you stand here advocating this bill. denouncing the poor fellow who comes to the country now. and must come with money in his pocket and witilout any contract and must pass a physical. examination before he can enter and can show that he is morally clean. You stand here and denounce him and pronounce a eulogy and. an encomium upon.the anc.ient .immigrant who came here in bonds and legal chains. How many of the aristocrats of today can trace their ancestry back to that illustrious period? But. sir.
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