President. I have the second point to urge. which I beg my learned friends. as we are speaking in this matter as in a conversation. to contemplate with me. I could not give my approval to a principle which makes the test of education the right to enter into this country without conceding that there was inherentlyin the country the right to make education the test of deporting a man out of the country. for the very moment we concede that principle in this Government we break down every ideal. shatter every foundation. and destroy the theory upon which we are founded for the preservation of liberty and the advancement of freedom to man. Sir. after that. that before a man can enjoy the principles on which this Government was founded we should have a form of educational qualification. the very next step must be that no man then would have a right to remain in the country who has already come in unless he likewise has the same qualification. and there will be a clamor at the door of the Capitol on the part of the very same influences that are seeking to inscribe this particular qualification in the law to deport all those already in the country if they likewise are not within the privileges of this exemption. Therefore I fear the introduction of this innovation.
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