He had faith in private virtue. commercial honesty. the energy of law and political honorfaith in their strength to give vitality and length of days to .the Nation. lHe knew that history teaches that mental power and moral principle must journey forward side by side. that the glory of a nations life is in its character and manhood. and that the only way to develop civilization on the outside is to develop it on the inside. He traveled the highway of life a friend of education. an advocate of the higher virtues. an ardent lover of the institutions of his country. never following after false political gods and never turning aside to the eccentric. the abnormal. the low. the baise. Believing in these principles. being inspired by the highest patriotism. he was a leadvr in the fight to restrict foreign immigration. and he left. as an everlasting legislative and political monument to his memory. the Burnett immigration bill. Those who heard him can never forget with what intensity and eloquence he pleaded for the passage of that bill. for the protection of the institutions of the Republic against the invasion of aliens whose presence would constitute such a menace to all that we have been taught to revere and hold sacred. -ICourage is one of the lordly virtues. Great souls are brave souls.
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Aliens are a menace to revered institutions.