It is merely the legal term for an unnaturalized foreigner who is still a citizen of another nation. and owes his allegiance to another government. When the Constitution was drafted. not only was there no such thing as the stirring up of the peasantry of Europe by great steamboat companies in order that they might make profits by bringing people to the United States.. but the steamboat itself had not been invented. The men who laid the foundation of this Nation never conceived the possibility of immigration either so great or of such a character that it would be difficult to assimilate. A large proportion of those who started the new Republic on its way had themselves come from across the water. They came to become citizens.
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