There are provisions, as I said this morning, for the safeguard of naturalization, which I value much; but how small in value, compared with the establishment of that great principle which fixes forevermore the fundamental idea of the Republic!
Sumner contrasts the importance of naturalization provisions with the fundamental principles of the Republic.
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