What! a soldier, and afraid!” What! a Senator of the United States anxious about a million of Chinese twenty-five or thirty years from now absorbed in that mighty one hundred millions which will then compose our population!
Sumner criticizes a senator's fear of future Chinese immigration, emphasizing the absurdity of such concerns.
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