To encourage or even to permit such an immigration, would be to dedicate the rich Pacific slope to them alone and to their employers--in short, to create a worse evil in the remote West than that which led to bloody war in the South.
Blaine argues against Chinese immigration, emphasizing its detrimental effects on American labor.
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The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.
If you are not ready to be the Moses of an oppressed people, do not become their Pharaoh.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
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