Chicago eagle., 1893-11-18
The North Side Congressmans Able Ar
raignment Of the Alabama Know.
nothing, Oates.
The Southerner Wanted Every Foreigner to Become
a Rich Man Before He Would Be Allowed
to Cast Vote

complishment of their revolution
and the establishment of their gov
ernment, or the important assistance
which they received from nation in
which the Roman Catholic faith is
prOfessed."
What glorious sentiment by a
glorious man: but what bitter con-
trast to the narrow-minded spirit Of
illiberality of to-day that inspires
laws which make it the duty of the
United States officials to defend
against ii. e., if possible, to defeat)
the petition of the sturdy emigrant,
who, after years of residence and good
behavior, seeks American citizenship
in order that he may cease to be an
alien in his new home, and may be
permitted to take upon himself the
duties and responsibilities of a citi-
zen.
A like spirit of liberality and
the desire to pay tribute to the
foreign-b born element for their valor
and bravery is evinced by George
Parke Custis, Washington's adopted
son, who embalmed his sentiments
upon this subject in poem inscribed
"to the friends of civil and religious
liberty" which gentlemen will find
published in the National Intelli-
gencer of October IA, 1928.
Passing from old history to the
present, we find that in our long
struggle for national unity, as in the
war for independence, the part taken
by the naturalized citizen was great,
and sheds luster around those whose
valor, whose devotion and patriotism
upheld and strengthed the nation in
the hour of her greatest need
1t is impossible to go into details;
but if you pass in muster the roll of
honor of those who paid with their
lives for the privileges Of American
citizenship; if you find where the
strife was thickest, where death
reaped its greatest harvest, you will
find that the foreign born citizen was
there in greatest numbers. If you
review the names of those to whom
the nation owes debt Of gratitude
in return for their sacrifices of life
and blood; if you recall those te
whom we have erected monuments
in every nook and corner of this
great Union, you will find unnum
5ered thousands among these whose
cradles stood on foreign shores anC
over whose bodies alien mothers wept
their bitter tears.
Mr.. Speaker, few days ago stood
upon the battlefield at trederickS
burg and with feeling of awe
trod the very ground which wa'
moistened on that sad December da,
in 1862 by the blood Of brave soldiers
In my thought | reviewed thos
brave among the brave, Meagher'
Irish brigade, as they advanced once
and again and again toward thos
: impregnable heights, to be repulset
: again and again. | saw, through
the vision of mind, the sad rally O
these troops after the din of battl
was over and / saw that Of the twelv
hundred who had greeted the dawn
: ing of that fatal day, barely two hun
dred and fifty responded to the roll
call at night.
| stood upon the very spot upO
) that battlefield where one OF my nea
kin, a brave soldier and a good pa
triot, died for his and my countr
leading his regiment (the gallan
: Sixty-sixth New York Volunteers)
a forlorn hope in his attack upon tn
J stone buttress OF the sunken road
r And as / Stood the words of the poet
penned in memory of that battle, re
, Cured to my mind, and involuntaril
my lips spoke;
Brigades from towns each village sent II
! band
German and Irish. every race and faith
There was no question then of native land
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weighed in the scales which detel
t mine our right TO live in and be cit
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d home of the free, then the foreign
70 born citizen who has given TO Ame
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d ureless streams of blood, is entitle
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,- birth, he Is entitled to more. lie hi
4 a right to be treated In this countI
y not as one who holds by mere sultc
ance a citizen of a lower order, bt
y he has a sacred claim on you, men
p American birth, which should imp
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