ost
baneful foes of a Republican government."--WASHINGTON.

"I hope we may find some hope in future of shielding ourselves
from foreign influence, in whatever form it may be attempted. I
wish there were an ocean of fire between this and the old
world."--JEFFERSON.

"Foreign influence is a Grecian horse to the republic: we
cannot be too careful to exclude its entrance."--MADISON.

"There is an imperative necessity for reforming the
Naturalization Laws of the United States."--DANIEL WEBSTER.

"It is high time we should become a little more Americanized,
and instead of feeding the paupers and laborers of England,
feed our own; or else, in a short time, by our present policy,
we shall become paupers ourselves."--ANDREW JACKSON.

"I agree with the father of his country, that we should guard
with a jealousy becoming a free people, our institutions,
against the insidious wiles of foreign influence."--HENRY CLAY.

"Our naturalization laws are unquestionably defective, or our
alms-houses would not now be filled with paupers. Of the
134,000 paupers in the United States, 68,000 are foreigners,
and 66,000 natives. The annals of crime have swelled as the
jails of Europe have poured their contents into the country,
and the felon convict, reeking from a murder in Europe, or who
has had the fortune to escape punishment for any other crime
abroad, easily gains naturalization here, by spending a part of
five years within the limits of the United States. Our country
has become a Botany Bay, into which Europe annually discharges
her criminals of every description."--JOHN M. CLAYTON, United
States Senator.

Forty years ago, this subject came up in the Congress of the United
States, and that far-seeing statesman and patriot, JOHN RANDOLPH, of
Virginia, made a speech, from which we take the following extract:

"How long the country would endure this foreign yoke in its
most odious and disgusting form he could not tell, but this he
would say, that if we were to be dictated to and ruled by
foreigners, he would much rather be ruled by a British
Parliament than by British subjects here. Should he be told
that those men fought in the war of the Revolution, he would
answer, that those who did so were not included by him in the
class he adverted to. That was a ci