Here, as always, the highest safety is in doing right. Justice is ever practical, ever politic; it is the best practice, the best policy. Whatever reason shows to be just cannot, when reduced to practice, produce other than good. And now I simply ask you to be just. To those who find peril in the growing multitudes admitted to citizenship I reply, that our Republic assumed these responsibilities when it declared the equal rights of all men, and that just government stands only on the consent of the governed. Hospitality of citizenship is the law of its being. This is its great first principle; this is the talisman of its empire. Would you conquer Nature, follow Nature; and here, would you conquer physical diversities, follow that moral law declared by our fathers, which is the highest law of Nature, and supreme above all men. Welcome, then, to the stranger hurrying from opposite shores, across two great oceans,--from the East, from the West,--with the sun, against the sun! Here he cannot be stranger. If the Chinese come for labor only, we have the advantage of their wonderful and docile industry. If they come for citizenship, then do they offer the pledge of incorporation in our Republic, filling it with increase. Nor is there peril in the gifts they bring. As all rivers are lost in the sea, which shows no sign of their presence, so will all peoples be lost in the widening confines of our Republic, with an ocean-bound continent for its unparalleled expanse, and one harmonious citizenship, where all are equal in rights, for its gentle and impartial sway. CURRENCY. REMARKS IN THE SENATE, ON INTRODUCING A BILL TO AMEND THE BANKING ACT, AND TO PROMOTE THE RETURN TO SPECIE PAYMENTS, DECEMBER 7, 1869. The bill having been read twice by its title, Mr. Sumner said:-- At the proper time I shall ask the reference of this bill to the Committee on Finance; and if I can have the attention of my honorable friend, the Chairman of that Committee [Mr. SHERMAN], I should like now, as I have ventured to introduce the bill, to specify for his consideration seven different reasons in favor of it. It will take me only one minute. MR. SHERMAN. I should like to have the bill read, if the Senator has no objection. * * * * * The Secretary accordingly read the bill in full, as follows:--