In re Balsara

UACOMBE, Circuit Judge.

The phrase “free white persons” must be taken, as used with the same meaning in the various successive statutes in which it appears. There is much force in the argument that the Congress which framed the original act for naturalization of aliens (Act April 14, 1802, c. 28, 2 Stat. 153) intended it to include only *295•white persons belonging to those races whose emigrants had contributed to the building up on this continent of the community of people which declared itself a new nation, admission to the privileges of citizenship in which was by that statute sought to be…