John Bingham on the Citizenship Clause

Akhil Amar's podcast recently featured a quote from John Bingham about the Citizenship Clause. For those interested, the quote comes from a speech Bingham gave that was reported by The Summit County Beacon of Akron, OH on September 26, 1867:

"We propose to settle all the difficulty of the Dred Scott Decision by putting it into the Constitution. If a man is not a citizen of the country in which he is born, in God's name of what country is he a citizen? If he may not live there, where has he a right to live? We propose to put it into the power of every man, woman, and child, black or white, rich or poor, when his rights are invaded, to raise his hand toward the flag, and say, I am an American citizen. [Great applause] Why should it not be so, now that all are free?"