Republican Landmarks: The Views and Opinions of American Statesmen on Foreign Immigration. Being a Collection of Statistics of Population, Pauperism, Crime, Etc. With an Inquiry Into the True Character of the DUnited States Government, and Its Policy on the Subject of Immigration, Naturalization of Aliens, EtcJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1856 - 367 páginas |
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... Irish , German , and English , it will be thus seen , constituted considerably over two - thirds of the entire foreign population . Of the remainder , 147,711 were from British Ame- rica ; 70,550 from Scotland ; 54,069 from France ...
... Irish , German , and English , it will be thus seen , constituted considerably over two - thirds of the entire foreign population . Of the remainder , 147,711 were from British Ame- rica ; 70,550 from Scotland ; 54,069 from France ...
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... Irish , and 26,824 German . But few of the Irish appear to be engaged in agricultural pursuits ; they are chiefly in the commercial and manufacturing States . Of the 961,719 in the country in 1850 , there then were 857,345 residents in ...
... Irish , and 26,824 German . But few of the Irish appear to be engaged in agricultural pursuits ; they are chiefly in the commercial and manufacturing States . Of the 961,719 in the country in 1850 , there then were 857,345 residents in ...
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... Irish , 4,586 are German , and 12,511 from other countries . In Wisconsin , according to the returns of the recent Census of that State , there has also been a large increase in the foreign population since the year 1850 , especially in ...
... Irish , 4,586 are German , and 12,511 from other countries . In Wisconsin , according to the returns of the recent Census of that State , there has also been a large increase in the foreign population since the year 1850 , especially in ...
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... Irish exodus commenced . It then rose to 300,000 per annum , and now , with the aid of similar exoduses from Ger- many , China and other countries , it has swelled to a half million a year . Mr. Kennedy , the Superintendent of the ...
... Irish exodus commenced . It then rose to 300,000 per annum , and now , with the aid of similar exoduses from Ger- many , China and other countries , it has swelled to a half million a year . Mr. Kennedy , the Superintendent of the ...
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... Irish , German , French , and other descent - a result which accords with the estimate of Bancroft , and with the common sense view of the subject . An analysis of this foreign population is then made with candor and skill , the process ...
... Irish , German , French , and other descent - a result which accords with the estimate of Bancroft , and with the common sense view of the subject . An analysis of this foreign population is then made with candor and skill , the process ...
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Página 352 - the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own ; nor those of my fellow-citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the
Página 334 - well: For him no minstrel raptures swell: High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Página 360 - system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be incited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments, as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a
Página 353 - Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue 1 The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible by its vices
Página 80 - the migration or importation of such persons as any of the States, now existing, shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax may be imposed on such importation not exceeding ten dollars for each person:
Página 288 - apprehended from any attempt to disturb it. The second resolution of the series proposed by Mr. Randolph was in these words: " That the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different cases.
Página 309 - of the several States, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part thereof, when the same shall have been ratified by three-fourths at least of the Legislatures of the several States, or by conventions in thr^e-fourths thereof, as the one or the other
Página 335 - here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole." In the memorials of Mr. Pownall, who lived eight years in the colonies, from
Página 125 - required two years' residence as a qualification for citizenship, and was embraced in one section, which was as follows: " That any alien, being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two