This is an American

Article V Blog ^ | February 1st 2017 | Rodney Dodsworth

[Jacquerie]

Amidst the manufactured angst over President Trump’s enforcement of immigration law, I recalled a few passages from Locke in America, by Jerome Huyler. As opposed to today’s social justice nonsense, which demands the acceptance of any and all foreigners, including barbarians intent on our destruction, immigrants to our shores in the latter-18th century had different aspirations. From Huyler:

No sooner does a European arrive, no matter of what condition, than his eyes are opened upon the fair prospects . . . Has he any particular talent or industry? He exerts it in order to procure a livelihood, and it succeeds. Is he a merchant? The avenues of trade are infinite. Is he eminent in any respect? He will be employed and respected. Does he love a country life? Pleasant farms present themselves. Is he a laborer, sober and industrious? He need not go many miles, nor receive many informations before he will be hired, (and) well fed at the table of his employer . . . Does he want uncultivated land? Thousands of acres present themselves . . . Whatever be his talents or inclinations, if they are moderate, he may satisfy them.

He no sooner breathes our air than he forms schemes and embarks in designs he never would have thought of in his own country . . . He begins to feel the effects of a sort of resurrection. Hitherto he had not lived, simply vegetated. He now feels himself a man because he is treated as such . . . Judge what an alteration there must arise in the mind and thought of this man. He begins to forget his former servitude and dependence. His heart involuntarily swells and glows. If he is a good man, . . .

[Fiddlstix]

[loveliberty2]

Thanks for posting!!

Some years ago, in doing some genealogy research on a family line, this information came to my attention concerning the man who printed our nation's Declaration of Independence. Of special note is his advice to family members in Ireland about the opportunity for freedom in America.

At the web site of PRONI, The Public Records of Northern Ireland - - can be found inspiring words about Irish emigrants to the U. S.

Of special note are the words of John Dunlap, an emigrant, who was responsible for the printing of the new nation's Declaraiton of Independence.

On 12 May 1785, he wrote from Philadelphia to his brother-in-law, Robert Rutherford, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, extolling the advantages of the New World and referred to his brother, James Dunlap, who was likewise in America:

"... my brother James left this for Kentucky a few weeks ago; I expect him back in the summer; then perhaps he may take a trip to Ireland. The account he gives of the soil is pleasing but the difficulty of going to it from this is great; indeed the distance is not less than a thousand miles. I was there last year and must confess that although the journey is a difficult one I did not begrudge the time and labour it cost me. We are told the parliament of Ireland means to lay restrictions on those who want to come from that country to this; time will tell whether or no this will answer the purpose they intend. People with a family advanced in life find great difficulties in emigration but the young men of Ireland who wish to be free and happy should leave it and come here as quick as possible; there is no place in the world where a man meets so rich a reward for good conduct and industry as in America ... "

Also excerpted from the PRONI site is the following observation from the DUNLAP/DELAP PAPERS at: http://www.proni.gov.uk/introduction__dunlap_delap_t1336.pdf

"John Dunlap's is not an untypical life story of many who 'went west' from Co. Tyrone in the 18th century to make a new life and create a new country to which they then encouraged and assisted others to migrate. One went and succeeded and therefore others followed. By the time he died, on 27 November 1812, aged 66, John Dunlap had amassed a large fortune and had subscribed £4,000 in 1780 to the National Bank formed to supply the American Army, and he held 98,000 acres in Virginia and the adjoining counties of Kentucky. He also owned the land on which Utica, Ohio, stands.

"He had played his part in military affairs during the War of Independence, as a founder in 1774 of the 1st Troop of Philadelphia City Cavalry; as a cornet he accompanied this command in the campaign of 1776-1777, taking part in actions at Princeton and Trenton. After the war, from 1789 to 1792, he was a member of the Common Council of Philadelphia. In 1812 he was buried at Christ Church, Philadelphia.

"The site of his birth at Meetinghouse Street, Strabane, is marked by a plaque erected by Strabane Urban District Council in 1965."

[Jacquerie]

Great story. Thanks.

[arthurus]

The modern theory of Immigration is Universal American Welfare. America owes the entire world a living.
The reason given by the proponents of that theory is that if America did not exist then all the riches of America and of Europe would be uniformly distributed in the rest of the world and the rest of the world would all be comfortably prosperous. To wit: America and Americans have stolen the birthright of the world and hoarded it in Americans' hands for the greedy benefit of Americans and their junior relatives, the Europeans and Australians. The case is obvious- prima facie, if you will. See? Americans are rich and Bengalis are poor. QED.

[Jacquerie]

Yes. Where the purpose of government used to be keeping individual rights, its been corrupted into keeping individuals comfortable.