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What John Quincy Adams Said About Immigration Will Blow Your Mind
The Federalist ^ | August 18, 2014 | D.C. McAllister

Posted on 09/20/2014 1:57:15 PM PDT by MSSC6644

We often hear about the glory days of immigration when America threw open her arms to the huddled masses, but one thing you don’t hear about is how those people had to make it on their own without a government safety net. There was plenty of private charity, which was highly encouraged, but health care, a minimum-wage job, college entrance, housing, legal representation, and education certainly weren’t promised—not like today.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: aliens; handouts; hardwork; immigration; policy
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Read the whole thing. It's amazing.
1 posted on 09/20/2014 1:57:15 PM PDT by MSSC6644
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To: MSSC6644

Well we German descent folks are the single largest group in America these days.


2 posted on 09/20/2014 2:00:16 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: Liz; AuntB; La Lydia; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

PING


3 posted on 09/20/2014 2:01:57 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: MSSC6644

When I married my wife from Mexico I had to prove I could financially support her before they would issue the Fiancee visa.

That was 20 years ago.

The liberals have driven us into a rut since then.


5 posted on 09/20/2014 2:04:38 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
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To: MSSC6644

People don’t realize that immigration didn’t really start until the times approaching the Civil War, the first generations of Americans accepted about 6,000 people a year, and of course most of those were similar or in some way connected to the people who founded the nation.

It is a myth that we created the nation and then welcomed the world to start flocking in, that was done much later, politics never really change, and boy, did immigration bring in the European politics.


6 posted on 09/20/2014 2:05:50 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: cripplecreek

What a thought filled letter that was well written, clear, and concise. Can anyone imagine either former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or Secretary of State John F. Kerry ever writing such an eloquent letter?


7 posted on 09/20/2014 2:05:55 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: MSSC6644
Emigrants from Germany, therefore, or from elsewhere, coming here, are not to expect favors from the governments.

My, my. Did he refer to those state thingies, which today exist to serve Rome-on-the-Potomac?

8 posted on 09/20/2014 2:06:29 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: Liz; AuntB; La Lydia; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

But there is one principle which pervades all the institutions of this country, and which must always operate as an obstacle to the granting of favors to new comers. This is a land, not of privileges, but of equal rights. Privileges are granted by European sovereigns to particular classes of individuals, for purposes of general policy; but the general impression here is that privileges granted to one denomination of people, can very seldom be discriminated from erosions of the rights of others.

Emigrants from Germany, therefore, or from elsewhere, coming here, are not to expect favors from the governments. They are to expect, if they choose to become citizens, equal rights with those of the natives of the country. They are to expect, if affluent, to possess the means of making their property productive, with moderation, and with safety;—if indigent, but industrious, honest and frugal, the means of obtaining easy and comfortable subsistence for themselves and their families.

They come to a life of independence, but to a life of labor—and, if they cannot accommodate themselves to the character, moral, political, and physical, of this country, with all its compensating balances of good and evil, the Atlantic is always open to them, to return to the land of their nativity and their fathers.

9 posted on 09/20/2014 2:07:21 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: MSSC6644
The map that shows where America came from: Fascinating illustration shows the ancestry of EVERY county in the US


10 posted on 09/20/2014 2:07:38 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: MSSC6644

Worthy of a blogpost


11 posted on 09/20/2014 2:08:17 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: MSSC6644

Shots down La-Raza, NAACP, etc.


12 posted on 09/20/2014 2:09:33 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Tennessee Nana

the Atlantic is always open to them, to return to the land of their nativity and their fathers.
____________________________________________

OH NOOOOOOEZ

Adams was a rasis...

Deportation...separating families...

HATER !!!


13 posted on 09/20/2014 2:10:46 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: cripplecreek

Have you ever read what Franklin thought of the German immigrants?


14 posted on 09/20/2014 2:12:16 PM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: magna carta
Worthy of a blogpost

Feel free. I've never done one before. (I mainly just read and sometimes comment, even though I've been here a very long time.)

15 posted on 09/20/2014 2:13:18 PM PDT by MSSC6644
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To: Tennessee Nana

BTTT.


16 posted on 09/20/2014 2:14:14 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: MSSC6644

How far (down) we have come.


17 posted on 09/20/2014 2:22:26 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Tennessee Nana
J/Q/A...."if they cannot accommodate themselves to the character, moral, political, and physical, of this country, the Atlantic is always open to them, to return to the land of their nativity and their fathers....."

Little did he realize the Rio Grande would be a port of entry.....

Or that oath-takers like Dick Durbin (Dem--Ill) is blaming the Ebola epidemic in Africa in part on House Republicans’ failure to pass the Senate amnesty giveaway.

18 posted on 09/20/2014 2:24:31 PM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: Liz

Durbin’s remark is right up there with Nancy Pelosi....or the guy who thought Guam could tip over.

You’d think they’d be embarrassed by their stupidity but I suppose being a liberal means never having to say you’re sorry.


19 posted on 09/20/2014 2:29:41 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coups d’état .)
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To: MSSC6644

JQA is one of our most interesting Presidents. “John Quincy Adams” by Paul C. Nagel will surprise and delight you.


20 posted on 09/20/2014 2:35:12 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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