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Read the whole thing. It's amazing.

[cripplecreek]

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

[Tennessee Nana]

PING

[freedumb2003]

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.

[ansel12]

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.

[Jacquerie]

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?

[Tennessee Nana]

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.

[cripplecreek]

The map that shows where America came from: Fascinating illustration shows the ancestry of EVERY county in the US

[magna carta]

Worthy of a blogpost

[SandRat]

Shots down La-Raza, NAACP, etc.

[aquila48]

How far (down) we have come.

[gorush]

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

[LibertarianLiz]

Nor was Affirmative Action; which, puts these darker skinned folks flooding over our southern border, at the head of the line for college, jobs, you name it.

[Verginius Rufus]

Very interesting and thoughtful letter.

The principle of treating everyone alike was abandoned in the 1960s with the advent of "affirmative action," which gives people preferences based on the accident of their birth (how many people choose before their birth which race and which sex they will belong to?).

[untenured]

It is a remarkable letter, one that seems to describe a different country. Who in our country could today say with a straight face something like the remarks below?

"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."

The whole thing is full of passages like that that read like a document from an ancient civilization.

[CivilWarBrewing]

The WASPs are witnessing their own demise and have been reduced to merely talking about it.

[TYVets]

The governments are the servants of the people, and are so considered by the people, who place and displace them at their pleasure.

They are chosen to manage for short periods the common concerns, and when they cease to give satisfaction, they cease to be employed.

If the powers, however, of the government to do good are restricted, those of doing harm are still more limited.

The dependence, in affairs of government, is the reverse of the practice in Europe, instead of the people depending upon their rulers, the rulers, as such, are always dependent upon the good will of the people.

[EternalVigilance]

Excellent post.