"In the recommendation to admit indiscriminately foreign emigrants of every description to the privileges of American citizens on their first entrance into our country, there is an attempt to break down every pale which has been erected for the preservation of a national spirit and a national character; and to let in the most powerful means of perverting and corrupting both the one and the other." | by: | |
Source: | Alexander Hamilton, The Examination, No. 9 (January 18, 1802). |
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