Session #44 · 1875–77

Speech #440059021

They have come already by the tens of thousands. ay by the hundreds of thousands. to the Pacific coast. whole streets of our cities are occupied by them to the exclusion of all other classes. and it goes on with accelerated force. The Senator says let them come with all their traditional vices. with all their inadaptability to our institutions. to levy tribute from us. to plunder usit amounts merely to thatand then return to their own country with their spoil. If they came here to be citizens. as does the German. or the Irishman. or any other class of immigrants which America has ever seen before. it would stand on a different basis. Bit there is nothing in the principles of the republican party that requires the subversion of this country by a flood of ignorance and vice. eliminating American citizens. freedomloving citizens sustaining our institutions. our churches. our schools. our familieseliminating them to make room for pagan superstition and heathenism. I reject that idea either of republicanism or democracy.
Identified stereotypes
They come with all their traditional vices, with all their inadaptability to our institutions, to levy tribute from us, to plunder us.
Keywords matched
immigrants

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Germans Irish
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Cultural threat Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
AARON SARGENT
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
CA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
440059021
Paragraph
#0
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