It was swelled by a stream from a different source after the political troubles on the Continent in 1848. It was still increased through the continual succession of wars in which Europe was engagedfor the quarter of a century beginning with the Crimean war in 1853. In the meantime. whereas the greatest number of immigrants that ever came to these shores. prior to 1832. was found In the immigration. I think. of 1830. of 27.382. and whereas the fir:st year when the immigration passed a hundred thousand was in 1842. when it reached 104.565. this stream swelled still year after year until hundreds of thousands grew to millions. and a very large part of our people came to be composed either of emigrants or the children of emigrants. and our repudiation of the old doctrine of indefeasible allegiance was a repudiation based upon that clearer view which came from an immediate contact with the living needs of mankind as exhibited by those who came to us from their old homes. This process. Mr.
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