The Gerindns were publicly denounced. Their newspapers were mobbed. their Turner halls were wrecked. And yet gentlemen who profess to see something awful in the immigration from eastern atid southeastern Europe claim that there was no opposition to the immigrants from northern and western Europe. In 1853 this feeling against foreign immigrants had grown so acute that the KnowNothing Party was organized. It was directed expressly against foreign immigrants. In the elections of 1854 it was very successful. and elected a large number of Members of Congress. In 1856 it had grown strong enough to put up a candidate for the Presidency.
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