Surely we have room for more like them in every State in the Unionroom and needso keel down your timid. selfish bars and let them come. "America for men " spells nobility in national conceptIon. "America for Americans" sounds solemn. if selfish. but smells like an ancient corpse. Several learned gentlemen have boasted of colonial ancestors and hinted that it conferred proprietary rights to this country. but I am not convinced that their title is good. I have not forgotten that many learned and respectable men during those heroic days were Tories. and when I hear men of this generation speak with sneers of our immigrants. as I have in this Chamber. I suspect that during that awful winter while Washington and his soldiery of common men were freezing at Valley Forge. the boasted ancestors. the great grandmothers of my accomplished friends. were waltzing with the British officers in the ballrooms of Philadelphia. And I wish to remind these "America for Americans " gentlemen that the records in this capital disclose the fact that more than onehalf of the men who fought in the American ievolution were men of Irish blood or descent. that the names of nine Irishmen are signed to the Declaration of Independence. that French.
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