I now desire to call attention to the following questions: Is the immigrant patriotic? Does he love liberty? Is he attached to our institutions? The foregoing questions are answered in the affirmative by every page of our countrys history. First. Nine signers of the Declaration of Independence were born in foreign lands. Second. Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin were born In the West Indies. Third. Several of the most distinguished officers of the Revolution were foreigners. who out of pure love of liberty came here to assist us. Without their assistance the cause of the patriots might have failed. Among these are: Lafayette. whose story is upon the tongue of every schoolboy.
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