Jefferson among them. was the prospect that these great groups of people coining to the United States would find themselves unable to weld themselves together into one American people. He knew they could not be welded together in one great American people unless they exercised unceasing vigilance against the injection of European politics into American domestic politics.. The country from his day to this day has managed to assimilate this tremendous tide -of immigration. because as fast as these people have reached our shores and have started in to earn their living and- to pursue their happiness. they have found an atmosphere removed coinpletely and entirely from the intrigues and the turmoils of the countries from which they came. The result has been that the Greeks and the Bulgarians have lived here side by side in peace. the Englishman and the Irishman have lived here side by side in peace. as have the German and the Frenchman. the Austrian and the Hungarian. the Pole and the Russian. not forgetting the. affection which they naturally owe to their. mother countries. but conscious of the fact that they have reached a country where they are free from those prejudices. intrigues. and turmoils. and where men. no matter what their national or racial origin. could start out free and endowed with the opportunity of! working out their own salvation as American citizens and American citizens first. So they have forgotten the politics. the intrigues. and the frictions of the Old World. and by reason of their being able to forget them this American people is a united people today.
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