Are there any better people than the Pennsylvanians? Are they a discredit to our Nation? Are they an asset to us in peace? Are they a source of strength to us in time of war? Have they added to the sum total of the moral standing and intellectual power of the people of the United States? Yet these people herded at that time. When the Irish first came here they came very largely. the great influx after the famine days. They were poor. they were ragged. they came in the steerage of ships. They were denounced. The highbrows met in indignation in all parts of the country.
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