Dutch. Swedes. and the Huguenot stek. the imaginary 83 per cent of English who fought for American independence dwindles rapidly and probably did not greatly exceed a million. If place of birth or " racial origin" alone is to determine who is to be excluded. and under this conception immigrants of English. Scotch. and Welsh stock are to benefit by our hospitality and another pioneer stock is to suffer the pains of discrimination. the stock so favored should be recorded in our history as rendering proportionate service to their adopted conniry In time of need. If we drop the "racialorigin theory and apply the yardstick of performance in the emergency arising during the Civil War for soldiers to defend the Union. we find the ratio fixed by the Carnegie Foundation completely reversed37 per cent of the foreignborn soldiers in the Union Army were of German and only 8 per cent of English birth. according to the officially published Investigation in the Statistics of American Soldiers. by B.
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