Franklin. Jefferson. and the other signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their lives. fortunes. and sacred honor in support of the Declaration. but it took 7 long years of bloodshed and suffering to make independence a fact. The people who have emigrated to America have come here seeking the free exercise of rights denied them in their own countries. The French Huguenots came here seeking the right to worship as they pleased--and found that right. The Irish fled their homeland because they could enjoy here the right of selfgovernment. The subject people of Austria and Russia found in America that freedom denied them in their own lands. Many people came to this country from Germany shortly after the failure of the revolution of 1848. in which the German people rose against the ruling class and demanded their rights. After putting down the revolution the rulers of Germany became increasingly oppressive and hundreds of thousands of the common people emigrated to other lands. the greater number to America. Up to the present time the American people have continuously fought for. and succeeded in adding to. their rights. Will it be said that in 1937 the tide turned and they commenced to lose them? Will the tide of freedomseeking emigrants turn the other way? Will Americans have to leave their own country to seek their rights? I trust not.
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