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Title: Our Foreigners
A Chronicle of Americans in the Making
Author: Samuel P. Orth
Release Date: January 28, 2005 [EBook #14825]
Language: English
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THE CHRONICLES
OF AMERICA SERIES
ALLEN JOHNSON
EDITOR
GERHARD R. LOMER
CHARLES W. JEFFERYS
ASSISTANT EDITORS
OUR FOREIGNERS
A CHRONICLE OF
AMERICANS IN THE MAKING
BY SAMUEL P. ORTH
[Illustration]
NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
TORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & CO.
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
_1920, by Yale University Press_
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS
Page
I. OPENING THE DOOR 1
II. THE AMERICAN STOCK 21
III. THE NEGRO 45
IV. UTOPIAS IN AMERICA 66
V. THE IRISH INVASION 103
VI. THE TEUTONIC TIDE 124
VII. THE CALL OF THE LAND 147
VIII. THE CITY BUILDERS 162
IX. THE ORIENTAL 188
X. RACIAL INFILTRATION 208
XI. THE GUARDED DOOR 221
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 235
INDEX 241
OUR FOREIGNERS
CHAPTER I
OPENING THE DOOR
Long before men awoke to the vision of America, the Old World was the
scene of many stupendous migrations. One after another, the Goths, the
Huns, the Saracens, the Turks, and the Tatars, by the sheer tidal
force of their numbers threatened to engulf the ancient and medieval
civilization of Europe. But neither in the motives prompting them nor
in the effect they produced, nor yet in the magnitude of their
numbers, will such migrations bear comparison with the great exodus of
European peoples which in the course
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