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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