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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

-Samuel Smiles

Know Nothing about Immigration

It's funny how long this same argument has been around:

"The Know Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1850s. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to American values and controlled by the Pope in Rome. Mainly active from 1854-56, it strove to curb immigration and naturalization, though its efforts met with little success. There were few prominent leaders, and the largely middle-class and Protestant membership fragmented over the issue of slavery, most often joining the Republican Party by the time of the 1860 presidential election."

We should have built a fence around Boston and New York. Now look what we've got: Damn Irish Catholics and their Rock and Roll music. Oh, and Bono.

Posted by Rammage on April 12, 2008 at 10:06 AM

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Know Nothing about Immigration

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