Brought Forth on this Continent

Introduction - For the Encouragement of Immigration

"In regard our emigtants as one of the principal replenishing streams appointed by Providence to repair the ravages of internal war, and it's wastes of national strength and health."

-Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1864

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Lincoln intended to deliver a speech proposing the financing of foreign immigration to the United States [Congretional Globe, 37th Congress, 3rd Session, 1029] **alot of good quotes

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Immigration is the issue said to have destroyed the Whig Party [lincoln spent most of his political career as a Whig]

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"a great deficiency of laborers in every field of industry, especially in agriculture and in our mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals."

-Abraham Lincoln

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Harrison Gray Otis quote -

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New York Tribune pro Abraham Lincoln

Richmond Examiner anti Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln and the Immigrant - Jason H. Silverman

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An Act to Encourage Immigration - July 4, 1864

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Lincoln thought it was the government's duty "to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all." In respects to Immigration.

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John George Nicolay, Lincolns private secretary, editor of the Pike County Free Press. German born, immigrated in 1838 with his parents [never legally obtained his citizenship papers, voted for Lincoln "illegally"]

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Associates of Abraham Lincoln

German:

Carl Schurz

Gustave Koerner

Franz Sigel

Irish:

James Shields

John Huges, Archbishop

Thomas Francis Meagher

Chapter 2 notes

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In the 1830s Irish Catholic immigration took over Pennsylvania, "altered its original Quaker character."

Rumors of Papel interference in the school caused riots in Philidelphia 1844. Over wanting to change which bibles were read in school.

James Harper credited with being the founder of the Order of United Americans (OUA), aka Know Nothings)

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Samuel F B Morse > American Protestant Union

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Singapore Journal, known as Lincolns Mouthpiece

Rev John J Hughes armed Irishmen and took up arms in St Patrick's Cathedral

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Mary Todd Lincoln in the 1840s would make use of "agencies specializing in finding domestic work for newly arrived migrants."