National origins provision of immigration law

Bibliographic data

Monograph

Identifikator:: 1796380105

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-196168

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: National origins provision of immigration law

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: III, 171 S

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Monograph

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Statement of Dr. Herbert Friedenwald, Washington, D.C.

Collection:: Economics Books

NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW 59 hey reflect that after they shall have'violated every Christian and moral pre- rept by invading and attempting to destroy those who have never injured them or their country, their only reward if they escape death and captivity will be a return to the despotism of their prince, to be by him again sold to do the drudgery of some other enemy to the rights of mankind. } And whereas the Parliament of Great Britain have thought fit by a late act got merely to invite our troops to desert our service but to direct a compulsion sf our people taken at sea to serve against their country: . Resolved, therefore, That these States will receive all such foreigners who shall leave the armies of his Britannic Majesty in America and shall choose to become members of any of these States; that they shall be protected in the free exercise of their respective religions and be snvested with the rights, privi- leges, and immunities of natives, as established by the laws of these States; and, moreover, that this Congress will provide for every such person 50 acres of unappropriated lands in some of these States, to be held by him and his heirs in absolute DrODErty. Resolved, That the foregoing resolution be committed to the committee who prought in the report, and that they be directed to have it translated into German and to take proper measures to have it communicated to the foreign troops. In the meanwhile that this be kept secret. Resolved, That Doctor Franklin be added to said committee: Among the immigrants who have made this country the great coun- cry it is and among the prospective immigrants are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people, pioneers in every sense of the term, as great ploneers as the original settlers, who are as much worthy to have your most serious consideration of their fate as those despised and contemned Hessians and Hanoverians whom the fathers Jeemed worthy of inviting to participate on the terms I have just read to you in the benefits to be derived from membership in our body politic. In conclusion I wish to draw the attention of the Senator from Pennsylvania to an earlier edition of the volume I have just now read from. It bears the signature of “B. Reed ” also a distinguished Pennsylvanian. Perhaps he was an ancestor of the Senator and he can enlighten us as to his national origin. . denator Reep. He was Scotch-Irish, Doctor. Doctor FriepexwaLp. I know it. Perhaps you would like to look at the volume that bears the signature of a Signer of the Declara- tion of Independence. (Handing volume to the chairman). That is all T have to say, sir. Phe Cramvax. Are there any questions that are desired to be oropounded to the doctor? Senator Nyu. Doctor, are you prepared to pass judgment on the availability or feasibility of the 1890 census as a basis for quotas, or the 1790 census? Do you believe there is any difference between the two? Doctor FrippeNwarp, I am not prepared to make any definite statement as to my opinion, because I did not know the question was going to be asked, or I might have looked up and confirmed my ciows that I held some years ago when I examined the census of £790, and this report Senator Johnson has referred to awhile ago. The difficulties in my mind in establishing anything on the basis of the 1790 census is, if I recall it correctly, and 1f I do not, Senator Reed can correct me, is that the names form the basis, to a large axtent at least, of the. determination of what the racial origin Is. Now, I can tell you of a case in point, and this has prevailed throughout all time: A man came to see me some years ago, and

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: National origins provision of immigration law

Monograph

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation