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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
