 Washington that the bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges if by decency...  Immigration: Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session - Seite 512von United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization - 1965 - 961 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1856 - 642 Seiten
...grand and noble words of George Washington. Lay them to heart, 0 blind and foolish Know-Nothings : " The bosom of America is open to receive, not only...but the oppressed and persecuted of ALL NATIONS and of ALL RELIGIOUS, whom we shall welcome to a participation in all our rights and privileget." So, the... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1871 - 156 Seiten
...inhabitants of the Kingdom of Ireland, who have lately arrived in the city of New York," George Washington said : " The bosom of America is open to receive not...; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct, they appear to merit the enjoyment."... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1871 - 148 Seiten
...inhabitants of the Kingdom of Ireland, who have lately arrived in the city of New York," George Washington said : " The bosom of America is open to receive not...; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct, they appear to merit the enjoyment."—London... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Common Council - 1870 - 1014 Seiten
...your countrymen, to our brethern who have been prisoners of war, are neither unknown or unregarded. The bosom of America is open to receive not only the...and persecuted of all nations and religions ; whom she shall welcome to a participation of all our right» and privileges, if by decency and propriety... | |
 | United States. President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization - 1953 - 340 Seiten
...necessarily implying that newcomers would join the community. In 1783 George Washington declared : The bosom of America is open to receive not only the...persecuted of all nations and religions ; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1955 - 308 Seiten
...remember and act on the words of the father of our country, George Washington, who said, and I quote : The bosom of America is open to receive not only the...oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions. Mr. Chairman, Senator Jenner, I am indeed very grateful to you for this opportunity to appear before... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 630 Seiten
...continued by saying that he would conclude this portion of his remarks in the language of Washington. "The bosom of America is open to receive, not only...but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and of all religions, whom we shall welcome to a participation in all our rights and privileges."22 Gov.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 - 1968 - 110 Seiten
...truly liberal view with qualifications on immigration was set forth long ago by George Washington : The bosom of America, is open to receive not only...religions, whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 - 1968 - 102 Seiten
...truly liberal view with qualifications on immigration was set forth long ago by George Washington : The bosom of America, is open to receive not only...religions, whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.... | |
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