BEECHER ON IMMIGRATION.
The Rev Mr Beecher, the famous American preacher, recently spoke of immigration in his own characteristic fashion. He said :—“ Immigration, I thank God for it, but the flood of foreign citzens in this country is our peculiar trouble—that it is to say the Irish, if we speak good English. The Irish people stand alone the most mercurial of men ; men of great genius ; the most admirable creatures that ever abominated earth. They have been ablest destroyers of nations that ever were combined into armies; they never built a nation and never will, pure and simple, but cross the breed and they are admirable. T hey come to ns pure and simple, and are vexatious to municipal government. Good as they are in labour, they do more mischief in politics. Thank God Ireland has got no more to send, so I thank God even for immigration from Ireland.”
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Patea Mail, 30 August 1882, Page 4
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