The United States: An Experiment in DemocracyHarper, 1920 - 332 páginas |
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... German migration to the United States has been pretty constant , but it reached its greatest extent between 1850 and 1890. In this period , powerful influences in driving Germans to America were the failure of the liberal political ...
... German migration to the United States has been pretty constant , but it reached its greatest extent between 1850 and 1890. In this period , powerful influences in driving Germans to America were the failure of the liberal political ...
Página 239
... Germans - that is to say , almost the only group that spoke a foreign language . Under these circumstances it was difficult ... German ; my father could not speak anything but English , nor could any one have guessed , either from his ap ...
... Germans - that is to say , almost the only group that spoke a foreign language . Under these circumstances it was difficult ... German ; my father could not speak anything but English , nor could any one have guessed , either from his ap ...
Página 240
... Germans who could barely speak a word or two of English ; and a " typical " little Amer- ican boy , who was himself ... German , and now learned for the first time this marvelous thing - namely , that there were people in the world who ...
... Germans who could barely speak a word or two of English ; and a " typical " little Amer- ican boy , who was himself ... German , and now learned for the first time this marvelous thing - namely , that there were people in the world who ...
Página 241
... German family , and sometimes found himself inveigled by them into their house in order to get some- thing to eat ... German ; and no one in that Iowa farming community ever needed to speak German . To speak nothing but Ger- man was as ...
... German family , and sometimes found himself inveigled by them into their house in order to get some- thing to eat ... German ; and no one in that Iowa farming community ever needed to speak German . To speak nothing but Ger- man was as ...
Página 242
... German , and no doubt much better in the course of time . They went with the little American boys and girls to the " district school , " where they studied the same books and played the same games and acquired the same manners as other ...
... German , and no doubt much better in the course of time . They went with the little American boys and girls to the " district school , " where they studied the same books and played the same games and acquired the same manners as other ...
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Página 212 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Página 135 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. " The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
Página 125 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens), the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government...
Página 269 - ... and it is further ordered, that where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Página 212 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Página 124 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Página 268 - It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general...
Página 212 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them.
Página 201 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will...
Página 195 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.