While it is true that many of our common sailors engaged in our cod and other fisheries are of foreign birth, it is equally true that they, almost all of them, come to live in this country, get naturalized and become ardent Americans.
Hoar highlights that many foreign-born sailors in American fisheries become naturalized citizens and patriotic Americans.
Share
More from George F. Hoar
But I cannot see it to be my duty to join in a secession from the Whig Party for the purpose of putting Mr.
I am afraid they have of late yielded for a time to one strong temptation and missed an opportunity for still greater glory, that never will come back.
As it is, the jetties have been of great value and well worth their cost.
I believe that as time goes on, the great self-restraint of the American people in dealing with the momentous peril of 1877, and the constructive ability which created the simple but perfect mechanism of the Electoral Commission, will…
Other voices in this conversation
