The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.
Grover Cleveland: “The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now…”
On the recordMarch 1, 1897
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