Posted on 06/04/2007 5:26:33 PM PDT by bd476
A. Lincoln August 24, 1855
I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we begin by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.” When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty-to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.
History may not repeat itself...
but it certainly does rhyme.
Today’s “Know Nothings” are Kennedy, McCain, most of their Senate
colleagues, and a fair sector of the GOP.
Because they seem to “Know Nothing” when it comes to exercising
some common sense in dealing with illegal immigrants.
And they hope that the majority of legal residents of the USA will
“know nothing” about how they are engineering a MUCH WORSE version
of Simpson-Mazzoli. And the order-of-magnitudes bigger mess they are
just about to enshrine in legislation.
Go watch or better read “Gangs of New York”. Read about the immigrant-dominated political machines, which ran most cities, including New York.
Speaking as a drunken, papist, mick, has anybody noticed that unlike the emrald isle, Mexico shares a contiguous border with the United States?
Further, unlike the Emrald Isle, there has been past conflict between the US and Mexico which resulted in positioning borders where they are now?
Also speaking as papist, gorilla-like paddy, has anyone noticed that the Mexicans in their “Su Casa es Mi Casa” demonstrations were talking about taking back territory? Not something you saw with turn of the century immigrants.
Call me an arrogant Mick, but Mexico as a country displays nothing but contemptible backwardness driven by elitism and corruption. It is nothing but “no-nothingness” that leads me to reject that? Chinga-te. Do you not think that the poor peasants that flock here will bring that system with them just as we glorious Irish brought a talent for politics?
Ahhh for a wee bit o’ history let us also contemplate the disdain that the elite of England felt for the common Irish which is mirrored by our political elite’s contempt for us commoners. ‘Tis the march of socialism that must be furthered, you angry white Americans are in the way of our unimpeded march’.
With an uninterrupted 70 year record of failure for socialism, who is the real know-nothing?
“We’ll give some land to the Ni——s and the Ch—ks, but not the Irish.” - Blazing Saddles
Sadly, the blood of many a lad of Irish ancestry was given while serving with the New York 69th Infantry Regiment to wipe that stain away.
Remember the signs in doorways and windows of businesses?
No Catholics Nedd Apply
Talk about discirmination!
Absolutely. We should have annexed the northern provinces. They want jobs and opportunity, build them there where they have resources that are tied up by the Mexican ultra-rich.
BTW, my son went to a military school in the US where many of the Mexican elites send their sons for a year. Of interest was that many of these scions of the ultra rich did not know how to complete their own toillette if you catch my drift. They were so rich that they had servants that cleaned their orifices. Astounding!
Mexico is the true example of the two nations that John Edwards is talking about, yet Democratic policies and tactics will bring it about.
Good point, Salvation. Maybe memory is the problem.
Yet Senator Kennedy couldn't possibly forget his own Kennedy clan's battles against discrimination beginning with the harsh discrimination against his Father, Joseph Kennedy for illegally importing liquor. Poor Mr. Kennedy.
Then there was the stressful case of Ted's older brother John who didn't stand a chance of being elected President because he would have been the first Catholic President. Poor JFK.
Thank you for posting the interesting quote from President Lincoln.
You’re welcome. However, he wasn’t the president at the time. :)
The sentiment was expressed in a private letter, which I think in some ways makes it more revealing than a political speech.
Oddly enough, it is very difficult to come up with evidence that the Irish ever demonstrated a talent for politics in Ireland. Quite the opposite.
Aha, even better. And a history lesson to boot. Thank you. :-)
No Irish Need Apply. Fact or Myth?
For an alternative perspective see http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/no-irish.htm
I just noticed the date of the quote. Where did you find the quote?
Anybody have a clue what Mr. Maguire is talking about here?
Every office in the land except President was left open to immigrants. That doesn't sound like "insane jealousy" to me.
http://home.att.net/~howingtons/abe.html
Many Lincoln quotes. The man had a definite gift for the felicitous phrase.
“An Éirinneach nó Sassanach tú?”
The Irish national consciousness has long seen itself as oppressed by its English colonizer and despite differences between the types of oppression in other colonies, Ireland will always maintain a history that includes the story of British oppression. Ireland’s politics, from the Act of Union, through de Valera’s economic war, has centred around the Irish-English relationship that had until 1922 been voiced in Westminster.
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/halloran1.html
Big City Irish Mayors
“Blind Boss” Buckley of San Francisco
Edward R. Butler of St. Louis
James Michael Curley of Boston
Richard J. Daley of Chicago
Richard M. Daley of Chicago
William Flinn of Pittsburgh
Roy Vincent Harris of Augusta, Georgia
Robert E. McKisson of Cleveland
Pete McDonough San Francisco
William Tweed of New York City
Ronald Reagan of California
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