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They are beaten men from beaten races; representing the worst failures in the struggle for existence. Centuries are against them, as centuries were on the side of those who formerly came to us. Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, And through them presses a wild motley throng. Flying the Old World's poverty and scorn; These bringing with them unknown gods and rites, Those, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws. In street and alley what strange tongues loud, Accents of menace alien to our air, Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew!

Not all of the voices coming out of Boston opposed immigration. In , Congressman John F. Fitzgerald gave a rousing, hour-long July Fourth address at historic Faneuil Hall. The Brahmins could see their power and influence waning. Boston had long ago ceded its dominance in trade to New York, with the hub of culture and communications to follow.

Francis Walker noted:. For myself, strongly as I feel the evils of the existing situation [immigration], I have little hope of their early correction by law. On one or two occasions, when I have been called to speak in public upon this theme, I have seen how much more taking is the appeal to sentiment than the address to reason, in this matter; how great is the controversial advantage of him who speaks in favor of the complete freedom of entrance which has characterized our career thus far; how strong is the instinctive dislike of an American audience for any schemes of restriction or exclusion in the face of the clearest considerations of expediency and even of national safety.

Warren was descended from a famous colonial Boston family. Warren and Hall were lawyers, and Ward was beginning his career as a professor of climatology at Harvard. Members of the IRL were driven by a fear that American democracy, founded by Anglo-Saxon settlers using Anglo-Saxon law and government, could perish under the avalanche of exotic immigrants. The IRL raised specific questions about American society and democracy. Hall, who would be the driving force behind the IRL for over twenty-five years, looked more like an earnest country parson than a fire-breathing activist.

She raised her son in a protective cocoon. The deep depressions from which Hall suffered were not unusual for his era and social class.

By the late s, Boston Brahmin society was in decline. An increase in divorces and suicides and a decrease in birthrates among native-born Protestants—especially when compared with large Irish Catholic families—only added to the sense of loss and pessimism. The new immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe provided the double whammy to the Brahmin psyche, reinforcing whatever gloom and insecurity was caused by their loss of control to the Irish. Francis Walker provided the intellectual explanation for this phenomenon, blaming immigrants and the supposed degrading conditions they brought to America for the declining Protestant birthrates.

Prescott Hall picked up the idea as just one rationale for immigration restriction. Hall and his wife were childless. At the dawn of the twentieth century, old-stock Americans saw grave national consequences in the declining birthrates among native-born white women and a seeming softening of the dwindling Anglo-Saxon stock, as exhibited by a prevalence of neurasthenics.

He warned:. If we stand idly by, if we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then the bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world. The words were as pertinent to a nation beginning to enlarge its role in the world as it was a warning to Anglo-Saxons who risked being overtaken by more vigorous immigrant groups.

Prescott Hall embodied a different form of the strenuous life. Through ill health and melancholy, Hall fought with his pen, badgering public officials and newspapermen, ever relentless in seeking to restrict immigration from undesirable groups. Rather than completely retreating into gloom or going into exile, he remained to fight his imperfect fight.

But, as the years went by, history steadily drifted away from him. He grew increasingly bitter as his ideas lost whatever sliver of youthful sympathy they once had for the American ideal of immigration. Many 19th century Beormingas, or Brummies as they became known, emigrated to the US and helped form the city of Birmingham, Alabama.

The city was founded in during the post-Civil War Reconstruction period and became an industrial centre with a focus on mining.

A tree planted by, or named after Cofa may have marked the centre or the boundary of his Anglo-Saxon settlement. This evolved into Wessyngton after the Norman Conquest and became the home of William de Wessyngton, the medieval ancestor of George Washington, the first President of the United States.

Snot, unfortunately named to modern ears, was a Saxon chieftain who brought his people together in their homestead of Snotingaham. It is now the East Midlands city of Nottingham, famed for its medieval links to the legend of Robin Hood. Beda, a Saxon chief, settled with his followers in eastern England at a point where the River Great Ouse was shallow and fordable. Bedford, Massachusetts was first settled by Europeans in the s and was incorporated as a town in As the modern town of Reading, Berkshire, it remains in a prime commercial location, just 24 miles south of Oxford and 36 miles west of central London.

Although not a chieftain, Botwulf was a popular 7th century Anglo-Saxon missionary and saint. Boston, Lincolnshire was the birthplace of several prominent emigrants to New England, who gave its name to Boston, Massachusetts in Our copper business in Chile has made history by commissioning the first green hydrogen station for carbon zero Learn more About us. Our metals are the essential ingredients in smartphones, electric cars and wind turbines; our basic materials build homes, railways and airports; and our diamonds fulfil your dreams.

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