In Senator Ellison DuRant Smith of South Carolina’s speech, A Congressional Address, he is predominantly trying to persuade the other senators to “shut the door” to immigration as he refers to their breed as “the breed of a dog” and describes them as “dumb, driven cattle” yet the irony behind all this nonsense is that America was born by immigrants and to this day is still mostly ran by immigrants. Senator Smith approaches immigration in a negative way as he states,”...regard to the salvation of our own, let us shut the door and assimilate what we have…” Despite his anti-immigration policy Americans still found a way to fight through that barrier and be able to build up to what we are today. Through the founding fathers, anglo-saxon’s gained
