Immigrants Do Not Endanger America Summary

Many years after the Civil War the United States encountered a large rush of immigrants from Europe. Nativism became an important political force that devoted to the idea that immigrants threatened the economic and political security of the "native" Americans. In 1844, an anti-immigrant organization was created to adopt a platform that represents the threats they believe immigrants posed to America. "Immigrants Endanger America (1845) by the Native American Party is a viewpoint from the anti-immigrant organization's platform. Americans believed their gratuitous privileges to the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is unnecessary to the inalienable rights of man. These privileges were wisely reserved to the Natives of the soil by the governments of all the other civilized nations. The influx of the foreign population permitted them to participate in the legislature of the country, meaning they were able to vote. Many German Americans were Catholics, another target of the know nothings, who claimed that the pope was conspiring to get political control in the United States. …show more content…
Nichols is a delivered lecture in support of the U.S. Immigration. In this lecture Nichols criticizes the arguments made by the nativist movement against immigrants. Nichols argues the first settlers of this continent had the same rights and reasons to emigrate. Many came to improve their conditions, enjoy freedom and to escape from oppression. The mixture of races is believed to be an important influence in the human race to improve the highest perfections in blood and qualities of many races. Wealth is also a great factor to their emigration due to laws of trade, inheritance, European loans and their everyday productive