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The Daily Dispatch: February 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], Who are Americans? (search)
ty thousand Irish and Germans, whilst not a few even of the officers are men of foreign birth. For such a conglomeration as this to monopolize the name of American, is the most barefaced piece of impudence and dishonesty which that shameless pack has ever exhibited. When, a few years ago, the Thames was gorged and almost driven from its bed by the sewerage of London, it was about as near the once pure and classic river of a former age as that which is now called America is to the America of 1776. In other and even more important respects, the United States have no longer a claim to the name of America; still less to the monopoly of that name. What liberty won by our fathers; what right, franchise, or prerogative of freemen is now left that unhappy people? They have shivered to atoms the Union which gave America all its glory; they have trampled the Constitution, which was the bond and life of that Union, in a perfect tempest of passion under their feet, and dansed upon its tor