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" There are citizens of the United States, I blush to admit, born under other flags, but welcomed under our generous naturalization laws to the full freedom and opportunity of America, who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 199
1916
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Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression ...

Benjamin Heber Johnson - 2003 - 268 pages
...born under other flags but welcomed under our generous naturalization laws," he told Congress in 1915, "who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life. . . . Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out [and] the hand of our...
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Over Here: The First World War and American Society

David M. Kennedy - 2004 - 452 pages
...in his third annual message, "born under other flags but welcomed under our generous naturalization laws to the full freedom and opportunity of America,...disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life. . . . Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out. . . . [T]he hand of our...
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Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the ...

Geoffrey R. Stone - 2004 - 758 pages
...Wilson furiously replied that "there are citizens of the United States, born under other flags, . . . who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life." He added that such "disloyalty . . . must be crushed" out of existence.8 work with tlie poor, was one...
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Sacco & Vanzetti

John Davis - 2004 - 134 pages
...of these raids were "aliens," described by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915 as "hyphenated Americans [who have] poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life..." This witch-hunt resulted in the arrest and deportation of around 800 "noncitizens" and suspected radicals,...
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Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism: Slovaks And Other New Imiigrants

June Granatir Alexander, June Alexander - 2008 - 296 pages
...well on the exam. In December 1915, alleging that some citizens "born under other flags" were pouring the "poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life," he urged Congress to enact repressive legislation.4 His call both reflected the contemporary temper...
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

John M. Barry - 2005 - 580 pages
...war, Wilson had warned Congress, "There are citizens of the United States, I blush to admit, . . . who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life. . . . Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out." His fire informed virtually...
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Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners & World War I

Carl R. Weinberg - 2005 - 284 pages
...his annual message to Congress of that year, President Wilson lashed out against naturalized citizens who "have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life." To combat the alleged threat, the president requested that Congress enact appropriate legislation "at...
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Lucky Dog

John S. Friedman - 2005 - 964 pages
...Princeton history professor declared in his 1915 State of the Union message that recent immigrants had "poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life," and he urged Congress to "save the honor and self respect of the nation. Such creatures of passion,...
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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 16

United States. President - 1917 - 566 pages
...the President to advise to whom he referred when he said certain citizens born under other flags "had poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life" and had been guilty of attempts to destroy American industry. (Page 8114.) The President's reply, made...
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Critical Lessons: What our Schools Should Teach

Nel Noddings - 2006 - 17 pages
...of the US, I blush to admit, born under other flags but welcomed under our generous naturalization laws to the full freedom and opportunity of America,...disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life. . . . Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out. . . . The hand of our...
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