Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...graduates who have become prominent in public life, and finds that it includes two signers of the Declaration of Independence, twenty-seven delegates to the Continental Congress, one President (Madison), two Vice-Presidents and five nominated as candidates, seventeen Cabinet officers, one chief-justice, five associate justices, seventeen foreign ministers, fifty-one Senators and 115 Representatives. besides two speakers of the House...
...government by saying, "allowance must be made for the political situation.- Ibid; (c) It impugns the motives of the senate in the rejection of the treaty, by saying that the Canadian question was reopened by the republican majority in the senate.- Ibid; (d) It is a case of foreign interference in American politics; (e) The above offences were aggravated by the newspaper interview.- N. Y. Tribune...
...action of the administration was justifiable. (a) Criticism of the action of our government in international affairs by a minister to this country is not permissible.- Jackson case, in Foreign Relations of U. S., Vol. III, p. 299. (b) Imputations on the honor of a country by a minister accredited to that country are inconsistent with international comity.- Poussin case in National Intelligence of Sept. 22, 1849. (c) Foreign interference between a people and its government is not to be tolerated.- Genet case in Hildereth's U. S., IV, 415. (d) All ministers accredited to a country must be persona...
...Immigrants are a menace to our national institutions, (a) By foreign speech and customs.- J. D. Strong, "Our Country," p. 44. (b) By grouping in isolated bodies. (c) Immigrants are represented by demagogues...
...Immigration is injurious to the moral condition of the United States. (a) Our work hourses and prisons are filled by those of foreign extraction.- N. Am. Rev., Jan., 1884. (b) They form the liquor power.- J. D. Strong, "Our Country," p. 42; Compendium of the tenth Census...