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The American Spirit in the Writings of Americans of Foreign Birth · Robert Elihu Stauffer — chapter 3 of 29 · ~153 words · public domain

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EDWIN LAWRENCE GODKIN 44

An Immigrant’s Faith in Democracy 45

JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY 52

“The Exile of the Gael” 52

“The Pilgrim Fathers” 54

“Liberty Lighting the World” 55

“America” 57

HANS MATTSON 58

Scandinavian Contribution to American Nationality 59

JACOB RIIS 61

“A Young Man’s Hero”: An Immigrant’s Tribute to Roosevelt 63

JACOB VAN DER ZEE 66

“Why Dutch Emigrants Turned to America” 67

EDWARD BOK 71

OSCAR SOLOMON STRAUS 72

“America and the Spirit of American Judaism” 73

FELIX ADLER 77

The American Ideal 78

MARY ANTIN 82

An Immigrant’s Tribute to the Public School and to George Washington 83

“The Law of the Fathers”: A View of the Declaration of Independence 89

ABRAHAM MITRIE RIHBANY 91

America Offers Something Better than Money 92

An Immigrant Tells his Struggles with the English Language 94

EDWARD ALFRED STEINER 96

“The Criminal Immigrant” 97

Industrialism and the Immigrant 105

GEORGE A. GORDON 111

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