A boy who had memorized Schauffler's poem stood off stage and recited it, while group after group of "immigrants" in the motley of the steerage passed slowly through the improvised Ellis Island sifting process.

But, Phil Khamis, everybody's friend, standing there, an immigrant of the immigrants, smiling his wistful friendly smile, was a picture as dramatic as it was unexpected.

"We want immigrants in our countryGermans or any other good, strong, virile nationality.

With respect to the exclusion of immigrants, it is a principle of international law that every country may admit only those whom it chooses.

"[A] Until recently immigrants to this country were "bought" in great numbers.

It is really quite idle to dream of a warless world in which States are still absolutely free to annoy one another with tariffs, with the blocking and squeezing of trade routes, with the ill-treatment of immigrants and travelling strangers, and between which there is no means of settling boundary disputes.

Here, all immigrants may, by following out to the terminus of the penetrating railways, find cheap and good lands awaiting them, and where just as beautiful homes may be made as in that portion nearer the rivernow teeming with life and industriesbut which, a few brief years since, was as desolate and untenanted as are the unbroken prairies to the westward.

It was not the armed frontier levies, it was the immigrants coming in by pack train or by flat boat,it was the unsuspecting settlers with their wives and little ones who had most to fear from an Indian fray; while, when once the blow was delivered, the savages vanished as smoke vanishes in the open.

The roving war bands infested the two routes by which the immigrants came into the country; for the companies of immigrants could usually be taken at a disadvantage, and yielded valuable plunder.

In 1784 a family of "poor white" immigrants who had just settled in Kentucky were attacked in the daytime, while in the immediate neighborhood of their squalid cabin.

Logan paid especial heed to the protection of the immigrants who came in over the Wilderness Road.

In October a party of immigrants, led by a man named McClure, who had just come over the Wilderness trace, were set upon at dawn by Indians, not far from Whitley's house; two of the men were killed.

Ten days after this another party of immigrants, led by a man named Moore, were attacked on the Wilderness Road and nine persons killed.

In San Juan the garrison was kept on half pay, provisions were scarce, and the influx of immigrants from la Española, where a bloody civil war raged at the time, increased the consumption and the price.

Puerto Rico had the reputation of being very poor, consequently, no immigrants were attracted by the prospect of money-making.

The royal schedule of August 13, 1815, called "the schedule of graces," also contributed to the general improvement by the opening of the ports to immigrants, though short-sighted restrictions destroyed the beneficent effects of the measure to no small extent.

However, immigrants came, and among them 83 practical agriculturists from Louisiana, with slaves and capital.

This law bore very harshly on the Republicans, because most of the immigrants were Republicans.

Other laws, called the Alien Acts, were also aimed at the Republican immigrants.

These laws gave the President power to compel immigrants to leave the United States, or to live in certain places that he named.

Among the recent immigrants to the United States was Samuel Slater.

Soon immigrants from the United States settled in the northeastern part of the new republic.

By the end of that year there were eighty thousand immigrants in California.

Of these nearly five millions were white immigrants.

More than half of these immigrants had come in the last ten years, and they had practically all of them settled in the free states of the North.