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Browning of the NC foothills 140

Dallas except work were heart. need

Which reminds me of the marooned lifeboat full of starving pbuttengers you can read about in Judge O. W. Holmes's The Common Law. They end and ate a teenager and when the matter came to court the judge found a way to exonerate the perpetrators.

The point is that there is just so much land, just so many resources on this continent. As for the Irish, my ancestors, who immigrated to the continent over a hundred years ago, they were indeed starving from crop failure and hundreds of years of abuse by the good xians of Britain. Because of the ruthless economic philosophy of Thomas Malthus, embraced by the good xians of England, the corruptions of the coinage of Ireland, Irish boys fighting Brit wars, overburdensome taxation, and inability to own their own land and living in cruel tenancy, many of the lean and bony Irish fled and died in steerage on the way over, and many died where they lived. Many were cruelly mistreated here on this continent, although there was adequate food, jobs for them, and plenty of tillable land. My forefathers received grants of 160 acres apiece in Virginia and North Carolina and began farming their plots. They soon learned, though, that they had to arm and protect themselves and THAT they did. My people proudly made good corn whisky in McDowell County. My grandfather lost his land, the entire side of a fertile mountain with creeks and valleys, because he gave credit at a grocery store when he should have sold in cash only.

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H. Reader Yes, rube - far, far more than you do. Oh, no they aren't. They also work hard...

I have never heard of any starving Mexicans, except those found in dead piles in steaming hot vans owned by corrupt mobsters, for which they paid large sums to violate our immigration laws. Remember, the Irish came as LEGAL immigrants.

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Maniack No, what he said was, "there were essentially no laws on the books about immigration". Federal Immigration Laws between 1790-1819 The Naturalization...
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Apparently not. I've this year seen LA, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, Albequerque, Denver, and have read about Chicago, Atlanta, and elsewhere. With my own eyes...

Don't be making false comparisons and deceptive generalizations.



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