View Towards Irish Immigrants
Hale supported Irish immigration, as he felt it freed Americans from performing menial, hard labor. In a series of letters in the Boston Daily Advertiser, he noted the "inferiority" of the immigrants: "...compels them to go the bottom; and the consequence is that we are, all of us, the higher lifted."
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