Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States Through Foreign Immigration and the Present State of the Naturalization Laws by Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse 1835 Excerpts from Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States (1835). At the time, Samuel Morse was a well known painter and a prominent anti-Catholic writer. He would later go on to help invent the telegraph and the Morse Code. He also ran for mayor of New York City as a nativist, but lost badly. [W]e well know what is the nature of Roman Catholic ecclesiastical rule, — it is the double refined spirit of despotism,…