Sweet Silly Spunky Sadie
We need to build Bridges ... Not Walls! Let me remind you ... This is a Nation built on emigrants, immigrants and a safe place for refugees fleeing their countries from religious persecution. Have you forgotten our history and where your ancestors came from?
Our Mayflower emigrants were fleeing religious persecution in Europe, and the Founding Fathers resolved that no state religion would be established in this country. The Constitution protects all of us, including those who are in the minority.
Colonial records of the State show that a colony of Moors started for this country the same as did the Pilgrim Fathers, Huguenots and other emigrants to escape religious persecution - in this case, it being during the Spanish Inquisition.
In August, 1774, a small band of emigrants fleeing from religious persecution in England landed in New York from Liverpool. Ann Lee, a woman 38 years of age, was the centre of the group and soon after their arrival organized several societies which espoused a creed which she claimed was evolved from a series of visions witnessed by her when in prison in 1770, she having been confined for violating the sanctity of the Sabbath. These societies were the beginning of an organization which still exists under the name of "The Shakers" in 1883. This appellation was applied to them because of the trembling with which they were seized while under the influence of the shades of the other work. The original name was the "United Society of Believers." The society of Shakers was confined entirely to the United States. There were seventeen branches or families, as they were termed, in various parts of the country, four of them being located in Ohio - one at Union Village, in Warren county; another at Watervliet, near Dayton; and the third at Whitewater, Hamilton county, and the fourth at North Union, Cuyahoga county.
Hungarian emigrants also fled religious persecution.
The people from Germany and Austria (NW Okie's HURT ancestors homeland) were animated by political convictions; they wanted freedom which was impossible under the monarchial government of those countries in the middle of 19th century. The Baltic emigrants were fleeing from religious persecution, also.
Economic necessity was also one of the reasons for Jewish immigration. People decided to come to America for a combination of economic pressure, religious persecution and political repression, at home.
The policy of "Know Nothingism" of past political parties, assumed to act to justify the most atrocious forms of religious persecution. Are we heading back to that "Know Nothingism?" Is that where you want to go?
America, the emigrant of past and present has proven that they prefer our country to every other! To proscribe (forbid) him on account of his birthplace is as mean and cowardly as to proscribe him for his religious faith or the color of his skin. It is the rankest injustice, the most downright inhumanity.
We need to build bridges ... Not walls!
Call US Congress (202)225-3121 and let your Senate and Representatives know how you feel. ~ Build Bridges ... Not Walls! ~ Good Night! Good Luck!
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