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and the cultural blessings of "diversity." Yet colonial Americans
thought economic considerations unimportant or irrelevant,
ethnic diversity undesirable, and religious orthodoxy essential,
while the separate colonial authorities sought to bar immoral
and mentally defective immigrants from their colonies. Owing to
the efforts of colonial legislatures entrusted by Parliament with
matters of immigration and naturalization, all thirteen American
colonies succeeded in preserving their particular individuality
while creating a collective demographic entity that by the time
of the Revolution was recognizable as the American people.
Thomas Paine's desire, expressed in his pamphlet Common
Sense, that America should become "an amalgam of the people
of the world," was a minority opinion among Americans of the
time, for whom the Declaration of Independence was precisely
that-and not a statement of universalist principles in the sense
in which modern liberals choose to read that document.
"Providence," John Jay wrote in The Federalist No. 2, "has been
pleased to give us this one connected country to one united
people-a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to
the same principles of government, very similar in manners and
customs." In 1751 Benjamin Franklin spoke against the influence
of "Palatine Boors" who were reshaping English culture in Pennsylvania. In Notes on the State of Virginia (1782), Thomas Jefferson
wrote that arrivals from monarchical countries would "bring with
them the principles of the governments they leave, or if able to
throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as usual, from one extreme to the other."
George Washington wrote in 1794 to John Adams that "my
opinion with respect to immigration is, that except for useful
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