The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, t… - Henry Ward Beecher

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The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion. So the immigrants of all races and nations become Americans, and it is a disgrace to our institutions and a shame to our policy to abuse them or drive them away.