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Closely allied to it, though distinct from it, was the anti-Romanist feeling which had always been entertained by a considerable num ber, who believed the teaching of the Church of Rome to be inimical to the safety and welfare of republican institu tions. Lafayette, himself a Romanist, and who had fought for the independence of the American Colonies, did not give utterance to an opinion peculiar to himself alone, when he declared that, " if the liberties of the American people are ever destroye...d, they will fall by the hands of the Romish clergy. " The fact that the great majority of immigrants hailed from papist countries and professed the Romanist faith, resulted in a fusing, as it were, of the nativists and anti-papal sentiment, so that, after the decade 165 166 THE LIFE OF HENRY A. WISE of the thirties at least, the two ideas may be treated as practically inseparable. The new immigrants settled for the most part in the cities, and hence in New York, Phil adelphia, and the various towns occurred the riots, dur ing the period of the thirties and forties, growing out of the animosities which a variety of causes had con tributed to engender between native and foreign-born citizens.
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