[Foreign-Born Citizens to Vote as Bloc]
Illinois Staats-Zeitung, 1873
The foreign born citizens speak excitedly about the baiting started against them. Germans, Irish, Scandinavians consider it a duty of self-preservation to invite at the next election, regardless of party, and to show the nativist fanatics who the true inhabitants of Chicago are, either the 300 corn swindlers, twenty eight insurance firms and seventy three wholesale houses, or the 100,000 diligent workers and business men. The idea of union at the next election is gaining ground in a most rapid and pleasant way.
