In the excerpt below, Franklin expresses his concern about the influx of newcomers to North America in the eighteenth century.
Click on the excerpts below where Franklin gives his specific objections to the increase of Germans coming to Pennsylvania.
"and by herding together establish their language and manners to the exclusion of ours?"
"who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion?"
"why should we ... darken its people?"
