Gleason Philip Trouble in the Colonial Melting Pot Journal of American Ethnic History 2000 20 1 3 17 Issn 0278 5927 Fulltext online in Ingenta and Ebsco Considers the political consequences of the remarks in a 1751 pamphlet by Franklin on demographic growth and its implications for the colonies He called the Pennsylvania Germans Palatine Boors who could never acquire the Complexion of the English settlers and to Blacks and Tawneys as weakening the social structure of the colonies