Original sentence: I could wish their Numbers were increased" However, by the late 1800s, though nativists continued to be suspicious of their culture and language, Germans along with Scandinavians and Dutch were included with the British and considered America's "old stock" (or in scientific racist terms, Teutonic or Nordic) and racially superior to the Irish and to the later immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe.In 1700s many persons of English dissent felt conflicted in regards to the ever-increasing number of German settlers.Many settle in the former dutch, then English colony of Pennsylvania.The first German-Americans arrived in the United States in 1683, seeking available land as well as religious freedom.The only exception were Germans of Saxon dissent "who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth.complained about the increaseing influx of German Americans, stating that they had a negative influence on the early United States
Edited sentence: Germans from the war-ravaged Palatinate immigrated in large numbers in the 1700s.However, by the late 1800s, though nativists continued to be suspicious of their culture and language, Germans along with Scandinavians and Dutch were included with the British and considered America's "old stock" (or in scientific racist terms, Teutonic or Nordic) and racially superior to the Irish and to the later immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe.I could wish their Numbers were increased.Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, 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... the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth.complained about them in terms of both culture and color:.why should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish their Language and Manners to the Exclusion of ours