Some things NEVER change..note the date of the newspaper:

Arrival of Emigrants.
The steamer Huron brought to this port on Thursday last nearly
one hundred emigrants a pretty satisfactory proof that the
bugbear of Know Nothingism has not yet produced the disastrous
results which have been predicted by old fogy politicans who are
always seeing "a nigger in the fence" when it is only a
reflection of their own ugly countenance reflected in the puddles
by the wayside.
Let the Emigrants come, there is room enough & to spare. Strong
hands & willing hearts are needed to hew down the forest trees
and "and make the wilderness blossom as the rose." Let them come
if they will and we will guarantee that they have no more cause
to dread the insiduous wiles of the Know Nothings than of any
other time serving political demagogues, whatever may be their
creed.
The Huron is on the Green Bay route, and the Superior has
commenced her regular trips to Lake Superior.
Manitowoc Tribune, Manitowoc, Wis. Thursday, May 1, 1856 P. 3

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Emma Lazarus, 1883

have been playing this game for over a century.

--imm