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IS 312.2
Story of an Emigrant.
them, nor are there anv anarchists or revolutionists. They
come here to build homes for themselves and their children ;
they are contented and grateful for the privileges of
American citizenship, and make themselves worthy of it by
pushing into the front rank in the onward march of education,
philanthropy and religion, as well as in material progress.
One illustration, among many that might be given," is
found in the report of a late conference of the Swedish
Lutheran Church, from which it appears that they have
now in Minnesota alone two hundred and forty-five
parishes, \vith one hundred and seventy-nine churches, valued at
over six hundred thousand dollars, and all paid for. The
Norwegian Lutheran Church would undoubtedly show ecpial
if not better results, though I cannot give the exact figures.
It is a great mistake which some make, to think that it
is only for their brawn and muscle that the Northmen have
become a valuable acquisition to the American population ;
011 the contrary, they have done and are doing as much as
any other nationality within the domain of mind and heart.
Not to speak of the early discovery of America by the
Scandinavians four hundred years before the time of Columbus,
they can look back with proud satisfaction 011 the part
they have taken in all respects to make this great republic
what it is to-day.
The early Swedish colonists in Delaware, Pennsylvania
and New Jersey worked as hard for liberty and independence
as the English did in New England and in the South. There
were 110 tories among them, and when the continental
congress stood wavering equal in the balance for and against
the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, it was a
Swede, John Morton (Mortenson), of the old Delaware
stock, who gave the casting vote of Pennsylvania in favor
of the sacred document.
When nearly a century later the great rebellion burst up-
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