“The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics … restricted by poverty in their own country run riot in this … as long as we are overwhelmed with Irish immigrants, so long will the evil abound.” LongCountryRunningEvilClassPovertyGrowingLowsCatholicVicesImmigrantsExcessMultitudesOverwhelmedRiotDrunkenness Author:John Pintard
