Chris Rodda that is. Doing what she does best. See
here. A taste:
The
problem with Barton’s so-called Jefferson quote? Well, Jefferson wasn’t
talking about immigrants. He wasn’t even talking about ships coming to
America from other countries. He was talking about the exact opposite —
ships that were sailing from America to Europe!
The
quote that Barton butchers so completely to make it say the exact
opposite of what Jefferson was actually talking about comes from
Jefferson’s 1805 message to Congress (what we today call the State of
the Union address).
At
the time there was an intense fear of yellow fever in Europe, with
recent yellow fever epidemics, particularly devastating in Spain, having
killed thousands of people. The obsessive fear of the disease among
Europeans, which was causing ships sailing into European ports to be
quarantined and their crews and passengers to be subjected to absurd
medical tests, was described by Washington Irving in his Notes and journal of travel in Europe, 1804-1805, in which he recounted what he experienced upon his arrival at the Sicilian port of Messina in early 1805:
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