Not very odd when you recognize that the speech was given in 1886 by Chauncey Depew, a former Captain in the Revolutionary War, future Senator from NY, and lifelong lover of America.
The poem on the plaque (The New Colossus), however, was written by a jewish activist and advocate of indigent jewish immigrants named Emma Lazarus, and affixed to the base of the Statue of Liberty in 1903.
Fun fact - Emma's father Moses Lazarus began his career as a sugar merchant in the 1820s with properties in NY and the Louisiana territories. He mysteriously went out of business in 1865, reasons unknown.
Not very odd when you recognize that the speech was given in 1886 by Chauncey Depew, a former Captain in the Revolutionary War, future Senator from NY, and lifelong lover of America.
The poem on the plaque (The New Colossus), however, was written by a jewish activist and advocate of indigent jewish immigrants named Emma Lazarus, and affixed to the base of the Statue of Liberty in 1903.
Fun fact - Emma's father Moses Lazarus began his career as a sugar merchant in the 1820s with properties in NY and the Louisiana territories. He mysteriously went out of business in 1865, reasons unknown.