Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

by Jennifer Wright

Later on in the piece, he wondered, “How long is it, Mr. Know-Nothing, since your father came to this country?… He may have been the oldest inhabitant or he may have been the newest, but as he followed after the Indians, he was himself a foreigner. And pray, friend, what right have you, a foreigner’s descendent, to persecute those who, like him, choose to settle among us? You ought to be ashamed of yourself!”