The native American., 1837-08-19

Americana, transl alton and enlargement Of the Ger
man Conversations Lexicon, edited by foreigner
States that from thirty-ve to FIVE hundred thousand
emgrants arrive in this country, meaning the Canadas
and the United States, every year. But few of them,
is well known, stay in Canada they prefer our gov
ernment to the colonial This statement is corrobo-
rated by the London Encyclopedia, which urges the
British government TO send ont million of emigrans
year, until proper depletion is made of the swollen
body of population, and reckons up the cost making
it five pounds sterling head which is double the
amount they pay for landing the sweepings Of their
alms-houses and ja'is at the present time. They
pay about five dollars head for passage money, and
their provisions cost about ten dollars each. sf
| From well written memorial, directed to the Mayor
and Aldermen of the City of New York. by "the gen
eral committee of the Native Americans,s make
short extract. This paper did not reach me until after
/ had written my own observations upon the subject
am happy to think that differ but little in our sta
tstics, as well as in our reasonings:
During the last seven years, [says the memorial,
296, ,259 foreigners have arrived at this port New
York alone; equal in as0ount to the present popuIa-
ton Of the whole city. Sixty thousand five hundred
and ffty-one arrived in the year 1886: double the
amount that came in $780, Four thousand nine hun
dred and wenty-eight arrived here between the 9th
and 18th OF the present month of June, 1897.
on the ist OF January, 1887, 982 foreigners, and
III native American citizens, had been admitted to
the hospital at Bellevue the preceding year. On the
st of May last, there were in the alms-house 437
paupers allowing the portion of foreigners
the hospital and there would be LOGS foreigners and
1863 native citizens in the alms-house. .;-aoas
4" u appears from the report Of committee, month
ly appointed by the Board of Aldermen Of this city,
that there are, at the date of this report sore paupers
IN the alms-house, than three-fourths of whom
are foreigners. How many more of this class live
upon private charities, let the swarm of mendicants
who daily and nightly infest our streets attest.
Sat recent date, appears that the number Of con
victs confined at Sing Sing were SOO Of whom 6O3
were foreigners.
"ln the year ending in August, 1886, there were 70
ceIved into the Boston House of Refuge S66 paupers
sic of whom were foreigners From the Ist of Janu-
ary TO April 25, 1887, there were 264 paupers admit
ted to the same House Of Refuge, 60 of whom were
aliens.
in the official departments of the General, State,
ana City Governments, the same proportion exists.
At an election Of town officers held in Paterson lit
tie more than year since, out Of thirty-nine public
officers elected, thirty ythree were naturazed citizens
1t is believed that, up this date. the majority Of Off
in this city were held by those who are of foreign
birth. $lsH sE&& 4a3 t
There are, tits stated upon good authority no less
than sixty foreigners holding high and respectable Off
ces In the departments at Washington, and on mis-
sions abroad. There six in the State two in the
Patent office, tweny-one in the Treasury, six in the
ar, three in the Navy, and four in the Post Office
departments. s,.e a }i
~ must be borne in mind, that those foreigners
only who arrive in vessels cf forty tons burthen and
upwards are ragstered, and taken into the account
4
who come IN vessels of less size, and by the way OF
the Canadas. It is confidently believed that the whole
numbers OF foreign emgants who have arrived in this
i city since 1880, amount to more than 500, ,OOO.''
Thirty years ago there were not ore than one out
of forty among inhabitants in the United States
born out Of the country; now there is in twenty,
taking every portion of the United Staes the new set.
Elements are full of them This increase is alarming
in every way not fearful Of the Catholics as
some persons are. believe that there are excellent
men OF that religions but this have the best evidence
Of that, from newspaper accounts of the increase
ofthat religion in this country thaMexican in the ser
vice of General Santa Anna, visited this country be-
fore ne joined the army IN pFexas in the hopes of max
ing some arrangements with the Catholics, in order
bring the power OF Santa Anna to bear in the United
States; and although in every other respect man
good sense when the feasibility of his plan was ques
tioned rather laughed at shook his head and said
perhaps the time has not come." He believed in the
Catholic religion, although descendant of an Inca
10 do the Catholics of New York justice. do not be-
lIeve that any one Of them, having any standing in
society, listened to him for minute.
Il this increase OF emigration should continue fol
half century, the native born citizens, descendants
OF those who achieved our liberties, would in fact
i in the minority. The dominant party would saw tc
them, your fathers made us co-heirs with you, and
upon the principles of your majority system we
are your masters. We not answerabe for the folly
Your ancestors; we only glory in the sagacity and
perseverance of those emgrants who gave by mum
i
! The most distressing sight that ever blasted the
eyes of cld, is to behold the mansion of his
tors and the place of his birth, in the possession Of
those who first under the hospitabe roof for pro-
lection and aid Are we not in fair way to witness
this ourselves? and if this does not happen in our
time, will not children the sad day Of our pre-.
sent forebodingse
i 1t may be said, that have wilds enough yet for
unlimited cultivation. This is only true now,
tain exent lands growing DEAR and every year the
difficulties of making settlement with only industry,
without capital, are becoming multiplied. few
lyears SINCE the of rearing family within
the reach Of every one, but it is not and
in short time will be almost impossible, unless one
Inherits property When this time arrives distinctions
in society, which Aucuating will become sta
tonary and the republican habits much przed will
be altogether lost The resources of every nation
be carefully husbanded, they will be soon exhausted.
Onr lands, under the culture of foreigners, will yield
but little more than half much as under our own
husbandry. Heath, in his picturesque views of Ire
land speaks of the wretched husbandry among the
peasants in that country, and declares, that the poatoe
has to struggle in the smallest well as the largest
patches with the rank weed, the grower being too in
doent to destroy it. The agriculture of the Germans,
more industrious and thrifty race, has particle Of
modern science or skill init; and the English, if thew