The native American., 1838-03-17

SIATISIISs or orrof1MT OF THE INVASION DU
RING THE LAST NINE YEARS
Nh Ep,roR: | draw your attention, and that
of the public, to the following startling details IN
relation TO the influx of foreign emigralion; ana
whilst emphatically insisting upon the importance
,nJ truth of the facts, cannot but regret that time
does not permit me to hunt up more information
on the subject.
,There arrived at New York in 1929, 1904;
1890. 80. .224; 1881, .379; 1882, 4S.589; 1888,
II .072; 1894, 4s.l10; 1895, 35.3O3; 1886, Co.
54l; and 1897, from January lst to July 27th'
34.554; making a sum total of 325.7S6.
The number of passengers who arrived In the
limited States during the year 1896, as stated in
the New York Commercial Advertiser, is So
e52.-of these, 4.Ol3 were born in the United
States; At 1872 in Great Britain and Ireland; 2.6Sl
in the British American Colonies; 2O.l42 in
Germany: 4 .443 in France; 56S in Prussia; 445
in Switzerland; Ala in Denmark; 29S in Holland;
1877 in Mexico; 69s in Texas; SIG in Cuba; l52
in other countries Of the above, there were
landed at New York 56.57S; Baltimore 6.O58;
New Orleans 1866; Boston 900; Philadelphia
2.l47; Portland 1921; Passamaquoddy l.47l;-
all other ports l.4O3.
The number of paupers in Boston and Phila-
delphia in 1886, was follOws:-Boston, Ame-
ricans 597; foreigners, 673; total, l.27O. Phila-
delphia, Americans, l.5l7; foreigners, l.266;-
total, 2.7S1.
The Report Of the Board of Aldermen of the
CITY of New York, dated June 18th, 1887, states
that there were then in the Alms-house, Hospital
and Long Island Farms, 2.453 persons; Of whom
s7l were children, chiefly Americans; in the
Hospital 2Sl-l99 foreigners-the whole num-
Der under charge Of the Commissioners of the
Alms-house 3.O74; Of whom three-fourths were
foreigners That during the year 1886, there
had arrived at that port 66.54l passengers; and
that this year C37) the arrivals would average
1000 weekly; that out Of 1900 persons admitted
into the Alms-house at Belleview, 982 were ali
ems; and that for the preceding year, the expenses
of the Alms-house were $205.5O6 50.
The Mayor of New York, in communication
to the Common Council, states that ''nearly .0OC
(emigrants arrive each week, and it is not likely
many months will elapse before the number PEI
week will be 5000. Our streets filled will
the wandering crowds Of these passengers, clust
ering in our city, unaccustomed to our climate
without money, without employment, withou
friends!-many not speaking our language, anc
without any dependence for food, or raiment, OF
fire-side. What is to become Of them? is ques
ton of serious import. Our whole Alms-houst
department is SO full that no more can be received
there without manifest hazard to the health o
every inmate. Petitions signed by hundreds
asking for work, are presented in vain. Private
associations for relief almost wholly withou
funds Thousands must therefore wander to and
fro, filling every part of once happy land with
squalid poverty and prohigacy.'
With such facts to urge us on in our career
with such glowing but true picture 10 move our
compassion and indignation-is it surprising,
ask that Natives are found banded together for the
object of checking that foul inroad of foreign
poverty and profigacy, which, if not checked III
time, will taint and corrupt and our institutions
Sir, we would be false to the memory ofour great
fathers-to the sacred legacy bequeathed us-to
the duty which we owe our country, ourselves,
and our children, if we did not exert every nerve,
within the circle of the law, to drive the filthy
current from our shores, and the land from
the evils of taxation for the support of the alien
pauper and felon.
BOSTON.