Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-09-05

de-
ged
been Iu. all
our proofs -o.n official
and statistic ".tne absolute ac-
o,eIgners themselves, adj,
herring to that eANeIlent and important rule Of
evidence, which we have often laid down.
''that every man makes the best OF his own case"
The last upon the list of those foreign tour
lists, who have at sundry times rode post-hastc
through our country, and then spawned a book
about it, is the celebrated Captain Marryatt, Of
jacob Faithful, and "Carone," memory. who
as our readers may be aware, has lately bleS-
sed the world with his 'darY" of travels in
America We have had the pleasure Of read
ing very long article reviewing the gallant
captains work. in the National Gazette ofPhils
adel pha, in the course of which, numerous ex-
tracts from the work are given, and among 9th:
ers the foowing!--''lt is a strange fact, and
one which must have attracted the readers no.
tlce, that there should be p0or's rate in Amer:
lea" Upon this, the editor of the Gaz very
properly remarks, that 'the fact is not so gerry
strange" when we consider the vast amount Of
the article of 'paupers" England, ireland, and
Germany are so kind as to land annually upon
our shores;-and "tHe toaster of the murder
Drew" goes on to state himself the cause Of
our poor's rates. in this style:-"What cdrgoes
of crime, folly and reckleSSness do We THE En-
glsHl yearly ship off to America! America
ought to be very much Obliged to u.s. and the
Gazette observe upon this plain statement Of
the Enthusiastically we are obliged TO you,
the more particularly, as you are not content
with sending us your fel5ns, fools and pau;
pers but condemn us for Keeping them from
s'dfvatiot.n
How long will Americans submit to the in-
suit the shameful outrage which, it is here pro;
claimed by this foreigner, his country offers us2
Shall we forever be among the number those
who "haying eyes see rot, and having ears
hear not, the things that 80 nearly cohcerh
their temporal salvaton?" "Cargoes ofcrimey
folly and recklessness" are yearly shipped to
America, yet we not only tolerate this enor-
nous outrage upon our rights, but actually con-
fer the privileges of citizenship upon this inva-
ding army Of foreign felons and paupers, five
years after they are landed.
With what we'll merited contempt must the
of Europe regard US, how despica-
bly, stupid must we appear in their eyes, when
they see on one hand our naturalization laws;
and on the other, the "cargoes of crime, and
we import.
We have been IuIling ourselves hitherto id
imagined security, we have fooishy fattered
ourselves by reiterating the Giles" for i'll de-
serves no better name, that America is the asy-
lum orthe virtuous who flee from European tyr
amy; while European tyrants laugh at our.
not the virtuous, but their cast Off
paupers and criminals
We cannot conclude this article better
han by appending some remarks of tho
National Gazette, upon this foreigners adj
MISSIONS:
sin order to exemplify the, t'excess of intem-
perence in the UHited States, the author sober
ly informs us that from the first Of July 1888,
10 the lst of September 1888, there were DOM
mitted to the House of correction in Boston;
2346 indi, iduals, of which number there were
Ill3 common drunkards. Mos: unfortunately
for his argument against the morality Of this
Captain Marryatt then gives list Of
these delinquents, with the places of their birth
stated; and it appears from this table; that Of
the 2345 persons who were Committed to the
House of Correction, 100 were foreigners by
birth, or nearly one half the whole number;
leaving l245 Americans. Now the foreigners
in Massachusetts are to the native population;
In the ratio of about one to fifteen, so that for
the 1916 Americans, there should have been
only 70 foreigners instead of il00-or in the
ratio, for the 100 foreigners, there
should have been instead Of 1916 Americans,
the moderate number Of 1880. And even
with this proportion, the criminality the ma
tive population would only be proven eqldl ID
that ofthe imported stock. 1.-THE skillful cap
tain, when upon naval duty, had calculated his
latitude and longitude with the same degree Of
precision displayed in his estimates Of criminal
statistics in the United States 1T is highly prob;
able that he would have rested long since id
Davy Jones's locker.