The native American., 1839-06-08
EMIGRANTS.

EMIGRANTS.
The New York Correspondent of the "Nation-
al lntelligencer" states that 1876 persons have
arrived at that port from the lst April to the 3lst
May. This is about the average of the whole
year; for during the months from June to Novem-
Der inclusive, the number arriving is much great
err, while in the winter months this curse is di-
minished. We say curse in moral and physical
sense, and indeed in every way in which the sub
ject can be viewed as bearing upon our American
condition. By strict investigation through sci
enthc philanthropists in Europe it is ascertained
that wretchedness, ignorance, vice and mortality
are always in proportion to the accession of popu
lation upon given spot, and that whenever
community is augmented adventitiously or beyond
Its own natural increment, the natural and moral
diseases increase in the ratio of the viciousness
among the augmenting numbers. So that if among
twenty emigrants from Europe thrown into COM
munty of FIVE hundred here, there should be five
culprits, it would in reasonable time, through
the consequences Of this moral Upas, deprave one
fourth of the whole number OF the old settlers
This is not speculative philosophy, but it is pro-
ven by reference to every little settlement in the
country. 1t was the result of this truth that led
the people of Vicksburg to violate the civil law
for the sake of the moral, to visit upon the band
of gamblers which had grown from small nu-
cleus into formidable and open tribe Of depreda-
tors, the most vindictve punishments of hnman
law. 1t was the same conviction that raised first
the voice of admonition and then the arm of force
against the fanatics at Alton in Illinois, that
the spreading of the evils might have been sup
pressed in the very germ; and it was this expert
ence in all times that has made doctrine of the
proverb that "eyil communication corrupts good
Manners
1t is upon the truth of this that all Europe is
acting, and that too for her own benefit, while
we, too contented with present enjoyment to look
to that which is due to the close of our own gen.
Grafton and to the protection of our posterity, per-
NIT the evils to be shifted from distant shores to
be perpetuated upon our own. In this way we
acquire yearly more than one million of new in
habitants, who, with all their unannoned ulcers of
the old world upon them, are welcomed to swell
the strength and ambition of political factions.
Is this right? Does patriotism consist merely
in the success Of party, or in the spoils OF Offices
and are those attributes of nationality which spring
from the love of citizens for their own country to
be trampled under foot, or merged in the dema-
gogueic sophism that liberty gives all men equal
rights, at home, and everywhere?
I'LL do rysch
the seer, and paint out the horoscope of ills that
this vast immigration is to fasten upon our land ;
our task is rather to avert ito prevent those
scenes of strife and that bloodshed which sOiW
come when the tribes of the Scavonian race, of
the Gaus, the Milesans, and the whole hive of
Europe shall have outnumbered the native, and
made him the victim of the usurpers, and his chill
dren their slaves.
To prevent this has been the object of this press.
We have laboured to convince, to persuade our
neope of this ultimate risk; and while our convic-
lions of the truth of our cause have been frm and
our language plain, we have endeavoured to sep
arate the great question Of public good from pri-
vate feeling-to treat all men upon the soil as in
ierested in sustaining position, and to appeal
10 their Judgment instead of their passions. In
this temper shall we continue, though we cannot
but lament that SO many OF our own countrymen
should have tied themselves to the car of some po-
li,ical Jugernaut to crush their own kindred.
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We agree with our correspondent, "A Repub-
lican," in the proprety of annihating the dis
t;nction between Democrats and Federalists as
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