American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1844-11-13

VAGRANCY-DANGERs FROM FOREIGN PAU
PERLSM In THE UNIFIED STATES.

From the Yankee BladegI
VAGRANCY-DANGERS FROM FOREIGN PAU
PERISM IN THE UNITED STATES.
We are glad to see that the press is rousng
public attention to this evil, which is ncreas-
ing to fearful extent in this country. No one
who cares for the morality and happiness of
our country, can witness without alarm the
prodigious influx of foreign ignorance, vice
and misery which is sweeping over the land
The subject has of late become one of vital in
terest, and is too pregnant Of evil to our mo-
raj, as well as of destruction TO our political
institutions, to be suffered longer to pass in 81
ence and secrecy The needy and degraded
outcasts of European MISUNDERSTANDING OF
the means of life, and laboring under physical
and mental disabilitics-are brought to our
shores by thousands, and press like an incubus
upon the energies Of our high-mnded and in
dustrous native population. The taxes Of
every city, and nearly all our large towns, are
enormously increased, and the almsheuses
overwhelmed, for the support of foreign pau
pers, transported here in hordes at the expense
of European parishes. 1t has in reality be-
come a part Of the Parochial system OF England
to ship the sweepings of her poor houses to the
United States, and the changes introduced into
her pauper system, were directly calculated to
stimulate and swell the amount of these ex-
portations. A Philadelphia paper says that an
intelligent and active guardian of the poor has
expressed the opinion that the support Of the
poor in that city would be triling and insight
hcant charge, were not more than Hnee.I0u1thS
OF the paupers in the almshouse imported from
the Old World. They are allowed to land in
Delaware, and Immediately hasten to this city.
Frequently whole family comes directly from
the ship to the amshouse. Great numbers
disembark in Canada, whence they hurry as
1u IN
wards of two hundred vagrants were commit
ted to the county prison in Philadelphia during
the week before last Unless the laws regu-
latng emigration are enforced more vigorous
y, we shall be compelled to enlarge our aims
houses and prisons, or endure the annoyance
of swarm Of foreign mendicants, who nest
together in thckly settled places, reduce the
wages of our hardy and intelligent laborers,
and degrade their ideas of decency and COM
fort by the communicating example OF the most
revolving filth and wretchedness.
Twenty years ago, an American visiting
European city, might have reflected with e%-
ultation that the spectacle of squalid and lousy
beggars prowling through every street, would
not in his own country thrust itself upon the
strangers observations but now we see with
humiliation the same objects presenting them
selves in all our large cities The drones that
Europe ''breeds in her decay" are shaken from
her lap upon the blooming bosom OF our thf-
wing land. The sluices Of corrupt and de-
based emigration from the old world are flung
open, and the dregs of centuries are drained OIL
upon us. The purity of our elections, toe, is
grossly corrupted by the thousands of foreign
ers who flock to our shores, poor and ignorant,
without that knowledge of our government
which is essential for Just appreciation OF Its
principles, and destitute of that comprehensive
wisdom, dignity and self-respoct which would
restrain the indulgence of their heated and in
furiated passions The mass of them, indeed,
have no real sympathy with our institutions;
the story of our glorious struggle for lndepen-
dence is to their rayless ignorance dead let
ter. Educated in habits Of dependencc-poor
and half-starved-they are consequently sub
servent, superstitious and easily corrupted;
and however honest in their designs, become a
dangerous engine in the hands OF tactlous
demagogues to overawe and control our native
citizens. Having no conception OF freedom,
except as the extreme opposite OF the oppres-
sve restrictions under which they have groan-
ed so long, they leap upon oar shores with en-
aggerated and fanciful notions of this Gland OF
liberty" and hardly a riot is perpetrated with
out them We regret to perceive, that there
are not wanting persons, who, for political pur-
poses are ready not only TO bow to their igno-
rant pfeIuulCeS anu lOieStuil lliGll
but even to aid them in obtaining papers OF
naturalization, years before the arrival of the
period which entities them to the rights of citl-
zenship. Thus it happens that the balance OF
power in many States, and perhaps itwould
not be going too far to add, in the United
States, is welded by foreigners This is a
fearful state of things, and unless remedial
measures are promptly taken to check the lep-
rosy which is creeping over the body polite,
we may Justly feel alarmed for the safety of our
govefrnont We would have our land an
asylu,a Tor the oppressed of every cline; but
VIZ, ayaton, what dignity, what compre-
her. wisdom, patriotism or true manness,
can la expected of nation, if its ruling power
is ute y unenlightened, subject to hasty i'm
pulses, easily corrupted, and Indifferent whetil-
er its agents ride into Office over the necks OF a
PROSTATE people, or are elevated by real merit
and the voluntary sullrages of their fellow cltl'
zens' Heaven, in It's mercy, avert the day
when the men who now control the elections
in our large cities, shall be themselves every
where elevated to office!
IPMr. Green, the anti gambling lecturer
has held forth at the Marlborough Chapel, Bos-
ton, to crowded auditory, who received his
add with marked satisfaction.
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