American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-01-01

Treasury. Consul Lists letter was III the FOL.
loving words:
81 have made inquiries with respect to the
transport of paupers from this country to the
U lited States, but State affairs being in this
country not so openly conducted as might be
desired, have not been successful until OF late,
when, by confidential communications, hare
learned things 1chich ,oW require energetic meas
HreS on the part Qfthe Un,ed States TO be counter
acted. Not only paupers, but eren criminals, arr
transported from the inferior Of the country 10 The
seGports IN order 10 be embarked there for the Uni
ted States
"a Mr.. De Stein, formerly an officer in the
service in the Duke eff SAKE Gotha, has lately
made propositions to the smaller States oil Saxo-
ny For TRANSPORTING THEIR CRIMINALS to the
port Of Bremen, and EMBARKING THEM THERE
FOR THE UNITED STATES AT sEyENTY-FIyE
DOLLARS A HEAD, iohich offer has been accepted
by several Of them. The first transport Of crimi-
aaS, 1cho, for The greater part, haze been condemn-
ed 10 hard labor for life, (among them two noto-
rlous robbers, Picifer ana Albrccht, will leave
Gotha on the 18th of this month; and it is in
tended to empty, by and by, all the iaS and
warehouses; of that country in this manner
There is little doubt that several other States
will initiate that neiarious practice! In order
W sup III L DdFc Sclll uH III tUc hcHC-
raj Gazette of Augsburg, wherein have at
tempted to demonstrate that this behaviour was
contrary to all laws of nations, and that il was
a shameful behaviour towards country which
offers the best market to the German manufac-
! lures.
at has Of late also become general prac-
tlce in the towns and boroughs of Germany to
get rid Of their paupers and vicious members by
collecting the means for calculating their pas
| sage to the United States among the inhab-
tants, and by supporting them from the public
! funds'
This statement having attracted the atten-
ton of Mr.. Leopold Berwith, an officer of the
German Society in New York, he addressed
note to the Secretary Of State, dated December
Is, 1914, requesting to know whether the let
ter said to have been written by Consul List
was in his department; to which he received
reply in the negative. The correspondence
between MIR. Bierwith and the Secretary of
State is published in the New York Journal of
Commerce, accompanied by the assertion of the
editor, that the letter attributed to Consul List
sis unquestonably false" But this is an erro-
neous conclusion, as is shewn by the National
lntelligenccr Of yesterday, wherein the cores
pondence appears, with the following concu-
sve statement.
"lt may be, and doubtless is, very true, that
no communication Of the character of that at
trbutcd to Mr. List has ever been received at
the Department Of State, for the sufficient rea-
son that the Letter of Consul List which has
been referred to, was not addressed to that,
but to different Department Of the Govern
ment.
1t is not "false," however, but true, that
Letter was addressed by Consul List to this Co
vernment, not through the Department of
State, but through the Department of the
Treasury, from which letter the above is taken.
This Letter will be found printed n,the Exc
cuiiye Documents for the Cd session of the
s5th Congress, Vol 10, Doc. $40, pages 3 and
ID. 1t is dated at the Consulate of the United
States of America, Leipsc, March s, 1897, and
is addressed to the Hon. Levi Woodbury., Sc
cretary of the Treasury.
The Letter in question was communicated
to the House eff Representatives, on the 18th of
May, 1888, by the President of the United
States, with number of others to the same eff
feet, some from the State Department, and
others from the Treasury Department, in an
swer to call made by the House Of Represen-
tatives on the 3oth of April preceding"
This must settle the question as to the au-
thenticity of Consul Lists letter. In speaking
of this letter MIR. Bierwith says:
"Ihe statement purports to come from an
American Consul in Germany, and its extraor-
binary contents certainly deserve attention, if
true; at all events, they are well calculated to
strengthen the growing prejudice against immi-
grafton from Germany. The German popula-
ton OF this country must consider itself inter-
ested in the matter, at least as much as the ma
tives; and if the alleged discoveries of Consul
List are true, the German Society of ~ York,
of which am an officer, will cheerfully, and |
trust eifectually, cooperate with the public au-
thorities in preventing the evil with which this
country is said to be threatened"
Not only ''the German population of this
country" but all foreigners who either are, or
desire to become, citizens of the United States.
should consider themselves ''interested in the
natter" for to them it must be as unpleasant
as to natives, to have the criminals and pau
pers of Europe transported to our shores, to be
converted into citizens and rulers We there.
fore hope, that all who desire the prosperity Of
the country, whether native or naturalizeJ
will unite in the cndeavor to procure the pass
age Of an act by congress, which shall effectu-
ally prohibit the immigration offelons and pau
pers, and redress all other grievances, as far as
may be practicable, connected with the subject
of foreign immigration.
BEaUEsTs OF PAUL BECK. Among the be-
quests made by the late Paul Beck, of Phila-
delphia, is liberal provision for annual distri-
button to the outdoor poor, through the city
authorities, donations to the INDECENT Widows
and Single Women's Society, Orphans Asy-
lum, Soup Societies, Dispensaries, Provdent
Society, Magdalen ASYLUM. Sunday School