American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-01-17


These children remain, of course, charge fol-
nine to ten years, or until they are old enough to
be apprenticed out to labor for their own sup
port, al cost 10 The city Of sererat hundred dol-
! lars each.
| In confirmation of this statement, the COM
mittee make the following extract of letter
under date of the 18th ult., from bondsman to
the agent of the Aims House, in relation to a
case of recent occurrence: "My object in now
writing is, that | wish you TO understand the
history of those two sisters They arrived here
in ship to my address, and shortly after they
were sent to the Aims House, and there gave
birth to children within four days of each other.
| have given them about ten dollars since they
left the Aims House, and now they come again.
| have frequently offered to send them back TO
Europe. | wish TO learn from you if lean send
them back lalcfuIiy. The way to put stop to
such characters coming here to contamnate the
public, is to send them all back on their arrival"
| AS further illustration of the result of the
present bonding system, in its application TO
children, the committee present the following
statement:
The whole number of children under the
protection and support of the Aims House, APP
pears to be S2l. OF these, COZ are at the farms
school, and 2l9 at the Aims House, Bellevue.
OF those at the farms school, 457 are the child
rem Of foreign warrants and l45 AmHr'"ans:
more than three-iourths foreigners, and all a
direct charge Oh the City Treasury. The farms
school includes only the children of three years
of age and upwards, Of the 2l9 under that
age at Bellevue, 1856 are placed without the
walls at nurse, and 81 remain within. OF the
former, 1877 are of foreign and As Of native ORR
oi,, (lf tho lattar pnpnhar ppfnDospd, OF The
latest born infants, 80 are foreign and only two
American, showing the ratio Of the more re-
cent births to be serenteen foreigners to one fine
rican. OF the whole number of children, 626
have foreign parentage, and 1875 American, ex-
hibiting the average of more than three foreign
ers to one native! and an alarming increase of
the ratio Of foreigners in the more recent births.
The shipment to this country of the inmates
of the poor-houses of Europe, more especially
of England and Germany, is no new thing. 1t
has been carried on quietly for several years,
and so advantageously, and SO entirely without
| remonstrance or complaint on our part, that
the governments of those countries lave ex-
tended their plan of operations, and included
of late worse class of individuals. The pol
ICY succeeding SO we'll with their paupers they
have recently commenced opening their pris-
ons, and banishing their convlcts TO our shores.
We have before us satisfactory evidence that
extensive contracts have been made and are
now making to ship off to this country, and to
Texas, whole classes of refuse population--the
lawless and depraved, as well as the destitute
-vagabonds and thieves, as we'll as paupers.-
We are also satisfied that men of high distinc-
ton, and connected with the governments of
the nations to which we refer, have contribut-
ed money to prosecute this infamous system. 1t
is also well ascertained that Botany Bay con-
tributes her annual quota of individuals who
have served their probationary term in that
interesting settlement. Such are too many of
the immigrants thrown upon our shores, to diff
fuse the contagon of their vices and their
crimes among our people-to corrupt the NOR
ais and prey upon the means of our citizens
Such are the seeds of American Common
wealths, by the federation of American legisla-
tors The evil is urgent, alarming, and on the
rapid increase, and demands the prompt inter-
ference of our national government in the pas
sage of remedial laws.
To establish the important fact referred to in
relation to the immigration of criminals and
paupers, they present the following extract
fiom the report of last month of the Deputy
Keeper of the Penitentiary on Blackwell's Is
land. Whole number of inmates of the Peni-
Tertiary and City Prison l4l9, showing an in
crease of more than four hundred since July
last-a period of five months. OF this number
there are IN the penitentary-