The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-30


lise their money for our railroads, canals, and ohei
works, all over the country, foreigners newly ar
rived are Immediately and largely seen aiding IN
their actual construction; that there 10 not year IN
which horticulture, our agriculture, our manu-
features, indeed all departments Of labor, are not
Increased by their association with us ought we
not to remember all this, when il Is 80 apparent
Do not let il be Imagined, either, that the Foreigners
who come TO us are all poor, though their labor u
self is riches. Ii would be the greatest Of mistakes
to suppose that they do not bring money too
They bring il, and in no small amount. Il is only
lately we have seen il stated that the specie brought
into the United States. last year, by German immi'
grants Alone was supposed to amount to EIGHT
MILLIONS Of dollars. ! as lately read in the pa
pers, that the Bremen ship Johannes, having lef
Bremen for Baltimore last March, with 156 immi-
grant passengers without being heard Of since, was
supposed to be lost and read H. could not help
thinking what valuable body Of men--the most Of
them, In all probability, bringing money with them
also-had been lcst 10 the United States with that
single vessel Travellers inform us that there is,
perhaps, not place the globe whose inhabitants
more orderly, industrious, and virtuous, thar
the inhabitants Of that ancient Hanse town and
neighborhood Their love for fowers-always a
token of advanced civilization and good moras-is
remarked upon, and would seem not inferior to
the similar taste which the traveller perceives in
Switzerland, and in many Of the furai districts in
France. Will the migration of such persons to our
country be likely to work mischief
No, lei us discard the notion as unsuted to all
dspassionate and broad organizations Of this great
subject, that We derive advantages from foreign
making this country their home. II, among the
numbers that come, we do get bad ones, (Which IL
undoubtedly true-there are bad of all countries J
they dust in the balance compared to the in
dustrious and useful portions. The class of poti-
clans who come is also extremely small, compared
to the whole bulk, and infinitely small compared to
our own home-stock Of native Americans. With
out kriowihg ything Of the fact with precision,
would almost venture to ASSERT THU Of the members
Of the House Of Representatives and Senate Of the
United States at present. not six could be found who
are Of foreign BIRTH if Many and the proportion is
probably as small in the State legislatures Of the
Union. Our native citizens arc altogether over
whelmng in numbers. All foreigners soon get melt
ed down with them--much sooner than we think;
thus perpe,ually forming the great of nativi
ty; whether the foreigners be Germans or men
from Bremen or other Hanse towns, or Prussans,
or Holanders, or Swedes, or Swiss, or Scotch, or
French, or English or (shal at last dare to name
them0 hish-yes, will: | am neither repeater
nor Catholic, nor have a drop of Irish blood in
my veins; but what American can refuse Ireland
some little place in his hearl Ireland, the country
ofgenius, and sensibiity and eloquence, and valor
and wit .-of Burke, Grattan, Sheridan, Curran,
Flood, Montgomery, and Moore lreland.--so. long
oppressed, yet always SO buoyant! lrSland--whose
sons may be seen fighting in every part of the world
where tyranny exists to fight against Ireland
whose sons, in Pennsylvania at least fought almost
in whole regiments for our glorious independence
What American can ever forget Ireland, with all
we hear said about her, and against her? And even
though with the generous, and jovial, and noble
spirits she sends to us, and thousands Of good la
borers TO boot she does send rotcdies tool Let
US be careful that native rowdyism and Lynchism
do not grow TO be their match.
The federalists imbibed their prejudices against
foreigners from misapplyng the example Of Eng
land. The prejudice seems otherwise inexplicable
II may here be mentioned as something very re-
that the greatest political and party favorte
the federalists ever had and certainly man Of rare
a6iliues was Alexander Hamilton, Of foreign birth
Ia Jamaica man--whom Washington appointed
first Secretary Of the Treasury Had the federal
lists copied the English example in its true spirit Mt
could not have misled them. England in more re-
cent times has been strict in her naturalization laws
because she supposes her small and beautiful island
TO be fully peopled already, if not over-peopled;
but she was too sagacious to do it formerly. In
the time of her Edwards and Henrys, she invited
foreign artisans and capital TO her borders, men
from the low countries Italy and elsewhere; and in
Ezabcth's time, the renowned statesmen who then
fourished encouraged the immigration Of foreign
ers, whereby the trade and manufactures Of Eng
land were greatly accelerated and improved. At
this epoch and later, the English statutebook
will show that alien manufacturers might be natu-
ralized without any previous residence in England,
or oath Of allegiance. II need scarcely be added
that, considering the wide extent Of our exuberant
territory, considering the millions upon millions of
uncultivated acres which we still have to the Far
West, and nearer at hand than the Far West the
Uuited States and their territories in their whole
may in some sense be almost called
desert, compared to what England, with her little
span of earth, was in the time of Elizabeth. Yet
she invited additions from abroad to the native
stock of English population then, whilst there are
some amongst US, doubtless with good intentions,
who are for excluding newcomers from the United
States now; or, at all events, who would lessen
their inducements to come, by imposing new clogs
upon citizenship. II seems difficult to reconcile
such with the known sagacity and lberality
Of American principles.
will say no more on this head, though greatly
more might be added. / can honor the first feel
ings from which the native American party sprung
The first sound Of the name upon the ear is capti-
waiting, and seems to pointto patriotic root but 1t is
primary object of this little address, to remind you
that the doctrine which would inculcate jealousy of
Foreigners among us, or seek to narrow their priv
eges, or prolong the term Of was
the growth Of the worst days of FEDERALISM under
the iercest exaspeatons Of party srife that i cam
not therefore, fairly be pronounced even the delber
ate or calmlyconsidered doctrine Of federalism; and
the address also puTports TO show, that the more
carefully the doctrine Is examined historically, and
brought to the test practically, the more unwse is
It found. to be Indisputaby, il has ever been re.
to the democratic creed. It has been well
said, that the two staple commodities Of all coun-
tries are man and the earth. Accordingly, wise le-
gislaors and statesmen, ancient and modern, with
exceptions hardly existing, have always aimed at
recruiting the population, and thence the riches OF
their respective countries, by holding out encourage
ments to immigration; and it scarcely possi-
BILE to conceive Of country where there is more
for the beneficial operation Of the policy than the
United States, all circumstances considered; and
considering chiefly their extremely sparse popula-
lion at the present epoch, measured by the vast ex-
tent of their territory.
have few words to say on one other question.
am almost ashamed to say that it is the 'church
and state question: for who could have imagined,
that in this 18th century, and in North America,
settled for the sake of civil and religious liberty,
could ever have been necessary TO breathe syllable
on such a subject.
Perhaps ! cannot do better in this connection
than relate AN anecdote which introduces the name
Of Mr.. Carey. It contains more within a short
compass than all could write on the subject.
Some among YOU must have known the late