American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-09-04

ISAIAH BALDERSION.
Resolution passed unanimously By The conventions
.,RGsolrcI, That as Native Americans we are me
friends of Rcinrm-tha' we 20 TOR fe'tHchlhs an
eytr7vagant expenditures OF the PhbIc motN Mmu'H
by the state general govcrtm'ht-ilt summon
81 4 useless Offices, and the correction ct All ABUSES
at the elective franchise and naturalization laws
How II IS DoNE. 1t is known to onr read
crs, that by direction Of President Van Buren,,
letters were written 70 our foreign consuIs, m
curing whether foreign governments or other
authorities were in the habit OF transferring
their cony.cts and paupers TO this county
and that affirmative replies were received from
Mr.. Lis, and other consuls. In consequence OF
fhc notice thus taken of the subject by our
Government, the Senate of Bremen, at its
sessva on the 18th January, 1888, issued a
proclamation, prohibiting ship owners, ship
brokers and consignees of vessels, from recev-
ing criminals on board of vessels destined for
the United States. Nothing is said in the PRO-
clamation in relation to paupers, aud conse-
guently their transportation to the United
States is still permitted by the authorities Of
Bremen. But in regard to criminals, the reg
ulatIons of the Bremen Senate are proved to be
Intellectual; and, although they may have been
adopted in good faith, they do not and cannot,
prevent immigrant convicts from being brought
80 this country. They were passed in Janua-
ry, 1888, as has been seen; and yet we have
the evidence upon oath, of three passengers on
board the ship Republic, which arrived at Bal
4 ~ 4 Al.
less than twenty-eight criminals were brought
out in said ship How are the Bremen reguIa-
tons thus evaded3 1t is done in the following
manner: ship broker or his agent proceeds to
the interior and bargains for the transportation
Of convicts and paupers, each of whom is fur
nished with a receipt for the passage money,
and with passport for Bremen and the United
States. With these, said convicts and paupers
proceed to Bremen, arc received as ordinary
steerage passengers, and are brought 10 the
United States: and thus, if the practice be not
arrested, we stand fair chance of having the
whole criminal and pauper population Of Eu-
rope transferred to our shores. Against this
we protest in the most earnest manner, as cal
cuatcd to demoralize our country, and to de-
stroy the industrial portion OF our community;
besides the injurious effects which must result
from comforting the rights of citizenship upon
these reckless and incompetent persons
We refer the reader to the interesting depo-
sition of Mr. q. Huinichenn, isee below
which is clear and distinct on the points to
which we have alluded. lie shews conclusive
~, that criminals and paupers from the interior
may be sent by the authorities to this country,
without the knowledge of captains or ship
owners in Bremen, or their consignees in this
country-and to guard against these impos-
lions lie very properly suggests that Congress
shall pass an act, requiring passengers to pro-
duce certificate of their morally good beha-
yiour while residents in foreign country."-
let such certificate be fIom the u. S. Consul,
and prohibit the landing Of any passenger who
cannot produce it, and the evil may be cor
rected.
The following IS the deposition just men
toned.
C. Huiniohenn appeared, and made the fol-
Se'NNS'A'S''N
sworn:
In reference to the first inerogatory, have
nothing to communicate; nor do |, secondly,
know OF any instances OF fraud practiced in pro-
curing naturalization papers; and, as do not
NEEDLE with politics, am totally unacquaint-
cd with doings at the polls at the time OF cleo
tons. That frauds are practisod every time,
have no doubt of; and they can, in my opn-
ion, only be prevented by the passage of re-
gistry law.
4. know Of no instance where naturalza-
tien papers have been granted to foreigners in
violation of the laws Of Congress.
;. have no knowledge of an instance that
convictS have been introduced into the United
States. If such has been the case, it has natu
rally been kept secret, as the persons sent as
such from abroad, as well as those that send
them, would certainly not like it to be known.
The papers stated, some time ago, that con-
victs and paupers had been brought into our
ports To prevent this, law ought to be pass
ed by Congress, requiring passengers to produce
a certificate of their morally good behaviour
while residents i'll foreign country. The
Government in the sea ports of Germany or
Holland are, in my opinion, exempt from all
blame, as well as ship owners. Every family
passing Their borders has to produce passport
before they allow them to be Introduced there,
which you are also probably aware of, Cap
talns or ship owners seldom see the passengers
before they come on board the vessel, and per-
sons willing to 90 to the United States in most
instances, engage their passage in the interior
of Germany, where agents of ship brokers give
them a certificate that the passage money has
been paid, with which they then proceed to
the places of embarkation, and are taken on
board.
have frequently heard that persons arrived
IN cur ports without hardly cent in their poe
kets, but cannot state this as a positive fact :;
nor do know whether these persons were sent
TO our country as pauPers, or whether they
mid tho nacsann money themselves. though |