Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-07-11

FOREIGN NEWS.
rom WILMER & Smiths European Times.


LIVERPOOL, June 10.
EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES.
attempt Of Germdnyto prereh Emigration -Ad.
verting TO the different projects which are now be-
ing entertained in Germany, and more especially
in Prussia, TO establish colonization on the Mos
quito Shore, the South of Brazil, the provinces of
LA Rata, and elsewhere, the London Colonial Ga
zette has the following pertinent remarks:
"The commerce and manufacturing industry of
Germany feel the pressure of competition from the
United States at least as much as those of Great
Britain The article of broadcloths alone. former
~ imported to great extent from Germany is now
manufactured in the United States not only for
domestic use, but also for expectation The looms
of the United States worked up in 1910 10 OOO COO
lbs of wool; in 1886, G0,000,000 lbs; and the
amount is now estimated at l00,0O0CO0 lbs. The
number OF spindles in operation in 1881 was 1917
OUO; the present number is said to exceed 3O00-
OOO. A similar increase has taken place in the
manufacture of linen, in steel works, iron found
ries, &c.
-" 1t Is not, therefore, to be wondered at that the
increased activity of American manufacturers and
the desire evn;ed by the Union 10 render itself in
dependent OF European manufactured goods, have
alarmed the states of the Zollverein; and TINT the
sovereigns of that confederation, with Prussia at
their head, should be anxious to devise means TO
divert into some other channel the tide of omipra-
ton setting so powerfully towards the United States
lhey l1Ne ulnSf reasons Tor entertaining such
a wish, which glance at the internal politics of
the German states will render evident The emf
grant, soon after his arrival in the United States
adopts the habits of his new country; he becomes
q reader OF the newspaper, and discusses national
rights and liberty with the ZEAL and generally with
the nadequately formed dogmatism, Of neophyte
These topics, having all the charm of novelty, fill
considerable part Of his letters to the friends and
relations he has left behind. lie dwells upon the
comparative happiness which is to be found in a
republic where there is no king and no nobility !;
where there are no game laws where there exist
a free press and jury; and where, in Short men
are their own masters, with every prospect of get
ung rich. These letters circulate from hand to
hand from village to village, and excite political
dissatisfaction and discomfort among such as are
not able to cmigrate for want of resolution or of
means, or who are bound by family tics to their
homes Prussia feels the danger to its institutions
flowing from this source, and feels at the same time
the lmposslblllty OF checking emigration, and the
lmpollcy OF such vain attempt Prussia seeks,
therefore, to prevent such of her subjects as are
bent upon emigrating from proceeding to the Unit
ed States, and to open to them, by home colon-
zaton other fields for their enterprise within her
own limits, where vast tracts of land lie still M
cultivated. From some cause another the offer
ed substitute appears unattracive: tracts of land
In his own country however fertile, are not invest
ed to the emgrant with the same charms which
surround the strange distant land and though he
more than half suspects that the pictures drawn of
IT are too often flattering and deceptive, and that
thousands of his countrynen have found them so,
the instinct of emigration is more powerful than
these halfhearted do lbts and fears"