Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1845-02-15

countrymen land why should we be so
much more benevolent TO foreigners, or
foreign governments are to their own
counrymenO was evinced by the people
lot Charleston raising four thousand dol
lars in one day for sick foreigners there.
Massachusetts supports vast numbers Of
foreign poor 4" Who fills your aims
houses?' said bombastic Irish orator, a,
a great meeting Of his coun;rymen, in
this city, but our unfortunate country
men? Send them to us and we shall make
them supporters instead Of dependents OF
aims houses" Chat is supporters If Amer,
icaaS) What an insult! "America ask
no better mpn to work and when the stars
and stripes are floating in the breeze, she
asks no better men 10 fight her baHles!'
Yes, such 'no better men," as the Irish
Greens, near the lines during the last war
and other places, who thought it better for
better men 10 fight our battles, and so tho't
it best to run away!
Facts like the following are often re-.
vealed at our courts:
Miller, was convicted of stealing a
coat" Court-Ilow long have you been
in this country? Pris. Zen years sir.
Court Where have you been all that time +?
PrjS,-Seven years in the Aims House
and eighteen months in the Bellevue Hos
piaI! CoMi--Proiitable citizen! Go to
the Penilentiary six months, and pay your
way by getting out stone"
The accredited immigrant agent" at
Montreal, says, after enumerating the
masses Of immigrant paupers arriving
here: "The remainde went directly to
Vermont and New York. OF 9507 Irish
paupsrs 1925 came up the St. Lawrence,
along the borders Of New York!
The Emigrant Committee" Of Mon
treaI, close long report on foreign pau
pers, by saying: We cannot close
without pressing upon the attention Of the
British Government and its Emigrant
Agents as well as Emigrant Associations,
in ireland and Great Britain, the impor-
lance Of selecting vessels" etc, This is
cool, and important, wthal.
Great numbers Of paupers, pre(errng
liberty to the pauper house, accost our
citizens daily; and large portion of
these are the,most dissoute and intemper-
ale character. A recorded example will
illustrate all we need say of half of them ::
= For The honor Of God, hear me-" said
an old woman, few days since, 10 a be.
nevoIent citizen, 81 am five days in your
country, and am starving with my little
ones. She was taken 20 a grocery store;
and quantity OF bread and ham-as
much as she could carry away-was Civ
en- her. A clerk followed her to grog
shop, where she battered the whole for a
5otle Of blue ruin and a sxpense.
No wonder, in view of these facts, that
he English greatly feliciate themselves
Of late in the fact, and exclaim. The
lower orders of our population have been
greatly improved by the immigration to
the United States oi thousands OF the idle,
azy and dIssolutem-No wonder Capt.
Marryatt, one of the " Distinguished for
re- gners," whom Americans are so fond
Of, yet who, on getting home, lampoon
md sIanderus so outrageously, excIamS:
What cargoes Of crime, folly and reck.
essness do we yearly ship off to Ameri-
,an'
The number Of Paupers in London re.
'eIvlng in and out relief, is 77,l86.
There are in Liverpool 1868 cellars,
dark, damp and dirty" in which live
rom two to six families with but one our.
ct. OF the 1873 1872, working people ia ,
1860 live in cellars. In S
70 houses, in Bury, each bed serves for c
our persons; each of 9O7 beds, served
or five, and rs for six persons. In Bris. I
ob 46 per cent. OF the working classes g
lave but one room. Other manulaciur. s
ng districts in England and Scotland, are c
qually wretched, and hence the charac G
er of the large numbers coming her e |
rom thence. In addition to all outdoor /
eliel, the New York Dispensary, it is &
aid, has furnished in one year, gratui- n
1us advice and medicine to near $4,000 b
ersons, and one.third at taeir dwelling 8
bout two thirds of whom were foreign o
RS. A Charleston paper says: "Mr. d
Iooney, the Irish travelling Repeal ag- b
tor, in this country, is taking up col S
ctions amongus for the support Of two h
: three hundred thousand foreign pau q
'rs, who have not yet arrived in this /
'untry! In the Hospital at St. Louis, Il
lie portion OF foreigners to Americans, 3!
as four to onel In nine months, there
ere 247 foreigners and IS Americ ans ga
sent BY one officer. ed
The recent importations Of paupers th
ON Genoa are cases of extraordinary en-
vessels have arrived an
thin few days into this port, with the gu
ost ugly and lazy paupers from that 'eI
ace, and we now find them strollng CA
out our streets begging and thieVng: nv
nst we longer submit to these outragesf ma
hn az IF h. 1fI rai