Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1848-11-11
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IMMIGRATION.

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would soon exist there? Forwe undertake
to say that our country produces its share of
as active and desperate rogues as any other
country We love to see foreigners make
our broad free land their home. We ex-
tend to them the open, free hand Of fellow
ship aud the rights of citzenship--we adopt
them freely as our feilow-eitizens, when they
bring with them honesty, sobriety, industry,
all that makes up the qualities of good
citizen. We are proud of our adopted fell
low-citizens in Grant county. Whether
from Germany, Ireland, Scotland or Eng
land, they are, in general, peaceable, law
tabiding, Industrious people. But shall the
press in a free country, lack the manliness
to speak out against the Uncomfortable wrong
and Injustice detailed in the following par
agraph which we copy from the London
Times? We never feared to print any
thing that is true for well do we know,
that all candid men, wherever they are from,
will sustain us in it. Here is the paragraph
referred to =
Z" We have been the steady advocates of
emigration, yet we are no friends to MIR.
Jackson and what is called the City Mis-
son.' 1t may be that many persons are not
aware of the significance OF these terms
i Mr.. Jackson is gentleman who has for
some time been engaged IN pruning the so
cial garden upon emigration principles; the
phrase City MIssion' indicates the scene Of
his labors. MIR. Jackson. in short-and
whether the merit OF originality belongs 10
him, or whether he he merely acting minis
terialIy for others, we cannot SAYS carry
ing out scheme OF lelon emigration upon
ali extensive scale.
/ :" If Mir. jackson were content TO direct
his horde upon tract of country tcnanted
alone by the kankaroo, the Opossum, aud
the Bandicoot, no oue--no foreigner, at
least-wouId have ii legitimate ground of
compiant. The system would sound
strange enough even so. Ii seems an odd
way OF reforming Il community To pun
premium upon petty larceny aud bonus
upon burglary This Is applying the slim
ulous at the wrong end. Lren if Mir. Jack
son were about to dispatch his proteges 10 "a
desert land, it might well become question
AiiN b0tAAi4iNtiitg NNHtht "N''t'tt''N "
wink at the existence OF very well organ
ized society for The propagation AMI encour-
agement of vice.
50 Mr. Jackson, however, does not leave
us in any such dubious state Of mind as 10
the tendency of his system. lie dispatches
his emgrants, untidy, morals and all, oil to
the United States that is 10 say, into the
very heart of populous commercial com
munity. The local authorities are coy at
receiving into their territories perennial
steam OF English black guardiSn. They do
not approve MIR. Juckson's plan of trunk
sewerage to vent ali the moral ammonia of
/ England upon their soil. ihe authorities
either of the State of New ork or OF The
Federal Government are about, as it Il sug-
gested, to make sUme protest against this
aStute plan for disposlng of English felony.
I The way the matter WAS brought under their
notice can leave but little doubt that the sys
TEN of this English Felon Association' Is
such as we have represented il 10 be. The
strongest confirmation Of tile statement
comes, in fact, from Mr.. jackson himself,
Some time back the wives Of two emIgrants
TO The United States presented themselves
at one Of the London police offices. Their
husbands had received free passage out to
America from an association with which the
name Of Lord Ashley was said to be con-
nected, and of which Mr. jackson was, up
on his own showing, the principal manager.
1t appeared in the course Of the investiga-
ton that there was IA town a society winch
prOlessed to take into consideration applica-
lions of parties who had been formerly con-
victed of crime, but who were now ANXIOUS
to retire from the scene OF their former ms
deeds, and enter upon new course Of lie.
This sounds at first like charity in It's most
Gd eaptanduDs presentation, and no doubt
many good oanaritans have been Induced
TO contribute their mite 10 SO very 5eneyo-
lent an arrangement. But the misfortune l.,
the criminal antecedengs once admitted as
the qualification, il follows 10 strict logic the
more heinous the criaiinalIiy the higher the
qualification. W hat credit, then, IS TO be
fattached to the promised reformation! Per-
haps here also the deeper the criininalliy The
more belief to be placed III the criminals
promise that he is on the eve OF a thorough
reformation.
:. IL came out in the course of the investi-
CATION that Mr. Jackson aud his friends had
met with great success ia throwing thieves
Of various degrees of standing ia the pro-
fessiOn upon the United States. They
pIumed themselves upon the success OF their
exertions. Mr.. jackson BsseYCrated over
and over again to the magistrate that the
positive belief that The parties shipped had
led the life of often convicted CRIMINALS was
entirely essential for their applications to be
entertained, aud that there was 10 reason 10
SUPPOSE the vigilance of the association bad
ever been IN fault, except In the Instances
then before the cOurl.' 1t had turned Vut
that Of two emigraHis whose fortunes were
Then under discussion, The one had never
/ been convicted OF any offence al all. AID iDe
other simply Il some Infringement. oi the
/ hackney coach act. The success, however,
with " hch they stimulated crime, aud made
themselves out objects Tor lie favorable III
lierDosition Of the society, may be- taken 90