The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-08-30
NJ. Amsr. United IA,lsran Cops .All other
Total AN ,O3l 9i5656 l42, ,6l3 q $50 ,553 80:

This is most valuable memorial in a small and
convenient shape. We are surprised that the 9th
GERS of Government, or the leading presses at
Washington, do not favor the country aud the
world with the numbers of emigrants that reached
our shores the last year. We have long been look
ing for such item, but looking in vain. Indeed,
it were well for some having access to the doc
umcnts, TO give us the number Of foreigners who
have to settle in our country every year since
the earliest rccords-distinguishng the land OF
their birth II would be useful, both in practical
and scientific point of view.
1t il remarkable, in the above table, how large a
proportion of the British cmigrans prefer the nj
ted States notwithstanding ali the cxertons and in
nucncc used by their own government TO lead them
TO their colonies. Last year near three fourhs
came TO the United States. This new proof of
the attachment of the in Europe TO our free
institutions, although the arstocracy, and aristo-
cratic writers there, 20 strongly endeavor TO circu-
late bad opinions respecting US.
IL is new feature IN the history Of mgrations
that large number of the British cmigrants are
brought over by funds gratuitously provided by re-
atves already in the United States. A writer in
the London Chronicle, July Is, after learning the
amount Of bills transacted in this way, by five
houses in Liverpool, estimates that the grand sum
Of one million sterling, near S50OOOOO, is thus
sent over every year. This, To US, seems almost
incredible, though know OF no data Tor dsputing
il. Whatever be its precise amount, we know 1t
to be very large, and II is gratifying item, not
only in the annals Of the poor, but in the current
history of the world. 4 future Bancroft or Macau-
lay should not forgeti it.
IT. in addition to the 300 900 British emigrants of
last wear we knew the number of our own TO the
great West, and the number of Russans 10 Siberia,
and the Germans, Dutch, Norwegians, and other
Europeans, who are going out 10 hll up new coun-
trics would be more able 20 form definite
idea of the present great ptoyidcntial movement
soon TO alter the entire face Of the globe We sup
pose the whole company Will be about one million :
Aud this wonderful current is to continue year
after year-and increase in its millions we know
not how many fold, until the prophecy Is iulhlled
that ''msny shall run 90 and fro, and knowledge
shall he lcreascd.'
These modern migratiuns difl,r from the ancient
or preceding ages in many points, ard, among
others, by thcir cosfnudnee. When the saxous
came 10 England an entire community seems to
have come, all at once. - came the Goths to
Spain, and the Franks to Gaul. The Iielyetians Of
old, according TO Cesar when about 20 migrate,
burnt Up their cities and towns destroyed their In
provements and helds, and left their ancient pa
icrnal homes entirely dcsolate. OF the modern
Hungarans, II Is curious that they were so in
simultaneously cut of from all communication with
their former seats, that they have been completely
forgotten, and even now they have not found out
what country they came from. Professor Erman,
the late traveller in Siberia thinks, from philOogi
cal grounds. he has found their original scat in that
cold far eastern land along the river lrtish.
But the modern migrating nations exhibit no
signs Of exhaustion They are, IN TRUTH the most
vigorous and fourishing Of the whole European or
American stock. IL il remarkable how few 60 out
from the thckly pcopled Catholic countries oi the
South of Europe. II migration is 10 h the vacant
world, az seems very certain, u VIII be happuy
filled with the best and most intelligent races--an-
other indie that the destiny Of the present great
movements of mankind u for some impros cd and
exalted future. The North Of Europe was formerly
called the Northern Hive. II is entitled To that APP
pellation still, though the migrating area in tho
North has greatly enlarged.
IL is a most interesting and useful employment to
study carefully the map Of the world, and learn
how much land is yet vacant and 20 be occupied,
and how these migrating forces will enter upon
it, In this way, by learning the physical condition
of each region, considered home for the human
family, il is possible 10 calculate in advance how
numerous population each one is capable of sup
porting; and how great a proportion Of these will
remain OF the old raccs, and how many OF the new;
and thus the future condition Of the entire habitable
globe may, in some most important respects, be
made 10 stand before To 40 THE, much know
ledge is requisite Of the past and present state of all
countries, aud Of the current of history in former
ages and in our own day; then we may more easily
Judge OF the course and bearing with which this
current is now setting of. naJcstcslly and ire
sistbly into the great future.