The southern press., 1851-04-09
xhs rossaen nsnsut In Boston.


xhs rossasa Gsmsut In Boston
In our ediasFssI at yesterday. ws rsltsrsd to
the fAcs Of the prspondsssh<~ u t,c foreign sIe-
msus in the pcpsiasssn cf the ~IeyAi- city Of
Boston. Striking proefx Of this have already
bssu adducsd BY an in previous numbers Of this
paper, bat ws ind such conclusive con6rm&-
tion Of the fscl in the Boston journal Of March
slst, thai we cannot forbcar citing il. to cliacb
the matter beyond the possibility Of dispute.
Here is the admission. coupled with the COM
plant Of one Of lhsir own leading journals. Dis
pute 1t who dare
lMmlGR rlos.---Tbs great evil OF the day to
this city is the continued iniiax Of foreigners.
who, flying from the low wages aud poverty OF
Ireland, pour upon our shores In numbers TO
WHICH there appears to be no limit To this inn
mense immigration Boston acts like sicse---
the enterprising, industrious, and those who
have means, pass through and seek their for
tunes elsewhere, while the lazy, the vicious, and
the paupers remain--a constantly accumuIating
dead weight
For the following statistics upon this subject
We are indebted to that very interesting and
able work, The Report Of the Sanitary Com
mission Of Massachusetts s'--a work, let us say
in passing which should be carefully read by
every man who has TO pay taxcs---by every sell
fish man who thinks and looks only to his own
interest and welfare, and by every benevolent
man who wishes to do what he may for the
benefit Of his race
The increase ot oar foreign population in the
fue years since l840, is &c 603i against decrease
Of 1879 natioe! Shoeing that foreigners hare
actually cvoscded the natives beyond ne city limits
The births in Boston ia l849 pere 81 per cent
foreign and 38 per cenf natipe, although The ratio
Of population soas 46 foreign 10 81 natipe.
Boston has paid in the last five years about
$b35O000 per annum for the support of schools,
one.half of which goes to her foreign popua-
ton, making the sum of S875,000 expended for
this purpose within that time, and yet there are
more than thousand of these foreign children
prowling about our streets night and day, who
have not been got into our schools, and who are
erving an apprenticeship for the house Of cor
rection and the State prison.
The Boston Society for the Prevention Of
Pauperism has received in the past five years ap-
plications for employment from 1867 females
Of whom 1904 were foreigners, and ont of
$500 male applicants 5.034 were foreigners.
The whole number of persons relieved as
paupers in the county of Suffolk in l849 was
7,728, Of whom 4,549 were foreigners. The
whole number of paupers in the State in the
same year was 24892, of whom 1928 were
foreigners. The whole amount expended for
the support of foreign paupers by the State in
l849 was $l82,3ll, and by the towns, exclusive
of repayments for the State, a further sum suffi-
cient to make the aggregate ut least 100000
The whole number Of foreign paupers in the
State in 1888 was 2,765. The increase in ten
years was r.co hundred and sirty-eighi per cent
Boston is building an almshouse at Deer Is
land at a cost of $I5O,0o0, and new Jail at a
cost of 100000 for the accommodation Of for
eigners-neither would be required for our ma
tive population.
OF ITO dram shops in Boston, in I849, 800
were kept by foreigners, for the audable pur-
pose of increasing the number of tenants for the
new Jail and nmshouse.
About ee-fourths Of all arrests, of all COM
mitments to the County Jail, aud of all cases
before the police and municipal courts, are
foreigners.
The number of persons committed in the
House of Correction in Boston, in the last
five years, was 3,737, of whom 2,348 were for
eigners. The number committed in the whole
State in 1S49 was 3,065, of which Ito were
foreigners.
within the last eight years, has been altogether
among the foreign population Notwithstand-
ing the increase in numbers Of the native in
habitants, the number Of commitments among
them has moi increased.
One-third of all the inmates of the State
prison for the last twenty years. have been for
eigners, and the State is now expending $780,
900 to increase their accommodations.
OF 327 admissions to the Lunatc Hospital
in Boston, in six years, 100 were foreigners
For nipe years the Boston Dispensary had
under its care 81 ,909 cases, Of which 1892
were foreigners. In nlS49 it had 1850, of which
3,487 were foreigners.
At the Almshouse on Deer Island, from 1847
to Jan. +, $50, the number of paupers admitted
was 4,8l6, of whom 4,66l were foreigners. The
number remaining on the lst Of Jan. was 402
Of whom 369 were foreigners.
In lS49 the deaths by cholera in Boston were
TOT, of whom 572 were foreigners.
The whole number of persons who died in
Boston in l849 was 5,O79, of whom 1882 were
foreigners--beng SO foreign to Al native, in q
population 46 foreign to 81 native.
These are startling facts, and every one Of
| them--crime panperism, births and deaths
goes to show that the immigrants who remair
with us are population of the very worst de
scription. They ARE facts, too, which demand
serious consideration Are we willing thai
our city and State shall be made one grea
almshouse for the reception and support of al
the paupers of Great Britain and Ireland, and {
place of refuge for the rascals and thieves of the
old world And if not, what can be done tC
prevent tl
That these evis-crime and paupersm-art
increased by every importation of foreigners
does not admit Of doubt That they are offse
by no corresponding benefit, is equally clear
To the immigration of the honest the intelli
gent, the prudent and industrious, we open on
doors VIDE, for all such can make their own way
somewhere in our broad land, and will rather b'
benefit than burtben to the country; bu
why should we be compelled to find almshouse,
jais, courts and hospitals, for the idle the profit
gate, the depraved, the ignorant and insane?
The evil is apparent--the remedy not so clear
Yet il seems TO ms that something may be dom
/ by vigorous enforcement of the alien possen
ger law, in requiring bonds and exacting penal
ties. Something more may be done by CLOSING
nm the eigbt hundred dram-sho and somethjn,