The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-12-15
Correspondence of the Dispatch.


There will be little work done in Congress
before he holy dGHs-ard probably but iittle
after.
One OF The most instructive and interesting
reports have ever read is that of the Super
intendeut OF the Census, Mr.. Kennedy. We
learn from il thui our population, OF foreign
birth, is some Int less than ten per cent OF the
Whole. This is less than the usual estimate ;
but LEI itnot silence oar apprehensiOns on The
subject OF Immigration and naturalization laws.
| am not jealous of European immigrants. A
large proportion of them speak our language,
and soon learn the genius Of our people and
government. OF the rest, by far the greater
portion aIe Germans, and these in general
prove thrifty, industrious and lahoring pe0-
pie But new aspect in immigration has ap-
peGred, and II threatens q state of things for
VIII CHI we must be prepared, or suffer in the
hour ct trouble. Within ten wears from the
present time the insress of people from China,
Japan and the Islands of the Sea, to our
Pacific coasts, will be Unprecedented. They
will ONE in tens and hundreds of thousands.
The shores will be darhened with them. And
what people Can they conform 10 our laws
and institutions? Can they learn tnemi Can
they ever learn our language? And if they
could 90 all this, could and would our people
assmlat4 with them, and upon what terms
Are they 10 bee come cltZens of our republic
under our present naturalization laws? And
if not, what shall we do with ihem7 The
Constitution of the United States says that
congress shall have power to establish "an
uniform rule OF naturalization" and we are to
inter that II has not power TO establish diverse
rules on the suit ct. Whatever laws it may
enact, therefore, must apply alike to our east
efn and western coasts. The question then
Must arise, whether we are TO bear the ills of
The Pacific side OF the continent or 10 assume
an attitude apparently adverse to the immi-
grants from Europe Oh the Atlantic side
Action on the subject will soon become neces-
saFy, aud The sooner il is entered into the bet.
Ter. The several States have various laws On
the qualifications OF voters. Is il impossible
ie induce uniformity in this particu lar by anv
future naturalization laws enacted by Con
gress?
When the republic Of Texas was annexed
10 the United States eight yeuis ago, lis NAVY
contained twenty-tllree officers. OF these but
eight are now alive. Under the Joint resoiu-
non oil annexation, IN conformity with the only
known precedents, and in accordance with the
principles OF equity, these officers should have
been at once received into the United States
Navy, ranking as they did in the NAVY of
iexas. There were seventeen of them who
Will never claim this right! Will it be grated
10 the remaining eight? Why mott Why has
II been thus far neglected The resolution
OF annexation conveys TO the United States all
me public ediGces, fort fications, barracks.
ports and harbors, navy and navy yard,
oocks," &c, of Texas. That these gallant
oiticers computed part Of the Navy, is pro.
oably not doubted by any one, nor can com
Hehend any reason for our retaining from
oolhg justice 10 them at once, before the rem.
nun OF mem shall pass away. They are rem.
az en.'u mere at present by Commodore +
w moore, as hrm, as gallant, and as excelien,
uu olnceI as ever paced quarter-deck, ma n
"ho IN Tue twenty three Years he was in com,
ship-board. III "o't v, guy on