Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-10-19
From the Baltimore American.
Lahar In ENGLAND.

/ The long continued and still increasing emigra
tion from Ireland to this country, and the more
recent current Of emigration from England to
Australia, carrying off such crowds of the
laboring classes that British manufacturers and
capitalists are becoming alarmed at the prospect
Of an actual deficiency in the supply of labor for
their mills. Hitherto If there should be any
need Of hands Ireland could always supply them,
but at present it would almost seem as though
emigration from Ireland had taken the form of
an e1odus Of whole people.
year or more ago the London Times alluded
to the possible contingency of deficiency Of
labor in England, and seemed to think the emi-
grafton did really threaten to bring about such a
result The Times regarded such a result as
something to he deprecated. "The institutions
and customs Of this country" it said, speaking
Of England, "are oil adapted to the suppostion
Of vast difference of classes-a lower class,
redundant, necessitsus, ignordnh and manageable; !;
an upper class, wealthy, exclusive, united, and
powerful; and n middle class, struggling to
emerge from the lower, and attach itself TO the
upper" II considered, therefore, that an mex
haustible supply of cheap labor had so long been
q condition Of the social system that any great
enhancement of labor could not but work serious
disturbances well in the political in the in
dustrial sphere. 1.-TWO men, says the Times,
"haye been after one master so long that we are
be after one man"
We need not pause to comment upon a coRd
ton Of things which makes the redundancy, the
necessities and the ignorance of the largest class
Of the population prerequisite for the very ex
istence of a social and political system. 1t may
Of itself suggest reflections pertinent to the sub
ject.
In the view Of the increasing difficulty which
appears TO. be growing daily, on account Of the
large emigration Of laborers to America and Aus
trslia, the British journals express a great deal
Of anxiety The following is from the Daily
News, as we find il quoted in the London corre-
spondence Of the National Intelligencer:
where are we to look for aid? We answer
without hesitation, where we have found 1t often
before, and are finding it at this moment-in the
continent Of Europe. in the population Of Bel.
gium, Germany, and even France. Let il be
once known that hands are wanted in this coun-
try, whether for the plough, the spindle, or the
loom, and millions are ready to pour in from
cities and villages almost within sight Of these
shores We shall again see Saxons, Normans,
and Flemings invading US, this time in peaceful
array, and provoking no jealousy except among
the idle and demoralized, who may wish to keep
up monopoly Of labor in order that they may
themselves do no work at all Already there are
&c, 900 Germans in this metropolis, and they are
still on the increase. Here, then, is comfort to
the capitalist and manufacturer, and comfort, we
will add to the institutions of the country, which
would certainly be perilled by an excessive dimi-
mutton and consequent appreciation of our stock
of labor. We may depend on it, in the old world
we shall never live to see want Of hands. We
have our difficulties, and shall still have them,
but this is not one Of them"
1t does not seem to have occurred TO this wri-
ter that emigration to America might take off the
redundant population Of Belgium and Germany,
as well rs that of England. The French are not
much given to emigration to any country, and we
presume would be inclined least OF all TO Great
Britain, if they should emigrate in any numbers
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The opponents Of protection in this country
may see. if they choose to look, the nature o.
that sort of competition to which they would sub
ject American labor-leavine II naked and un.
sheltered by the fostering wing Of the govern
ment. They would expose it to an encounter, on
equal terms, with the labor Of lower class