The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1852-10-22
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Scott was writing his celebrated letters a.
gainst ourimmigrant populations. The Jour
nal, then us now, is o leading Whig sheet,
and has temporarily changed its tactics as
has ben. Scott They now "stoop 20 COM
queF9Nwhich accounts for their present en-.
dearing phrases 10 our adopted citizens:
From the Louisville journal, Dec. IA. 1874.
| THE ADVANTAGES OF AN ASYLUM ron THE
OPPRESSED OF ALL NATIONS. FOREIGN Pau
PERs AND VAGABoNDs OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS.
! when the Wings Of the American Revo.
lution had by their valor achieved the indie.
pendence OF this nation, they reioiced in
their triumph, not only because it secured
TO themselves and their descendants The bles-
sings oil Tree government. but because they
had also secured an asylum to which the
worshippers of liberty in all nations might
flee from oppression. BY establishing an
ass,lun Tor the oppressed, those noble-heart-
ed men did not mean that they rad establish
ed sink iptoybich all the pice and pollu.
tioaof hetoreign acorid teerct to be poured. -
When they talked of a temple of liberty and
an asylum for the oppressed, they by no
means meant that they had established in this
country vast poor-hoosp which foreign ma
tions were TO fill with'thpir neglected, ragged
and disSolute paupers Our Iiberality has
been amplitied far beyond the meaning and
hopes OF those great and good men. They
intended thai the fiery hearted champions
OF human rights should come to this country
and enjoy the liberty for which their souls
valnly painted in their native homes, but we
have made broader the gates they built up,
and now extend greeting to the scum and
cf8conring Of the world.
1t is well known that for many years for
egn nations have been emptying the s,pelter.
ing contents Of their jaiLs and poor houses up
on our shores. PAUPERS, MIGRANTS,
VAGAB0NDS AND VILLAINS of every
hue and shape are sent here to plumber, to
beg. and TO be fed at our expense. The evil
has grown to be enormous, and self-preserva-
ton demands that il shall be checked! The
city OF New York is taxed annually to the
amount ofsSl50,000 for the support of alien
paupers and vagrants; and other sections in
proportion, We have no doubt that the peo-
pile OF the United States pay every year many
millions of dollars to feed and clothe the
VAGABONDS that come to US from beyond
the sea- Ii this is the only way in which
an asylum for the oppressed of all nations
can be supported in this country, we think
the asylum system is an intolcrable nuisance.
1t an asylum for the oppressed means poor
house for PAUPERS and home for uillain-
ous tattcYaSmalions, the sooner we renounce
il the better 1t will be for us. No one OBJ
jects to the immigration into this country of
honest, Industrious, intelligent foreigners
who will not become tax IN the industry of
our own citizens; but to be overrun bv VILE
HORDES OF LAZY, FILTHY, BEASTLY
WRETCHES, who will not work, who beg
the earnings Of honest industry, and pilfer
them whenever they get chance, is quite an.
other thing. This evil, we say, has attained
a magnitude which forces attention TO it
Some steps must be taken 10 stop this VILE
FOREIGN FLOOD, or we shall be drowned
out by it.
We are glad TO observe that this subjec!
is attracting the attention Of those who most
seriously feel its evils. In the city of New
York some effort has been made by the au-
thorities TO suppress it, but they have not
yet been very successful. 1t is ascertained
that more than two-thirds of the inmates OF
the almshouse in New York are foreign pau
pers. What is true of that city, is, to con.
siderable extent, true of all sections of the
United States. Everywhere, the charities of
our peopeare invoked in behalf OF the wretch
es that have been sent from foreign shores,
10 anextent not required for the support of
American paupers. ONE-HALF OF THE
THIEVES AND NINE-TENTHS OF THE
BEGGARS in THE COUNTRY ARE FOR
EIGNERS.
Not only our poor-houses but our prisons
are full of English, Irish, Dutch, French, and
Scotch scoundIels, as well as scoundrels from
every Continent. State and Island in the
known world. And all these BEGGARS,
MIGRANTS, SCOUNDRELS, and VAGA-
BONDS, are fed and clothed at the expense
ofhonest American citizens. If this branch
of the Asylum is not speedily Topped off BY
our Government.-O ATMOSPH ERE
WILL BECOME PESTIFEROUS WITH
The EXHALATIONS OF FOREIGN
VAGABONDlSM AND VILLAINY. AND
EVERY PART OF OUR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
SYSTEMS WILL BE ROTTEN AND CORRUPT BE-
YoND CURE. Our nation is already the Bota.
ny Bay of the civilized world, and if the sem
Eding Of paupers and villains bither is not now
checked by the Government, the day will soon
arrive when the population of our cities will
be worse than that of Port Sydney. Scouh
dreism will be the fashion, ard a majority
of men will wear the badge of rascality, as
negro dandies wear their cambric, thing tc
brag of as well as for use.
We see it stated that one Of The German
towns lately emptied the contents of it
work-house, men and women, boys and girls
the halt, the lame, and the blind, the victims
: of crime, some without ears some armless
and others legless, from the scum 70 the dregs
+, into the United States. The success Of thi
experiment upon our asylum. system, will
no doubt, lead TO many similar experiments
and we may confidently expect in the cours
y of few years, that all the ships that com
from over the ocea will bring us THE MOS
STRANGELY ASSORTED cARaoEs OF LIVE s'rocl
y EVER EXAMINED BY EYES THAT LOVE TO STUD
y ZOOLOGY RATHER IN LARGE MASSES THAN I
IS DETAIL. Il is well known that the Unite
s States are greatly indebted to the enterprls
of England and Ireland Tor many ship loads
: schooner loads, and sloop loads of these RAR
. SPECIMENS OF HUMANITY in which the poe
le houses Of these benighted countries abount
4 Now, if our asylum were museum ties
specimens of humanity would be invaluable
=, and we should soon have the richest colie'
~ ton ever seen. We do notknow how
n happens, but the specimens Of FOREIGN PAl
,, pERs THAT WE HAVE SEEN ARE THE OpDES
:. AND ITC7IAEST THINGS THAT EVE