Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-06-11

crowded with foreign inmates and that the AZ
po ana private hsnevnsnne have hAAn hsavily drawn
haps been exaggerated =
~ must be remembered in the first place that the mm-
s"toA ualy pouring in from Europe is by no means
pauper immigration. On the contrary Il Il already re-
corded with apprehension abroad as occasionino great
abstraction Of capital How the case NAV be In Great
Dria ana Ireland, have no statement but Il ID
asserted on apparently good grounds that the consump
ton and abstraction Of capital caused hv ion
from Germany amounts annually to twenty millions Of rx
dollars or hfteen millions Of currencyx No doubt IL
Is attended with influx Of foreign paunerso In ra
ference to this, believe your system Of nnbc rees IL
better here in New York than ours in in
which, however, we are making important changes II
is said that owing defect s,srIo >. ;t-
administration support than our share Of needy
foreigners They sent in upon from other States
New York. as the greatest seaport be exposed also
to than her proportonae share the burden How
ever the evil arises it may doubt be mtgated by u-
dicous legislation and in the time Massachusetts
and New York might do thing with portion OF
their surplus means than feed the hungry cothe the
naked give home to the stranger and kndle spark
OF in the mind OF the poor foreign unac even
though that lunatc may have been las l ashamed,
for the credit of humanity to say has happened on
shore in the night from coasng vessel and found in the
morning in the fields half dead with cold and hunger and
fright. Applause
But you say 'sthey are foreigners" WE'LL do we owe
duties foreigners? What the founder of Vir-
gnin whom poor Indian girl threw herself between him
and the club of her father and saved his life at the risk
Of her own! What were the Pilgrim Fathers, when the
his little vocabulary of Kindness learned among the fish
the grand bank Of Welcome, Englishmen,"
They Foreigners And suppose they are? Was
not the country all but ready year two ago plunge
into conflict with the military despotsms of the east of
Europe order to redress the wrongs the oppressed
who feed their hocks the slopes the Carpa
thians and pasture their herds upon the tributaries Of
the Danube, and do talk Of the hardship of relieving
destitute foreigners whom the hand guided
across the and conducted doors Grea APP
plause.l
Muefw we learn laseo nf hanev tha
cient heather Let then learn IT, The whole theatre
at Rome stood and shouted their sympathetic applause
when the actor in Of Tcrcnce's plays exclaimed.
81 am man; nothing that is human 10 foreign to
me-" Applause.
Indifferent to the increase of the public bur-
dens but the time has been when felt little proud of
the vast paid in the United States for the relief of
poor emigrants from Europe 1t lisa annual sum- Ihave
doubt equal to the interest the foreign debt OF the
States which have repudiated their obligations When
was in London few years ago, received letter from
of the interior counties Of England, telling me that
they had in their House of Correction American sea-
Tor person who pretended to be) who, from their
account, seemed to be both pauper and rogue. They
DESTROYS of being rid Of him, and kindly offered to
place him at my disposal. Applause. Although he
did not bid fair to be be very valuable acquisition
back that he might be sent to London where il he
was sailor he could be shipped by the American Consul
to the United States ventured to add the suggestion
that if her Majestys Minister at Washington were ap
piled similar way by the of the poor and
wardens of the prisons in the United States he would be
pretty busily occupied But really felt pleased at
time when my little State of Massachusetts, as
ssng from to twelve thousand destitute British sub
ects annually be able to relieve the British Empire of
the only American pauper quartered upon it, [Great
laughter and applause
Ladies and gentlemen my humble tale is told. It's
first incident Columbus, begging bread for his child at
the gate of Its last finds You the stewards of
this immense abundance, the amoners of this than
imperial charity providing employment and food for
starving nations, and home for fugitive races.
SIN an instructive article relative German emigration
numbers who
mgrnted 1851 inclusive estimated
1886 the amount OF
capital distracted by them from the country Of 1880
millions Spanish dollars