The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-04-14
The Irish Exodus.

numerous family, did he but breathe wish TO emlgrale
was placed under the ban OF suspicion and contempt and
regarded born TO break his mothers heart. and
nevertheless forbidden, under the sternes maedcton
10 persevefe IN bis unnatural scheme SO great is the
change that now the accomplished, the high minded the
wealthy the comfortable often the first 10 emgrate
and II is the common remark OF emigrans that almost
IN Australian colony they will meet with
oeer society than IN The and minded circle
OIL an English county town. lndolt nee aud stupidity
lett behind 10 settle their lees and finish ou those
vulgar quarres which form so large part Of Middle
class life In this country Genius and nobility OF mind
are wingng their fight 10 reer and more genial atmos
phere.
The Irish emigration is not only OF The character we
have described but has other and still more honorable
qualities All that strength OF affection, and those domes
lie virtues which Distinguish that unfortunate race and
which have made them hug their poverty with too fatal
grasp, are now exerted in augmenting and dgniiyng
the tide OF Adventures But few years ago the mem
bers OF family used to club their scanly means TO enable
guard has secured the ground and draws the rest oil
the column after it with increasing momentum Every
American pvst we are told by Galway journal brings
It's supply OF remances, upon the receipt oil which
crowds OF emigrants hurry away, with scarce mo-
mens delay preparation II seldom fails that letter
from an Irish emgant in America is followed by the dc
parture OF one two three, or more 81 the relations
at home" They are described as no longer broken
down tenants. but persons well enough to do IN TINS
world whom the OF their friends strange land
stimulates 10 follow "The remarkable instance OF
this change OF feeling and OF altered circumstance has
been afforded this very day in an extensive emigration
from the islands of Arran Seven years ago, while
famine scared them from wretched home, 10 part from
their native islands would have been second death to
these primitive and secluded people Now when they are
in comparative auence, able to satisfy all their moderate
in home hallowed by many sacred traditions,
departure to distant land causes them little emo
lion To leave their home forever seems 10 give them
as little visit few years ago 10 lar IN
Galway, where some change of weather might possibly
deain them some two three days Some thirty or forty
OF them who have left this town to-day their way TO
America, seemed quite unconcerned at their expatraton
They were fine young men and women-admable specl-
Of the Irish peasant before famine had bowed his
frame or crushed his spirit" The emigration fund used
to be the savings of many years, and too often what
due to The landlord II is now, IN the majority OF cases,
supplied either have described, or by those who,
having received from strangers home,
now return it with interest, and the repayment OF
such loans amount, we are told, TO many thousands.
Such migration, il might be expected. would lind its
own level-that is, when the diminished numbers left
behind found they had longer too many rivals in the
quest of employment. But thus far the end fur
Their of than ever The Mars steamer" says Water
ford paper Of last Saturday, left quay yesterday.
taking with her three hundred and twenty OF our fellow
countrymen, all bound for the United States and Aus
uaa To Judge from appearance. the majority OF them
comfortable at home, but seeing prospect OF adj
vancing they have made the lar west the land OF their
adoption A Conmel paper assures US that whole
parishes preparing 10 leave that part OF the country
!. Within the las, ten days upwards of hundred and
fifty persons OF both left Clonme upon Blanconrs
long TO Waterford; and when add TO these. If
in power TO do 50, the numbers which have passed
either in their own or hired cars days, the amount
would be Incredible Such il s, however and where il
will end no tell The number OF letters from all
and dispersed all over the country IS amazing aud Is
calculated that ninety hve at least, out OF every hun
bred contain rem''ances 10 pay The passage OF either
one. two, three out of every family. Spring
work is very brisk and better wages giving and the
result is, that from the fight OF the people the scarcity
OF iaboers. and the advance IN The labor markets,
neither her Malesys recruiting officer, nor the sergeant
Of the don East India Company. though the latter have
lowered the standard, do business No idles, and
therefore no recruits.
Ii was to us no unreasonable anticipation that the whole
Irish race, imsusve. given to movement,
cnxing and atectonae, should abandon soil which the
history Of thousand years them is home for
them All the feelings Of family of race language and
religion that have hitherto kept the lrlshman at home,
now conspre with equal force TO send him abroad He
holds 10 The multitude either 10 stay TO go, and as The
latter is the fashion, he will fly obsnaely as be
fore he stood his ground Nor is any superstous and
iancu idea, but pain account OF facts that Just now
indeed the very time that this long husbanded store OF
people should be poured upon the hitherto desert regions
Of the world That Providence which, in lis inscrutble
ways, has lately warned the Irish people in terrible
from their ancient home, invites with equal kind
illness TO homes 10 rising Industries, 10 fertile held
TO golden strands, TO frightening roa! upsart cities in
muir with industry and, comparatively with the sad tenor
OF human life, "sing with gladness as just now, when
the reservoir OF irish population has sud- nly burst
its strong dame and flooded the world Ii is impossible
not 10 connect two things double and Apostle We
aware that in speaking thus cooy and sunmarlly OF
national expariaion, we incur the suspicion OF hard
hearednesS as If only too glad TO the backs
of the Irish and their place desosle On the contrary
long there appeared sufficient certainty OF employ
men al their journeys end, have always deprecated
Wholesale schemes OF emigration But the suspicion al
together is only the relic OF a exploded prejudice
II IS better for of strength and spirit tina, he should
leave country which, for one reason or another, does
not afford him proper opportunities, and go where the
world more open. But the change, alter all, - from
field OF door labor another The plough and the
spade the pick and the shovel, much the same in
Missouri IN UpperaTy The only difference being that
in the former place the aborer has enough for himself
and bis family, and in the latter has There mi.
graons that are indeed change. When the English
laborer is driven into the heart OF the metropolis
manufacturing iown-wben The child is suddenly uaIs.
| ferred iron hedgerows and cottage gardens : from
brooks aud rural sounds, the jar of machinery and
the whrl OF The spinde-that is indeed change and
such a change, in form other, is suffered
at one Time or another, by a large portion Of The
English and Scotch population. Compared with this,
what Is the hardship OF passing from turi cabin 10
a log hut, or from potatoes 10 Indian corn No. We
should not talk thus composedy OF these vast and mo-
mentoOs changes not deliberately and strongly
OF opinion that al all events they for the good OF the
emigans themselves and particularly the Irish emgrans
II have any shade OF msg wing the subject tits for
those who remain at home.
j NAsHvILLr--Tbe Nashville Banner gives a pleasing
account OF the prosperity Of that beautiful city Popu-
glad record evidences OF the well being OF sister
cities, and have especial pleasure 10 copying what the
Banner says about Nashville, city with which New
Orleans has long been closely connected by many ties OF
interest and Affection and with which hope long
to have, by of great railroad, intimate
and important relations even, than hitherto. The Ban
ner says
II, tho Of Nae ros q in