The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-06-09

OF andhodes IN Ing ls lar iess than the State Of
New York. In the course Of the French revolution the
land has been greatly divided and subdvded in France
and in Germany, and Is held ia small farms; but.
owing 10 The limited quantity Of pnchaseahe land these
farms when sold are sold only at high prices Generally
speaking the mass OF its inhabitants in Europe regard
The ability 70 hold and occupy considerable landed
property as The summit o human fortune The sugges-
ZION that there is counIy beyond the where Ter
Tile land IS 10 be purchased. in any quantity =. ao
aud quarter per acre, and that dollar ana quae'
be earned IN many parts oil The country Dy Tue aool VI
single day, strikes them The tales oil Aladn dP u
AL Babas wond strike II we thought ihey were
true IApnlanse They forget the costs and sacII1ces
OF leaving home-the ocean 10 Dc HdveIseu-me wea}
pilgrimage in the land OF strangers alter iner ARRIVAL
They see nothing with the minds eye but The land oil
promise they reflect upon nothing but the fact thar
there Is region on The eanhs surface where few days
unskied labor will purchase The ee-slmple OF an ample
farm lApplanse -
Snch an ATTRACTION would be irresistible under any
circumstances 10 The population Of an old country, where
as have Just said, The land is all appropriated, and
be purchased only any consde rabe quantity at prices
whichp lis acquisition beyond the thought OF the
But this is but halt The tale Il must not be forgotten
that in this ancient and venerable Europe, whose civil
cation the growth OF Two thousand years, where some
OF the luxurious renements OF life carried 10 per
lection OF which we have scarcely idea in this county,
considerable part Of The population, the most
prosperous regions, pass their lives in state but one
remove from that OF starva,Ion, poorly fed poorly
clothed poorly housed, without education, without po
zeal privileges, without moral culture. The average
wages OF The agricultural laborer in England Were esl-
mated year ago at % Cd sterling (about 50 37i) Per
week. The condition Of the working population on The
continent OF Europe is in degree better, ii good
They eat but little animal food either in England the
continent. We form romantic notions distance of
countries that aboundin wine and oil; but in the best
governed States OF ltalyin Tuscany for instance-the
peasantry, though they pass their lives in the vineyard
and the olive orchard, consume the fruit of neither
have seen the Tuscan PEASANTS unable 10 bear the cost Of
the most ordinary wine from The vineyards in which their
cottages embosomtd, and which be bought al re-
tail Tor cent the flask, pouring water the grape
skins as they come from the wnepress and making that
Ever and anon some sharp specific catastrophe gives an
intense activity TO emigration When the reign OF terror
was snthraned N France and when everything in any
way conspicuous, whether for station, wealth, talent,
serviceof every and OF either SEXTON the crowned
monarch 10 the gray haired magistrate and the timd
maden-was brought 10 the gnoline, hundreds of thou.
sands emgra'ed al once IRON the devoted Kingdom The
commissions OF San Domingo drove most of the European
population OF that island 10 the United States But, be-
You'd everything else which has been ssed in modern
times, the famine which prevailed few years since in
Ireland gave terrific impulse to emigration Not less,
probably Than one million of her Inhabitants left her
shores within five years The population of this island,
as highly favored in the gifts OF nature any spot the
face OF the eah has actually diminished more than one
million eight hundred thousand since the famine year
lLondon Quarterly Review for December, 1851 D. 1911
the only example, perhaps, in history vi similar result
IN country not visited by foreign war or civil COW u-
SION The population ought, in the course Of nature to
have increased within ten years by at eas, that amount
and in point OF fact, between 1910 and 1850
population increased by more than six millions
Tbs Prodsous increase OF the population OF the United
States IS partly owing to the ems ration from foreign
countries which has taken place under the influence OF
the causes general and specific TO which have alluded
Of late years from three to four hundred thousand
grants are registered at the several custom houses
living in. tins country in The OF the year II is
probable tina, third many enter by the Canadian
frontier Not much less than two millions of emigTants
supposed 10 have entered the United States the last
ten years and it s calculated that there living al the
present day in the United States five millions of PERSONS
foreigners who have emgrated since $780, and their de-
scendants.
There is nothing in the annals OF mankind TO be CON-
pared to this bul there series of great
which may be contrasted with IT, In the period OF a
thousand years, which began about three four hum
dred years before our Saviour, the Roman republic and
empire were from time to time invaded by warke
from the North and East, who burst with overwhelming
force upon the South and West OF Europe and repeated
y carried desolalon 10 the gates of Rome These null
ntudnous invaders were not armies OF men they were
IN reality nations OF hostile emgrants They came with
their wves-With Their "young barbaTans-wilh their
Scyhian cavalry and their herds OF cattle and they
came with no purpose OF going away The animus ma.
nsndi was made up before they abandoned their eclad
homes. They lett their Arctic allegiance behind them.
They found the sunny banks OF the Arno and the RhQne
more pleasant than those of the Don and the Volga
Unaccuslomed TO the sight of any inviting than
the melancholy hr and the sunied birch, its branches
ghttenng with snowy crystals, brought up under eli
mate where the generous fruits are unknown, these
children OF the Noid were not so much fascinated as be-
wildered I'm the land OF the cron and myrtle !" they
gazed with delighted asonishmen at the spreading elm,
fesiooned with Faernan clusters; cuiched with kind
OF frantic joy al the fruit of the ig and the olive
at the melting peach, the luscious plum, the golden
dDRe, and The pomeganae whose tinted cheek outb
everything but The living carnaoa OF youthful love.
with grim delight the brood OF winter view
Il brighter day and heay OF hue;
Scent The new fragrance ofhc breathing rose,
And quail the pendent vintage it grows"
By The fortune Of war single detachmens and even
mighty armies frequently suffered defeat, but their place
was Immediately iskenby new hordes, which fell upon
declining Rome the amshea wolves in one of Catns
pictures fell upon aged buffalo our western prairies
The imperial monster powerful in his decepilude
would oen scatter their undiscplned army with his iron
tusks and aple them by thousands under his brazen
feet but ohen he turned back and bleeding 10 his
seven bills, tens OF thousands bowling from The
northern forests, who sprang his throat and buried
Their iangs IN bis lacerated side lAppause Wherever
they conquered-and IN the end they onquered every
wbere--lhsy established themselves on the soil-inyed
new comers-and from their union with the former in
habants the nations oil The south and OF Europe AT
the present day, for the most part their descent
We know but little OF The numbers thus thrown in upon
the Roman republic and empire in the of eight or
ten centuries They were, doubt, greatly
by the panic fear OF the inhabitants; and the pride of
the Roman historians would lead them magnify the
power before which their legions bad 80 often
quaed But when consider the diculty OF subsisng
a large number OF persons in march through an un.
friendly counry-and this at time when much OF Il Q
now cultivated portion OF Europe covered with for
ett and swamp am disposed thnk that the hosts
which Tor succession OF cehturles the Roman
empire did not in the aggregate exceed numbers the i'm
migration that has taken place 10 the United States since
1890 In other words an inclined 10 believe lha, with
in the last sixty years the Old World has poured in upon
the United States number OF persons great-wiih
their natural ncfeases Asia sent into Europe in these
armed mlgratlons of barbarous races
Here, of course, the parallel ends The that in