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day. To the emigrants themselves it may be
regarded asa passing from death to life. II
will benefit Ireland by reducing a surplus pop
ulation, and restoring a sounder and juster re-
lation of capital and labor. It vii, benefit the
laboring classes in England, where wages have
been kept down to the starvation point by the
struggle between the native population and the
inhabitants of the sister Island. This benefit
will extend from England to ourselves, and
will lessen the pressure of that competition
which our labor is obliged to sustain, with the
i'll paid labor of Europe. While the constant
influx into America of stout and efficient hands
supplies the greatest want in a new country,
which is that of labor,-gives value to land,
and facilitates the execution of every species Of
private enterprise and public work.
II am not insensible tothe temporary inconve-
niences which are to be offset against these ad-
yantages on both sides Of the water. Much
suffering attends the emigrant there, on his
passage, and after his arrival. 1t is possible
that the value of our native labor may have
been depressed by too sudden and extensive a
supply from. abroad; and it is certain, that our
asylums and aims houses are crowded with for
egn inmates, and that the resources of public
and private benevolence have been heavily
drawn upon. These are considerable evils, but
they have perhaps been exaggerated.
ut must be remembered, in the first place,
that the immigration daily pouring in from Eu-
rope is BY no means pauper immigration
On the contrary it is already regarded with
apprehension abroad, as occasioning great
abstraction of capital. 1t is attended no doubt
with an influx of foreign pauperism. In refer
ence to this, believe your system of public
relief is better here in New-York than ours in
Massachusetts,, in which, however, we are ma
king important changes. It is said that, owing
to some defect in our system or its administra-
ton, we support more than our share of needy
foreigners. They are sent in upon us from
other States Newly ork, as the greatest sea
port, must be exposed to similar burden
However the evil arises, it may no doubt be
mitigated byjudicious legislation;aad inthe mean
time Massachusetts and Newly York might do a
much worse thing with a portation of their
surplus means, than feed the hungry, clothe the
naked, give home to the stranger, and kindle
the spark of reason in the mind Of the poor
foreign lunatic; even though that lunatic may
have been, las l am ashamed for the credit of
humanity to say has happened,) set on shore in
the night from a coasting vessel, and found in
the morning in the fields half dead with cold,
and hunger, and fright. fr.
''But you say they are foreigners Well, do
we owe no duties to foreigners? What was the
founder of Virginia, when poor Indian girl
threw herself between him and the war club OF
her father? What were the friendly savage-it
we must call him so, met them with the salu-
ton of welcome Englishmen?' 'They are for
eigners;' sand suppose they are. Was not the
country all but ready year or two ago to
plunge into conflict with the military despo-
tism of the east of Europe in order to redress
the wrongs of the oppressed races who feed
their focks on the slopes of the Carpathians,
and pasture their herds upon the tributaries OF
the Danube, and do we talk Of the hardship OF
relieving destitute foreigners, whom the hand
of God had guided across the ocean and con
duct to our doors? .''' 81. b, q
'I am not Indifferent to the increase of the
public burdens; but the time has been when
have felt little proud of the vast sums paid in
the United States for the relief Of poor emf
grants from Europe. 1t is an annual sum, |
have no doubt, equal to the interest on the for
eign debt of the States which have repudiated
their obligations. When / was in London a
few years ago, l received a letter from one OF
the interior counties of England, telling me that
they had in their House of Correction an A
merican seaman Tor a person who was both
pauper and rogue. They were desirous OF be-
ing rid of him, and kindly offered to place him
at my disposal. Although he did not bid fair to
be very valuable acquisition, wrote back
that he might be sent to London, where he
could be SHIPPED by the American Consul to the
United States. l ventured to add the sugges--
ton, that if her Maiesty's Minister, at Wash
ington were applied to in q similar way by the
-overseers of the poor and wardens of the pris-
ons in the United States, he would be pretty
busily occupied. But really felt pleased, at a
time when my own little State Of Massachusetts
was assisting from ten to twelve thousand des-
titute British subjects annually, to be able to re-
lieve the British Empire Of the only American
pauper quartered upon it."
Note.--In an instructive article relative to
German emigration in 0l5o HubReJ''s JahrbUch
FIR TolksacirthschGtt und Statjstk, the numbers
who emigrated from Germany from 1916 to
1851 inclusive, are estimated to have amounted
to an annual average of Sc, 676 and the a.
mount of capital abstracted by them from the
country to an average of 1880, 333 rix dollars
tabout fifteen millions Spanish dollars per an
mum. ruU 50 ~ --r-,
A noted chap once went into the sanctum
of an editor, and INDUCED in q TRADE against a
citizen, with whom he was on ''bad termS.' 81
wish said he, 'that you would write very Sc
we're article against B, and put in your
paper" ''Yery well" was the replJ, and after
some conversation the visitor went away. The
next erning he came cursing into the Office in
a violent state of excitement. "What did you
put into your paper? | have had my nose pull
lad ood baan lyickad tuico GIT ,,r,to a Sayara