The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-04-28

Agriculture. with its home pleasures ever In
vites man to be settled, and to stick to hit
habitation and that of his fathers. Financial
schemers, too, have laid their plots to circum
scribe and Law in chains mans industry, 10y
bidding him 10 have home markets only but
all in vain. Mans roaming spirit bursts al
these chains. and he claims all OF Gods fair
earth for his inheritance, oil men as his breth,
rem, all nature as the field of his genius, and
!; all the world as the market of his industry
and at no time in history has this tendency to
roam and wander developed itself clearer than
now. Steam has added wings to it, and IN
yentive genius is still at work TO render motive
powers still cheaper, and still more accessible
to all
Three hundred thousand human souls arrive
annually in the United States. Eight millions
of people we're last year carried upon railroads
in the United States Three hundred and forty
three millions of miles were traversed by them
and ten millions of dollars per annum are al
ready paid for these migratory vehicles alone
have not been able to lay my hands on any
statistics about passengers IN steamboats,, on
canals, and ON turnpikes and still less about
that humblest, but cheapest and most useful
mode of conveyance, whose inmates travel with
their own teams, who camp by the roadside,
who carry with them their Bible, who pray to
God in the morning and the evening with their
faces westward, with whom migrate their do
nestle administrator horses and their COWS
and whom their faithful dog bears company"
But not only America is being turned into a
great travelling caravan. Look over the world (;
grasp it at glance Is there not a great I'M
settling Of habitations?
Our country is now the Promised Land for
ali whom Pharaohs" Cypress and both its
Atlantic and its Pacific face seems to smile
welcome to all the wandering children of man.
The rulers of Europe and Asia have latterly
changed their policy. They used to dscour-
age emigration; now they encourage it. They
bid cheerful adieu to the tons of human bone
and muscle that annually leave their shores !;
of all their exports, they prize least their hui,
man flesh.
European Kings are now following in the
wake of Numidan princes. IL is true they
have quit selling their subjects for so much
gold but do they not, in refusing to do justice
to their subjects, drive them forth to other
lands as heartlessly as any negro king? Eng
land mocks the departing lrishman, France
POUNDS colonies at Cayenne, and In the very
place whence centuries ago, some OF its fore
fathers came from. Germany forms emigra-
ting societies, with its princes as presidents, to
accelerate, to guide, nay, to misguide, emigra-
| ton.
Blind idiots that they are With these hu-
man bodies and these human souls, wanders
away from Europe the lte-blood Of its strength,
its wealth, and power The hale and the
hearty the sprightly and the intelligent the
children Of restless genius and of plotting in
tellect, are driven from Europe to people
America. And, as n result, America rises in
production, while fertile Europe's laborers cry
for bread America is accommodating produ-
GERS, Europe accumulates consumers And
such is the very state of things which the
sO-called statesmen of Europe wish to bring
about.
Well, it is ell of a piece with their whole
financial schools and their entire political econ
omy. They call it protecting industry"
when they pamper to all-absorbing capital
they call it fostering commerce." when they
annoy it with custom-hOuses they call it
Securing mems rights" when they turn loose
upon society herd of soldiers and officials,
with authority to perpetrate most aggravating
wrongs. Why should they not call it "politi-
cal sagacity and sound political economy" to
turn hcartlessly adrift and to drive to America
the producers of its wealth
bllnu lutdbuhJlOn LOGS nOt every page Vi
history teach tho lesson, that to lose popula-
ton is to lose all Need do more than as
sert the truth, which historic geography de-
monstrates beyond dispute, that with man,
wealth, power, comfort and empire, has trav
elled Is not every day adding proof to proof
that emigration is weakening Europe, and inn
migration is trengthening America Is there
man so blind az not to see, that that North
A oh
unknown to Europe and Asia, and whose in
habitants were then sparsely distributed, will, if
immigration continues, soon be the master of
earths commeroe-the great Power and the
great centre in trade, science, wealth, and COM
fOrti
Europes statesmen used to try to chain up
their populations--now they go to the other
extreme. Their old policy was futile, because
there are materials in all populations for
whom their native countries are too small, and
who will and should emigrate, in despite of all
police regulations. Their new policy is worse,
however than the former-it is madness. Eu-
ropean cabinet ministers would smile to hear
me say 30. They would tell you shat they
know better" "that as their people emigrate,
thcy find reliefn answer their relief is but
a momentary dream the ultimate and not
very distant result is a.stiff, torpid and lethar
gic reality War has cost Europe much HUI
man blood, and it has retarded its progress
but not half 80 much as emigration
China il said to butcher, from time to time,
without mercy, a. matter OF state policy, de-
fenceless children, and thousands of her people
IL this be true, it is at least wOrldly-wlse pol
| ICY compared to that Of England England
| sends abroad her Scotchmen lrishmen, and
| Welchmen, and she thinks she is founding
colonies. With every such colony she il
raising for herself rival. "Dead men tell ne
tales, is the robbers policy. What hinderi
| European statesmen, to whom over popuatior
is such bugbear, to act upon the Chimes
doctrine, which says that dead men carry
away no property, they take no science with
them, and they therefore never become rivals.
But this country, too, has men in it who tea
over-population. 1t is the Same shallow preju
dioe, only in another form. Europo's kings ar
glad to part with population; our nativists ar,
afraid to receive it. With tho latter, freedom
dwells only in forests They think that liber
ty is confined to an accidental race. The An
gIo-Saxons arc with them. politically, what thu
Israelites have claimed to be reigiouSig. An
gio.SaroniSm , the humbug of our day, as ala
grand nation" was that of '92 in France, and o.
the days of the Empire How small is the ba
sis out Of which greatness is manufactured, ant
with which mems ears are tickled to max,
them shed blood
Anglo. Saxonism mixture of two small
tribos of European aborigines IL is to ,oly,
the riddle of, English and American greatness
} Let us briefly recspitulate the history of th
vaunted Anglo-Ssxon blood The Ang los anC
the Saxons amalgamated. The two, with thu
Britons, amalgamatcd. The Romans have alsc
had foothoid in England, and they have, t
some extent amalgamatcd. The four were
beat by tho Scandinavians and they again
amalgamated. The five were beat by the Nor
mans, and they again amalgamated Nor will
any proud Anglo-Saxon deny that there is con
siderable Celtic, Scotch, and PictiSh admixturt
with it and this mixture Of Anglish, WEIGH