Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1853-06-10

wo centuries ago and a part of that nnnher
If planters Of Preach descent in Louisiana, are
al that is left 30 bear living witness to the
lInazlng fact, that not a century ago France
was the mistress of the better half Of North
America
1t vas on the Atlantic Coast and in the
Colchics originally planted or soon acquired by
Or gland, thatthc great work of the seventeenth
century was crforncd-slowiy, tosomely,
A mighty work for America and
of which even we, fond and proud Of
it as we are, do but family guess the magni-
tude :"
The growth of the colonies and the founding !
Of the great American Republic is sketched |
in some condensed para graphs, from which we
should be glad to extract, but must pass on 10 !
the effect which the opening Of this, 1.-THE |
broadcst region that ever was made accessible
TO human progress, want or adventure, llp i
upon the people Of Europe.
II is this which most strikes the Eur .,noon
Imagination the old world is nearly all appro
prlared for individuals. There are " blic do.
mains in rhoSt foreign countries, b. It of com
pnratT",y small amount and most forests
WIZ. this exception, every acre r # land in I'm.
rDr = is private property and ri such countries
rs Engiands the Netherlands. France. Germ,-
ny and Italy what litde is sold, Is sold onlv e,
high price presume the nunhcr of land
holders in Eng md Is far less than II me
State of New York. In the catysa nf tho
French revolution, the and has been greatly
divided and sub divided in FraGse and in Ger
many and now is h~iI IN small farms: bu,
owing TO no united quantity Of purchaslbe
l'Nis, these farms when sold are sold only at
high prices. Generally speaking the mass Of
| tbs inhabitants IN Europe regard the ability to
| hold aud occupy consd ?rubc landed prouer-
! ty, as the summit of human fortune. Thc slr-
! gcslion that there is country beyond the
ocean, where fertile land is to be purchased in
any qnanllv, at a dollar and a quarter per acre
aud that dollar and quarter To- be earned IN
many parts Of the country BY the labor Of II
single day, strikes them Ii e the tales of Aad-
dn'> lamp or Ali Blha's cave. They forget
the costs and sacrifices IF leaving home-the
ocean to be travcrsed-the weary p,rriinrge
IN the land of strangers atler their ARRIVAL
! They see nothing with the minds eve but the
'iGn of promise; :" they reflect upon nothing
/ but the fact that there Is region on the earl's
surface" where few days unskllcd labor will
purchase the fee simple Of an ample farm.
The result is, the unprecedented emigration
which is drawing from Europe, considerable
part Of the population, and gradually dcpopu-
lating Ireland.
Of late years, from three to four hundred
! thousand GmiEmnts are registered at the sever
al Custom Houses. as arriving in tins coun nv
IN the course Of the year. 1t i probable that
a third Is many more enter hv the Canadian
frontier. Not much less than two millions o
cmgmnIs are supposed to have entered the
I nted states in the last ten vculs 4: and il is
tl,II. tod hat
day in the United States five millions OF per-
sons who have en.igratcd since 1890, and tneir
! descendants.
After drawing a striking and eloquent ra,1i-
lei, or rather contrast, between this flood Of
emf ration. and the ovcrrunnno Of the Roman
Empire by the armed migration Of barb lrous
races, Mr.. Everett goe5 on to state some most
curious and remarkable facts connected viii.
this subject, Of which our limits allow Us to
mention but one. That is that the emigration
daily pouring in from Europe Is though attend
ed by an Influx of foreign pauperIsm, by no
means paupcr immigration. "On the con-
trary it is all ready regarded with apprehension
| abroad, as occlslonng great abstraction OF
, capital. For instance, the numbers who cni-
grated from Germany from II IL to 81 ncu-
sve, are estimated to have have amo Ined TO
an annual average of 9GGi6, aud the amount
OF capital distracted by them from the country
to an average of l9,370333 rlx dollars about
fifteen millions Spanish doIlags) per annIm.
The address closes as follows:
am not indifferent to the Increase Of the
lf hurlruS hut h..,