Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-06-11

Ever and soe sharp specific catastrophe gives an
intense activity TO emigration When the reign Of
enthroned Ia France and when every thing in any
way conspicuous whether for station, wealth. talent
seryecof every age and OF either sexfrom the crowned
monarch 70 the gray haired magistrate and the timd
malenwas brought 70 abe guilloDe hundreds Of thou
sands emg rated ut from the devoted kingdom The
commissions ~ Sau Z mngo drove most Of tue European
population OF that island 20 the United States But, be-
yond every thing else which has been Witnessed in modern
times the famine which prevailed few years since in
ireland gave terrific impulse to emigration. Not less,
probably, than million of her inhabitants left her
shores within five years The population Of this island,
as highly favored in the gifts Of nature any spoton the
face OF the earb has actually diminished than
million eight hundred thousand since the famine year
London Quarterly Review for December, 1851, 19l.
Inc only example, perhaps, in history Of similar result
in country not visited by foreign civil conyu-
sion The population ought in the course OF nature to
have increased within ten years by Mt least that amount
and IN point of fact between 1910 and 1885, po
| pulrsion increased by than six millions
TINS prodgious increase Of the population OF the Unit
ed states Is partly owing to the emigration from foreign
countries which has taken place under the influence of
the causes, general and specific, to which have alluded
Or late years from three to four hunred thousand emf
grants are registered at the several houses
irving in this country in the course of the year. 1t is
probable that third many by the Canadian
frontier. Not much less than two millions Of emgrants
supposed to have entered the United States the last
ten years and il is calculated that there are living the
present day in the United States Eve millions of persons
foreigners who have emgrated since $780, and their de-
scendans.
There is nothing in the annals of mankind to be COM
pared this but there is series Of great movements
which may be contrasted with it, In the period of
thousand years. which began about three hundred
years before Saviour the Roman republic and empire
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 repeatedly carried de-
ISOLATION to the gates of Rome These multudinous in
vaders not armies Of they in reality
tons of hostile emigrants. They with their wives
with their young babarians with their Scyhian ca
4 of cat thew
purpose OF going away The aninaHs maaead was made
up before they abandoned their iceclad homes They
left their Arctic allegiance behind them They found the
sunny banks Of the Arno and the Rhone pleasant
than those Of the Don and the Voga Unaccustomed to
the sight OF any tree inviting than the melancholy
fir and the stunted birch, its branches gtterng with
snowy crystals, brought up under climate where the
generous fruits unknown these children of the North
much fascinated bewildered Sin the land
of the ctron and MYRTLE they gazed with delighted
constituent at the spreading elm, festooned with Faer
nian clusters cluched with kind Of frantic joy at the
fruit Of the fig tree and the olive at the melting peach
the luscious Plum the golden orange and the pomegra-
nate whose tinted cheek outblushes every thing but the
! living carnation Of youthful love-
| With grim delight the brood Of winter view
a brighter day and heavens OF azure hue;
Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose
And quaG the pendent. vintage as it grows.
By the fortune Of war single detaehments and even
mighty armies frequently suffered defeat but their place
was Immediately taken by new hordes, which fell upon
declining Rome the famshed wolves in one OF Catln
pictures fell upon aged buffalo in Western prairies
The imperial monster powerful even in his decrepitude
would often scatter their undiscpined army with his iron
tusks and rampe them by thousands under his brazen
feet but when he turned back and bleeding to his
seven hills, tens Of thousands bowling from the
northern forests who sprang at his throat and buried
their fangs in his acerated side (Appause Wherever
they conquered-and in the end they conquered every
wherehey established themselves the soil-inyited
from their union with the former iaha
bant the nations of the South and West of Europe at
tie day. for the most part trace 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 exaggerated
by the panic fear of the Inhabitants and the pride of
the Roman historians would lead them to magnify the
power before which their egons had often quail
ed But when consider the difficulty of subsising
large number of persons in march through an unrend
| ly country-and this at time when much of the now
cultivated portion Of Europe covered with forest and
swamp disposed TO think that the hosts which for
succession Of centuries the Roman empire did
not in the aggregate exceed in numbers the
that has taken place the United States since 1870 In
other words, inclined to believe that within the last
sixty years the Old World has poured in the United
States number Of persons great-wth their natural
ncreaseas Asia into Europe in these armed migra
tons of barbarous races.
Here Of course, the parallel ends. The chat in
vaded Europe TO lay waste and TO suhugate; tn
hosts that the Atlantic peaceful immigrants
The former burst upon the Roman empire and ny oft
repeated strokes beat il to the ground The Immigrant
TO America from all countries TO cast in their 10
with the native citizens and share with as this grea
inheritance Of civil and religious liberty The former
ferocious barbarian half clad in skins, speaking
strange tongues, worshppng strange gods with bloody
rites; the latter the children of the countries from
which the first European settlers of this continent pro-
ceedod, and belong, with 10 the great common family
of Chrisendom. The former destroyed the culture Of
the ancient world and it only after thousand years
that better civilization grew up from its ruins. The
millions who have established themselves in America
within sixty years. from the moment of their arrival
gradually absorbed into the Of the population con-
forming to the laws moulding themselves TO the manners
of the country and contributing their share to its pros
perty and strength. Applause.
Ii is curious coincidence that, the first mighty
the hostile immigration that burst upon Europe
before the time Of Saviour consisted Of tribes belong
ing the Celtic racethe remains of which, iden
tilted by their original dialect stin found in Brittany
in Wales in the highlands Of Scotland and especially il
relandso by far the greater portion Of the anc
friendly immigration to the United States consists of per
belonging TO the eryid, imaginative and too
often oppressed have heard in the villages
Wales and the highlands Of Scotland the gospel preach
ed in substantially the language in which Brennu
uttered his naughty summons to Rome and in which the
mystic songs of the Druids chanted in the depths
Of the primeval forests Of France and England in the
time Of julius Cesar 1t is still spoken by thousands o.
Scotch, Wech and Irish immigrants in all parts of tho
United States GApplause.
This great Celtic is one OF the most remarkable
that has appeared in history Wheherit belongs to that
extensive lndoEuropean family Of nations which, in ages
before the dawn Of history took up line of march in two
columns from Lower India aud moving westward both by
northern and southern route, finally difused itself
Western Asia Northern Africa aud the greater part
Of Europe whether others suppose the Celtic race
belongs still older stock, and was itself driven down
upon the South and the West Of Europe by the over
whelminp of ludo- Europeans questions