Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-06-20


their business broken up-iheir little nc
cumulaiens swept away by the bankruptcy
ofGovernments or the general paralysis otlhe
industry of the country--ihcir sons torn from
them by ruthless conscripiious-the means OF
educating and brin ing up their families con
sumed by disastrous emergencies. Terrified
by the recent experience or the tradition OF
these miseries. ihousan emigraie TO the land
of promise A, ling not merely before the PRES
ence, but the ..rumor ofwar," which the Great
Teacher places on a level with the reality.
Ever and anon some sharp specific catas-
frophe gives an intense ACTIVITY To emigration
When the reign terror was enthroned in
France and when every thing in any way
conspicuous, whether for station. wealth. tai
ent or serv .ce-of every age and of either sex
from The crowned monarch In the grey
haired magistrate and the timid maid. " as
brought to 10 the guiloline. hundreds of thou.
sands emigraied at once from the devoted
kingdom. The commissions of San Domingo
drove most of the European population of the
island 10 the United States. But beyond eve
~ thing else which has been witnessed IN mod.
eTn times, the famine which prevailed few
years since in ireland gave terrific impulse
10 emigration Moi less, probably, than one
million OF her inhabitants left her shores within
s years. The population of this islandas high
" favored in the gift of nature as any spot on
the face oflhe earth, has actually diminished
more than 500 600 since the famine yearf
the only example, perhaps, IN history. of
similar result in country not visited by for
eign wars OF civil commissions. The popula-
ton ought. in the course of nature, to have in.
creased within ten years by at least that a
4 t,.ffa hi IN
1850, our own population increased by more
than six millions.
This prodigious ncreas Of The population Of
the United States is partly owing 10 the lmmi.
grafton from foreign countries which has TAX
en- place under the influence of the causes gen
eral and specific 10 which | have alluded
OF late years from 800 600, to 100000 eui.
grants are registered at the several Custom
Houses Of the county as arriving IN the United
States in The course OF the year. 1t is proba-
bile that third as many more enter by The
Canadian frontier Not much less than g.
100000 OF emigrnn's are supposed To have en-
tered the United States IN the last ten years;
aud it is calculated that there are living at the
present day In this country 100000 oil per
sons foreigners, who have emlgfaied since
1896, or their descendants.
There is nothing in The annals of mankind
10 be compared with this; but there is a sarles
of great movements winch may be conlrasted
with it, In the period OF IA thousand years
which began about three or four hundred years
before our Savior, the Roman republic aud
empire wero from time to time invaded by
warlike races from the North and East. who
burst with overV helming force upon the South
and West of Europe and repeatedly carried
,lesuation to the gates oil Rome. These mul
inndinous invaders We're not armies oi men,
they were in reality nations Of hostile emf
grants. They came with their wivrs,--W
their "young barbarians." With their Seythlan
cavalry, and their heards of cattle; and they
Came with no purpose of going away. The
anin,us moncRH WIS made up, before they
Abandoned their ice clad homes. TLey left
their arctic allegiance behind them. They
found the sunny banks OF the Arno and the
Rhone more pleasant then these OF the Don
and the Volga. Unaccastomed TO the sight of
any tree more inviting than the melancholy
fir and the stunted birch, its branches glitter.
ing with snowy crystals; brought up under
climate where the geue Gus irutsarc unknown;
these children Of the north ere not so much
fascinated as bewlldered 'n the land of the
ciiron and myrtle" they gazed with delighted
establishment at the spreading elm, fashioned
with Faernian clusters, they clulchcd with a
kind of frantic JOY at the fruit of the fig Tree
and the olive;-at the melting peach, the lus
cious plum, the golden orange, and The pome-
granatc, whose tinged cheek out bushes eve
Iythng but the living carnation Of youthful
love.
With grim delight the brood Of Winter view
brighter day and heavens Of azure hue;
ScpD he npvf tu of he brpn linn
And qunh the pendent vintage as itgruws.
by the fortune ofwar, single detschmenis and
even mighty armies irequ, ntly suffered defeat,
but their place vas Immediately taken by new
hordes, which fell upon declining Rome,as the
famished wolves in one of Cataline's pictures
fall upon an aged buffalo in our estern p1ai
I:es. The imperial monster, powerful even in
his decrepitude,w would often scatter their undis
ciplined array with his iron tusks, and trample
them by thousands under his brazon feet, but
" hen he turned back torn and bleeding 10 his
seven hills, tens of thousands came bowling from
The northern forests, who spfang at his throat
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