The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-15
From the Baltimore Republican.


II the fashion among certain politicians who are in
terested now in creating of blind panic represent
the emigration to this country political evil which
ought to be checked by direct Indirect system
laws Such men either ignorant themselves or take
advantage OF presumed ignorance in others II is NOT
possible that IL can be necessary say that the physical
and commercial greatness of this people depend upon m
population less than its system of laws The ltd,
republic of San Marine with its one town and four VII
lagos is the Oldest in Europe Its craggy mountain SID
filled with population, has nourshed free people since The
middle ages but il has spread its influence simu,
because both in territory and population it is wholly p
significant 1t is territory no less than lac which gue
greatness republic Ii is upon the rapid increase q
the population of that territory that the greatness of State
depends
1t is true that our limits have been greatly enlarged sincr
l7T5 but even then territory overmached in extent
the most considerable States Of Europe But what Vas
power The thirteen colonies contained population
100000 whites Suppose that the gates had then been
closed upon the emgrant population Of other lands what
would have been condition to-day 2 We could moi
have looked percentage OF increase much larger than
that of European States whose population has not been
much diminished by the tide of emigration Sweden had
population in 1910 of 2377s5l and in ls49 popua
ton of 2,433s05. Denmark had in 1910 population
of 925,si0 and III 1850 population of l402 84G Nor
way had in 1925 population of lo5l 3ls and in 1915
population Of 32s4Il 1t is not be expected thai
national growth would have far exceeded This
average because have selected examples countries
which have enjoyed comparatively speaking the blessings
of quiet government and of soil unmarked by any very
long-continued or destructive wars
Had we followed the ratio, should have been
to-day however independent third-rate military and
commercial power in the world That great western coun
try which is peoplng to the base OF the Rocky
mountains, and is studded with noble cities upon the
Pacific shore would have been yet haunt for the
I. n l,a,,a honp
by the pioneers of civilization, themselves less
savage than the Indian.
We owe greatness the influx Of the people of other
lands The hundreds Of thousands who arrived from the
year 1890 to 1920 the fathers of the generations who
now aid in sustaining national greatness and who
with us, have peoped the western sotudes and made The
shores of the Pacific stir with commercial life and
activity, Year by year they have arrivednot oyerwhem-
ing the land as with the rush of torrent the force Of
q deugebut coming the SOIL the showers Of yearly
ran making the wild and desert places bloom beneath their
influence Nay fever the Provdenceof God appeared any
work it is in the in which this current has been add
ed to the living stream of population While the
native citizens few, the emigants were yet mnre
srcted The force Of the current has been tempered to
the strength of the channels which to receive it. And
the mighty increase which occurred in the years ls4s
ls49 and 1885, the consequence of the political troubles
which then agated Europe did not take place until the
of population far increased that 1t
ecised possible disturbing influence upon its existence
The waters higher but the banks remained as firm
ever; and capacity and national influence in
creased by the caames which had fallen other lands
For ourselves rejoice in the progress Of this emgr
ton As the ancients hailed the birth Of a child IN
his fathers house. welcome each who is born into
our republican family. Every additional hand that strikes
the anvil among us--every foot that follows the
plough upon the western praires-every stout that
deves for the wealth of the Pacific shorelabors not only
for himself but for us and for the country of which
part The work the emigrant executes is in part our
possession the harvest he roaps or our subsistence the
treasure he wrngs from the soil is for commercial ser
vice. And far from looking with janndced eyes upon
the population which is flowing past doors in in
creasing stream and from shrinking from its rising tide
should watch its progress the Egyptians look upon
the flooding of the Nile It is blessing and not an evil