Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-11-14
THE CAUSE OF IMMIGRATION.

If our foreign population will calmly mruse
the following extract from very sensible arti-
Gle recently published in the New York Express,
we doubt not they will readily assent to itstruth.
Nor do we hesitate to assure them that we en-
dorse, fully and entirely, the sentiments therein
expressed as those cherished by the "Ai1erican
party Were it not for American demaSogues,
who seek only to promote their own selfish
ends, it is our deliberate Judgment, thathot one
foreigner in twenty, and perhaps not bne in
thousand, would desire to exercise thu right of
suffrage, but nearly all Of them would be con-
tent to realize the hopes and expectations which
prompted them to immigate, so trulyset forth
by the Express. Demagoguism IL tho great
curse Of this age.
There is truth and force in every sentence Of
the article referred to- and we present 1t for the
perusal and consideration Of our foreign popu-
lation, in the firm belief, that theywill finally
trace to their proper source, all thedificulties,
and all the animosities, which hake been en-
gendered between them and our natiye-born
citizens (
If our foreign-born populationwill but dis
card demdgogues from their confidence, and
seriously ponder upon the article which we
subjoin, we shall have reason u believe they
will, ere long, more justly appreciate the princi-
pies and measures Of the American party.
aTho German, who leaves his home on the
Rhine, or the Elbe, or the Wcseg or who comes
from the mountains and hills Of Switzerland, comes
here not 10 vofe and nobody canhonestly pretend
that he sacrifices his own loved land flor who does
not love his native land y for any such imagna-
ton but he sacrifices home, mother, brother, Sis
ter solely TO better his condition, He wants bet
ter wages, better bread than he has at home, more
meat some of the luxuries Of Life, better clothes
silk dress for his wife, perhaps or lace collar, y
may be-but, above ALL some security for the future,
| that when old age comes on, poverty and pen
ury are not it's attendants The Irishman loves
his home--it would be a.scanda to say he did not
The green hills and the grcer valleys OF Erin are
| dear TO him, and make his heart thrill, whenever
he hears Of them; but he is weary Of his perpetual
struggle between life and deathof his potato, and
his potato only--his rents that absorb all he car
earn, and his hut half under ground and half above
ground. His brother writes home, perhaps, that
he can earn daily twice or thrice as much in Amer
| lea as in Ireland--tbat meat can be had here
daily-that houses here are of timber, or OF brick
and above ground--and that he is sure of a safe
comfortable, and, il prudent and wise, almost Q
luxurious livelihood. The women send back home
TO their sisters how well they can dress, how well
they can live in our kitchens and our chambers
and what high wages they bave--and hence all
Ireland and all Germany, not wen of at home are
leaving TO come to America
"But what do they conc for2 10 potef We
never heard that reason givenl Voting Is a lux.
ury not thought Of on the Rhine, the Weser, and
the Elbe, or the Jifey, or the Shannon. Voting
Is the first lesson taught foreigners by our dcma
gogues here. II Is the first prize held up to them
when they reach Staten Island and II follows them
to Wisconsin, Iowa, and everywhere else. ~