Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-10-25

Itber full Otooded, as in most of ireland, or
liz Ine Scotch Highlands, or modified by
other races, as in France, Spain and TIA
". OF the latter class, the Anglo-Teu-
ton, or the Anglo Saxon, if we must re-
tain common but incorrect word, is the
most conspicuous specimen that we can
choose from the great Teutonic or Ger
manic family, to which he belongs. 1t is
he who has given our country most of
its character and institutions. The
French on the north. with his volatile ma
ture the Spaniard at the South, with
his stern, impassioned zeal were not to
rule and the destinies of North America
were to be decided, chiefly by the race
that founded jamestown and Plymouth,
and gave language and law to our land.
But mark the interesting fact. AL
though the Anglo-Saxon was the most
conspicuous race, its people have been so
various in position and history in our
country, as to prevent them playing the
tyrant over others by too close consolida-
without their domination They have
the Teutonic family, like the Swedes,
Danes, Norwegiaus, Germans, and Dutch,
who at once confne their general tender
cies and check their pride.
So then we remark providential bal
ance between the races that make up the
American nation. A closer view reveals
TO US some interesting aspects of the two
classes who followed the Anglo Saxon to
America-the Irish and the German
The 1rishmen, so closely the Anglo-Sax-
on's neighbor originally, and the German
so nearly his kinsman by common Teu
tonic blood. The Irishmen, SO impulsive
as to be sometimes troublesome citizen,
is kept often within somewhat whole-
some control by Church influences, and
his impassionate nature is trained to a con-
servative order, which promises to act as
powerful check upon the ferocious So
cialism and Red Republicanism which are
invading us through recent migrations
from the European continent. There IS
something remarkable between the Irish
and the German Immigration, each of which
now counts millions on our shores. The
German brings to US in the best instances
great learning, warm, social feelings, and
domestic refinement, yet in far too many
cases he is less favorably represented, and
the last quarter or half a million that have
come over, seem infected with the widest
radicalism. Many of their two three hun
dred newspaper are gross and incorrect
in the extreme. Yet, of our American
Germany as whole, we must say, that
it is great blessing to US, enlarging our
wealth by its decided agricultural taste.
confirming cur freedom by its decided
Protestant tendency, balancing the, Celtic
immigration by its intellectual indepen-
dence and habitual pursuits, and promis-
ing at last to learn the thrift and quicken
the artistic taste and social feelings of the
Anglo-Saxon.
Now take all these circumstances toge-
thct, and we have certainly a most inter-
esting view Of the European races in Ame-
RIGA. There is room for them all, and
they are SO placed as to be natural help
and balancers. Il
The foreign element, if fairly under
stood, is not dangerous, constituting, as it
does, but eleven per cent. of our whole
free population; and if we add to this pro-
portion of residents Of foreign birth. all
direct immigrants, the probable number
of descendants of immigrants, the proper
ton will not be doubted. 1t will be seen
how wild the common estimate Of our for
eign population has been. A little up
ward OF 1000, 900 is the whole number Of
born foreigners, and little upwards Of
1000, 900 the whole number Of foreigners
and their descendants from 1890 to 1850. |
Won Raumer, some years ago, estimated
the German element at 4 600, 900 or s.
600. 900, and a popular lecturer with a
Hibernian tongue, estimated the born Irish
at 100000, and their descendants at
I, 100000.