The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-13

Aeye ~ sight and promised assislanos, bat after
wards IL captain fearing ID st he would yitake his
nssssnes ~ dsviasing from his oosfse, pussued lii
Emigration nom Europe ana the Know
SIS Nothing Continuation.
tFrom the London Times, Oct 26l
A very sMan deviation from the existing course
g afhbs alsays seems strange and unacc0untabls.
Not many yearsseo the emigration from this c0un
Try never exceeded two or three thousand, ana II
raie Of million in three years he w,1ll have been
set down - madnan. We have lived 70 see such
epcediction II it ever was hazardcd, fal6lled, and
fer the lass AK Or seven years the tide II population
has directed i.sef to North Amsrica with IN impe-
What vasquits incredible because utterly unkao W.
only dozen years ago, Ia now law Of latnre. In
nct, We are witnessing one Of those mighty SCI
tlements left undone ct the desperation o( Nations
4 Gsat gunstream has set in from tho East t.
his eyes 70 the great social movements Of the world
might readily suppose that population always had
flowed - II BOW 6owr. Tho great author Of the
AINSgy" desc iees the argument Of probability
day BY day, see the ocean hcaying at certain inter
walls to cover tho sands. After many rcpetitions OF
The spectacle, prsdigous o. It might seem at first
u becomes nw. and is believed to DO . perpetual
recurrence. Suddenly there comes check. There
are irlegularitiss even in tho tides. But in the
tide Of population we have mentioned the check
Is no less than vast annual re-emiQrstion to The
Old Worid-a re emigration far greater than
tee whole number OF those WAC annually left
Europe for Americs thirty years ago. Strange
- II may appear, and ominous Of further and
greater change, os some people have thought it, we
must plead aloDgereyperence, and claim not to be
surprised There Is nothing really surprising that,
Of three hundred thousand persons going snnually
to America, ak, ten, or even twenty thousand
Ahould return to visit the Old World. Il assumes,
however, the appearance of q reaction, and, as it
has increased hitherto from year TO year. there are
people who conclude that ere long there will be as
many going one way as the other, and that the Old
World will thus cease to pap its ANNUAL tribute Of
But, L there is nothing surprising 10 this
novelty, how ID 1t to be accounted for The
We should think there are few people who do not
know something about the matter from their pri.
vate experience The love Of the native soil is uni
veYsal and ineradicable. and it would irdeed be
very aurprsing two million persons should leave
those shores In ten years without once revisiting
the land OF their fathers and Of their own birth and
education, either TO seek again settlement In il,
or to satisfy the desire Of the eyes, and return con-
tent to the land Of their adoption. We see how
man win remember with sentimental interest the
dulest, the most disagreeable, the most inhOspi
table place, If il be but his native soil. He will re-
tain oil bis life the picture Of the long, dull narrow
street. the homey maIke, place, the dark and pesti
lentlA marsh, the barren heath, the hungry shore,
and, worse than all, the vulgar suburb annually
bursting ont Of the smoke into fresh bricks and NOR
tar. He will revisit them il he can, only to be dis
appointed by the reality OF that which memory
had clothed with hues of its own. But even
In this country it is very rare thing for
man to lelinquish the land Of his adop-
ton, his new friends, his new home, bis new
employ ment his new schemes to return to those OF
his youth. Men are ashamed to confess themselves
trace their steps. They will not exhibE in the
scene Of their boyhood the failure with almost
every life 10 when compared with the hopes that
give 1t its first impulse. To these considerations
must be added others Of more material and prac.
til al class. Society soon closes and aLs up the
opening man has left behind him return 70 the
seat you haze left at spectacle, snd you ind
anOtner IN IT,. But . very small portion OF those
who have left Great Britain and Irellnd to try their
fortunes in America would find q place open for
them on their return. They would find friends de-
ported, homes destroyed, goodwill gone. services
oblterated, friendship chilled, and possibly their
very names forgotten. Hard. difficult and unkindy
as the new life may be, the old viii be found worse
worse in oil respects, and especially in thls that
II ought TO be better, and Is not
Some doubtless return, as ve have observed, just
70 Iesisit old scenes and old friends; some to parade
their success; few, perhaps, to resume, with their
newly acquired wealth. the hopes and pursuits they
were forced TO relir quish; very many to look out
their friends and relations and to take them back
to their new home. But we cannot believe tina
any considerable number Of people who have oncs
become acclimated to Q new and omen country
with ts free institutions, its rapid growth It's mary
opportunities and jts inexhaustible resources vii
willingly return 70 beagain crimpea and cabinei II
difficulties in the United States, and some Of the
new emjgfants may not be Of very robust, pushing
and cnterpriing class. Yet we do not see why any
French Immigrants need be driven back by thief
language We are informed is the rass, when there
are half . million Canadians speaking French,
enjoying institutions Of their own, and possessing
great weight In the government Of their colony As
for the Germas, il is Impossible they can be worse
on u the United States than they are IN Their own
districts IN their bands beyond the Atlantic, they
carry Germany with them. The Italians, we are
told, are making their way with their usual versa
4. Mnsy, and me young Savoyards have relin4esh
can be very few substantial reasons to induce any
yeppg lecota or arsian to yetrace his steps to any
part Of the Old World for oil over tais pars Of the
earth there Is poverty, Inequality, crowded trades
and professions. heavy taxes, military consclip.
tioD, and not the least evil, the chance Of war
the ambition ofprin es. On the other hand, there
is only one thing really on the other side to
rerel the emigrant, and that is the jealousy
Of the native Americans, A. they call themselves,
who profess to have no sympathy with the new
comers. Their ancestors were new men; but what
Of that2-they simply wish to refuse the hospitality
they have received. They found the United States
an advarc &c upon England, and they would leave
them in the rear OF Japan. The absufd title OF
" Know NothiDgs" taken by these people expresses
The irationsl character OF their opinions, and their
determination to listen to no arguments In point
OF fact the party is by no means new one. For a
whole &c neratioD that ia for thirty years at least
there has been fear Of the rude and impulsive
Of Ireland, and disposition to combine
seainst strangers. Such telling Is nothing less
than treason to the spirit of the American consitu
ton, and the genius or liberty itself, than which
nothing Is more hospitable and kind We feel very
SUI that any ombination aeains. strangers in the
United States must fan to the ground from The very
fact Of it's having no hold on The constitution the
histoiy or the prospects Of the country. AZ II must
prove powefess snd fall TO decay, 80 ae should tiok
new comersyeiy precipi.ate and fo5Iish II they
aov themselves to be terrified by it, Iasnsces into
az Abandonment Of thejr nc home.
Loss Of flsc iJssscs
LrTTiR FROM Mg. sAGUrL CrsAsD.
AT the present tina while he loss Of the Arctic is
anuiy fire. h in remembrance, the clIowio8 letter
fsom Mr.samue' CunaId WIN ha re1d wlt1 interest:
10 me EDITOR or TIE roSpoS TINES. 81
STA letter signed r. y. Weld appears in the Itpci
Al t.trx 41.4.