Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-03-31
Pauper immigration.

Pauper Immigration.
We copy from the Baltimore Sun of this
morning, the following statement, showing that
three hundred and twenty paupers from Swift
zerland, in one batch, are about TO be landed
upon our shores, and that this precious batch
was forwarded to Havre, by the " Commune q
Niederaoyl" to be sent to New York.
The systematic movements offoreign govern
ments, to get rid Of their paupers and crimi-
nails, and to palm them upon the United States,
ought to alarm our people, and cause them at
once to come to the rescue Of our institutions,
through the efforts Of our American party. But
if our people will listen to the syren songs of
demagogues, who would lullaby them to sleep,
there is no escape to our country from the
fate, Of becoming the common seWer Of the
world! Will our countrymen open their
eyesp
Here is the article referred to:
"THE SHIP LOAD OF ALLEGED PAUpERs-It
was stated yesterday that information had been
received at New York that ship on her way
to that port with three hundred and twenty pau
pers from Switzerland. The information comes
from George II. Goundie, ESQ, United States con-
sui at Zurich, who writes, under date of the Sd in
slant, as follows:
~ have just been informed that the Commune
of Niederwyl, (Zofngen, in the canton of Argovia
in Switzerland, has been forwarding three hundred
and twenty Of their poorest people to the United
States They left few days since for Havre, with
the intention of sailing for New York
" Enclosed is an extract from paper which is
published in the same canton, and which fully en-
dorses it. 1t says:
"A few days since the Commune of Niederwyl,
district Zofngen, In the canton of Argovia, sent
three hundred and twenty Of their poorest people
TO the United States, in spite of all dd,nonition.'
:" Mr. G. says he has written to our consul at
Havre to ascertain the name of the vessel, and to
send it on to New York. He also states that an
other large company Of paupers will soon be
shipped for New York"
Instances of this kind are occurring weekly,
and have been, for the last twenty years. Our
cities and towns are rapidly filling up with this
class of population the evils are obvious to
all who are not wilfully blind, and the conse-
quences cannot fail to be deeply and perma-
nently injurious, to the physical, mental, and
moral condition Of our race. Well might
Thomas Jefferson, in view Of the inevitable
consequences of foreign immigration and for
eign influence upon our destinies, exclaim, "
can scarcely withhold myself from joining in
the wish of Silas Deane, "that there were an
ocean Of fire 5ettoesn this and the old World. y
Some twenty years ago, the celebrated Cap
tain Marryatt, of the British Navy, visited the
United States. He made tour throughout
the country, visiting every portion of it, and
romarking upon our condition, social and po-
litical, as people. Even though an English
man, in the service of the British Crown, and
not disposed to censure his own government,
he could not forbear, in view of the scenes he
had himself witnessed, to exclaim, Wat
cdrgOes Of crime, folly, and rscklesmess, do zoe
yearly ship of to America"
About twenty years have elapsed, since Cap
tain Maryatt made this candid admission against
his own countrymen. The evils have quad
rupled since that day. All Europe is now emp
tying her prisons and almshouses, and shipping
hither the scum, Of her population, and Ameri-
cans, aye Americans, are found, who denounce
all opposition TO such immigration
Gradually, but surely, are these classes OF
newborn American citizens, working their way
into the interior Of the country, South and
Southwest, as well as North and West BY
far the greater portion Of them remain north
Of Mason and Dixon's line. The northern
and western States are more cursed by their
presence in their midst than the South; but
hOp stands the South, on the score Of actual,
imminent, certain danger from the politi-
cal poUer and influence Of the vhoLe foreign
population
Is there, or is there not, a fixed and unalter-
able antagonism Of opinion, universally pre-
vailing between the whole Irish population,
and southern slave-holders1 As a mass, are
not the European immigrants opposed to the
institution Of slavery When half million
Of immigrants are annually thrown into the
country at the present day, with prospective
increase which will reach million of souls
per annum within ten years, are the South
to be told that they need have no fears from
this immigration
With an annual immigration equal TO the
whole population Of Louisiana, and more than
that ofMchigan,-a number sufficient to form
a large State, and with a prospective increase,
which would, within ten years, make in the
aggregate, twelve or fifteen such States, what
would be the condition Of the South even un.
der the census Of 1902 Would they not be
in hopeless minority And what might be
the fate Of their peculiar institutions under
the census of 1902 Before that gear, II the
tide Of immigration should continue to in.
crease, without check, the foreign population
Mould, under the propectire Increased ratio,
equal the native population Is not the whole
country, and the South more especially, in
terested, deeply interested, in checking immi-
grafton, and in excluding all future immigrants
from the pollsp
This is the American" policy--this is the
purpose ofthe " American party"--whilst those
who oppose us are for opening wide the doors
to all the world, and even admitting foreigners
at once 10 the polls. upon their taking the oath
Of allegiance This monstrous proposition