Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-24
WASHINGTON, D. c.
WILLIAM M. BURwELL, Editor.
Foreign Pauperism.
FRIDAY, AUGUST "a, 1866.


chargeabe upon public charity. We doubt
whether any other practical fact shows more
clearly the innate independence of the Ameri-
can character, or the helpless and seryile con-
dition of the serfs of Europe. Our correspond
ent has also shown the large amount Of con-
tributons required at the hands of our
citizens.
Whilst we think a nation should no more
keep an account Of its charities than an indi-
ydual, but should give to the needy, without
inquiring whether they belong to the tribe OF
Benjamin or Manasseh, it is yet natural that
we should prefer every nation to maintain its
own restitution More especially, when the
rulers Of Europe have worn out the best years
of their subjects, and exhausted their earnings
by taxation, does it become the duty of our
government to demonstrate against system
attic expectation of those who are too poor to
support themselves, to become charge upon
the capital and industry Of our Republic.
There is no doubt but that the expectation
of paupcrs from Europe has become regular
branch of corporate policy, greatly encouraged
by the despotic enemies of our free institu-
TONS And it will require but little retiec-
ton to perceive what a valuable relief this
system must be to the atmospheric pressure
of taxation which weighs upon everything
and every person in Europe.
We have no means of ascertaining the
whole annual cost to the United States OF
maintaining foreign pauperism. But our accu-
rate correspondent has informed us that the
cost to the city of New York alone, was in
1853 5000, $40, whilst from 1850 to 1853 the
number of foreign paupers maintained had in
creased from 4O,580 to l63,9 1856 Let us re-
mark, in passing, that the public appropria-
tons for common schools in the State of New
York, is about the same sum. Thus we see,
that to support the INDECENT Of other co'a-
tries, ace pay as mach rs to educate tie chit
drep If our ownt But here is perpetual
and rapidly increasing duty on foreign pau
pers for which there is no return Ought it
not to become subject of national remon-
STRANGE? Ifa pauper in England remove from
one parish to another, the event is attended
with as much formality as a foreign negotia-
ton. If an unfortunate become i'll, and
chargeable upon parish to which ne does not
belong, cases are stated in which the misera-
BILE leper is trunded by the authorities to the
boundary of the last parish from which he
came, then transferred in the same manner to
some other, and SO sent from hand to hand,
like counterfeit note, until he literally dies on
the road
Such is European vigilance yet Europe ships
annually to the United States an indefinite and
increasing army Of indigents, who are dumped
out on the wharves of our cities, and charged
upon the industry of our people. Of course
this takes off a tax upon the people Of Europe,
and buckles it upon the people Of America.
What financial arrangement, what n card it
must have been in the budget Of that corporate
body which first devised this tax upon Ameri
ca, and how it must have been praised by the
ministry who thus effected what Lord North
and George the Third couldn't.
An annual, perpetual and increasing tax of
million of dollars upon the United States,
for the support Of European indulgence. What
stroke of fiscal policy! How must those
who hate freedom rs the devil does holy water,
chuckle and nudge each other at the idea of
/" Great Republican Almshouse," endowed with
the means, and supported By the labors Of
Anne rican freemen, TO receive the fragments Of
monarchical oppression. And then to think
Of that other great stroke Of policy. 10 ship
felons and conyicts here instead Of to Austria
liza, or to make this great homo Of freedom the
Botany Bay OF all Europe Despairing to
ov erthrow our institutions by force, they change
their tactics They hatter our national pride.
Mr.. Buchanan is invited to make speeches;
General Washington is graciously allowed to
hang in the same apartment with Prince Al
bert Mr.. Van Buren, is complimented, and
Mr.. Fillmore, because he wears q clean shirt,
complimcnted as the "politest American ever
seen" They call us cousins. The Edinburgh
Reviers think that Sam would cross the
Atlantic rather than allow the Democracy of
Europe to be destroyed by its despotism."
But, at the same time, Europe is secretly in
Producing its subjects to infect, to impoyerish,
and, IL possible, 10 betray US She has sent
the van Of invasion, she has sent dissipation
and weakness amongst US. Already has that
party which would not tolerate a tax upon
foreign labor, for the protection Of American
industry, advocated this impudent tax upon
American industry for the support Of foreign
psupers. Already has that anti-American
spirit taken the part Of the European against
the American, and thus viii the next steamer
gladden. the hearts Of despotism with the
news that it has planted at last in America a
disease infectious and fatal, which bids fair to
destroy the blessings or overthrow the power
Of the strongest citadel in which liberty has
ever taken refuge
Ii is plain this system of imposition upon
American industry, and this warfare against
American principle is the fixed policy Of Eu-
rope. Should it not be in some manner coun.
tcractedf Ought not our government demand
from the governments Of Europe some guaran-
tee against this charge, or some indemnity for
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