Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1855-12-11
Pauper Immigration .-ConfcssiOns OF
The n. v. Tribune.

dlC H EADuAes
/ No journal is more active in its opposition
to the measures of reform proposed by the
American Party than the N. Y. TriJune. It's
opposition proceeds, in Il great degree, from It's
conviction that the Immigrants and the conn
try derive mutual advantage. clad anything
beyond Nedlam, it remarks, been consulted
ten years ago in our principles Of commerce,
immigration would now be Oue Million of hu-
man beings a year, coming to the country, aud
all finding work" From this ii is apparent
tnat the Tribune has no fears of the effect of
the immigration Of even one million a year
upon our Institutions. But it is an enthusiast,
aud will not see the dangers until obey are too
imminent 10 be ayerted
So much for the 7ri5mS'a partiality for for
cign immigration. Now let Us hear it on ihe
subject Of pauperism. Il has been denied Il at
foreign paupers are sent to our shores In the
Tribune of the Sd inst, we find the following
confession:
"No city in the worl-ccrhin!y none in Eu.
,ope-ha- twentieth part of the poverty cast ready
made upon her that New York has. We have no;
only the poor always with US, but me immigration
which has brought thousand a day from Europe,
nearly every one 60 this port has also brought "a,
amount Of pdaDeyism under 5hich L01,dou tro,ll
hare Lee, rdcked and Paris yeuoLafioujzsd One
thousand immigrants Il day landed on our wharves,
Think Of IL Compare it with all the autccedents
Of the growth OF cities with great ringing names,
aud cndcaVor to grasp such fact, that one thous.
aud human beings a day have crossed the seas to
reach this haven; and then make no wonder o! the
poverty and vice in our streets, and Of the couup-
tons which those ocose fellows the slave breeding
journalists, are ascribng TO us, because we have a
free community, and do not buy and sell the immi-
grants their arrival according to the precepts OF
/ Virginia Democracy
! The whole number Of Immigrants relieped or as.
sisted by The Commissioners Of Emigratio, during
the past gear, pds 1880, Of trlom no. $50 ,oere
cared for ia tbs city. And OF the l. 946 3qs imui.
grants that have landed at this port since May .,
1917, 6I7, OO0 nedriy third Of The ,aIole nun
Jsr, hare required aid; and 50 25O, 600 have been
expended for their beiefk Thus We have presented
90 gs In figures the cause Of the excess Of poy
otN 10 Ills city, and OF the dark side o immigration
70 rendered by cur perucioas national policy
Arc not these grave factsl early one hun.
dro8 and tUeRty thousand immigrants in one
year reqailing aid in The city of New York. and
t.r5 millions da8 quartsr o. dollars expended
for The benefit Of immigrants since May, ls47,
Is not this q tax upon industry Of which it
should De relieved 4 blIgh. pom Tie couu.
.y which should be ayoided2
w, append, for The Information of those who
have deaivd that any of the Governments OF
Europe have sent Paupers and criminals to
The United States, the following article from a
German paper, published in New York:
From The \. Y. stats zs.tuns, N5v. 80.
INHALATION AGAINST ruE COMMISSIONERS OF E,u.
cRATicS ur TuE GOVERNMENT oy GERMANY.
The action Of the Commissioners OF Emigration.
la sending back 10 Germany so many immigrants
VITO have arrived here during the past wear IN
state Of helplessuess from sickness OF OH age. ha.
ied 70 The following ordnance on tie part of the
government Of W grtcmburc:
lIh0sas, Il bas repeatedly occurred hat German
cmgnuts 70 America, and among them natives Of
Nurembrfg aho desired 10 retain bone on &C
count Of sickness, or iucaplcty 10 labor have been
forwarded 10 this country by the German Emlgra.
ton Society Of New York: and
Whrrsas Il Is desirable that those who once emf.
grated TO America, and especially those Who have
been transported thilher at the expense Of The
state or the oommunes, ard are unable, whether or
not u b. any fault ut their OVID 90 earn their sab
sistenee, should DOT return here % ue a burden 20
the state OF The commune (which 10 that case will