The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-19
From The New York Times.
DECREASE OF IMMIGRATION,

months Than the past there viii be falling OF 10 1856 Of
some 10000 or 10000 in the number Of foreigners ar
irving on our shores This Is weighy fact and deserves
careful consideration from those who 10 business Or NOR
ala are specializing the future Of country Proba
biz 10000 Of those who stay home Germans; the
rest OF the deficit "a made up almost entirely d Irish II
each Of these immigrants had consumed spent - 10
New York lie passed through, il will make difference
next year the city Of 100000 10 income II each
had possessed in ready money the average which the
turns from Castle Garden show at Presennamey, about
ssOit would diminish the import Of specie into the coun
try By about rfern end helf nlioHs Of ooTs money
which is not even exchange but is much clear add
ton Of wealth. Then all these people products
they rent houses they cloths they our
corn and wheat aud rye beef and mutton, and fish
they buy our timber and brick aud iron and coal they
read our books and papers and magazines Setting down
the average fliying 81 week each man and
woman and child, which would be low estimate and
supposng that they At least all they BY their
labor we have oss next year to the producers Of the
country-to the farmers the grocers the builders the
cothers the house-owners, the brick-makers and coal
miners the editors and bookseersof seventeen millions
OF dollars these estimates be correct we have direct
loss next year the country ia this decrease Of immigra
ton ofoyer thirty millions n doiiars
We cannot easily appreciate this loss until take
corresponding destruction OF value in apparent
wealth. People do not readily loss aud gain great
that Garthing or penny duty pound Of some for
eign article imported Is immense loss to tsr own
pockets.
Texas was thought valuable acquisition, by many in
Its rich farms though we paid round price for il yet
the value OF all the farms in Texas and Arkansas besides
is greater than the value lost by this years decrease
immigration. New York and Pennsylvania boast them
selves of rich crops OF wheat but the whole worth Of their
crops if greater than ia 1850 would be tuo millions
short Of the worth Of those immigrants who stay
home for single year. 1t would seem fearful blow 10
the country IL BY war or fire. any calamity whole
exported manufacures these cherish which we have
been paying duties longshoud suddenly be utterly de-
stIoyed yet the loss would be four millions of dollars
less taking the value in 1854 than the loss this year from
impeded immigration The quick destruction Of ali the
-four and corn and the products of agriculture which
usually export which bring wealth to 50 many
thousands would be bat little greater than the desruc-
ton this year Of value imported by the immigrants ii
oneth I'd of the cotton crop of last year had been lost what
lamentations would have reechoed from one end Of the
Union TO the other! how many would have been bank
rupt how many would have felt poorer Or if the whole
lntian-corn crop last year of New England New York
New jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland and the
District Of Columbia had perished what Jeremad OF
mourning would have arisen To appoint a new fast
would have been the least which governors could have
done ie the first of these supposed los no greater
and the last is less than what shall silently bear this
year from decreased immigration. WIN not some good
know-no,hng governor institute fast2
The country will fs the deep injury done It's pros
perty by this dninuon Of immigration If it does
not its Every who tenement houses
the shpbuiider the shpowner, the cheap grocer the
butcher the railway companies the thousands who own
stock in them viii feel it. The householder will pay high
er soon for his carpenter his plumber his painter the
houaemisress must after time, give for her cook or
her aundres The farmer must offer higher wages to his
men, and put higher price his cattle his milk his
potatoes, and wheat. Less new land win be broken
and those who bave invested in western lots must be
disappointed ia their plans Business at the great de-
pots OF commerce in the West will be less active
because there fever hands to help it, Not SO MANY
railroads, or canals, or steamboats, hatboats will be
built because there is less travel over them and less labor
at hand to build them The of new cities of schools
churches, stores and dwelinghouses will be greatly in
creased because there fever women at higher rates
hach professional man must after time feel this the
client can pay less the churchgoer less the patieut less
High wages to aboring not ia themselves neces-
safy an advantage they depend their relation TO the
value OF food and clothing, and means of living With
fewer hands to labor in this country every article Of living
would be more expensive while the impeding and sopnage
OF business would not be compensated by the higher
to the working The welI-heiug of each class in
country like this depends the weheug of every other
If the workman gets 81 day who before got ST. he gain,
nothing If his bread and clothing double and he lose.
there just half the means for business enterprise
which were before There will &c les work for him and
all that be will cost more
Under this falling Off Of immigration viii cease some
ming OF that almost incredible spring OF enterprise and
prosperity which has thus far characterized our commun
es IL will thus be that this wonderful progress was
not mysterious blessing conferred BY an unexpanable
Frovidence nor altogether the fruit OF the old Scandiu
wan and Saxon blood II will be found not altogether
que 70 our rich virgin soil our wide territory or our
aeep rivers nor entirely Puritan industry or our
republican government our isolated position We
snail see thenperhaps late or perhaps after deem
preston OF every branch Of industry and commercetat
uese squaid lmoruted freshmen, landing in tatters or
nomespun these foreign cultural garlicky Germans with
tner nutbrown faces and broad shoulders these con-
oeited bngshmen and hairy Frenchnen and ont oebos
Scetehmen and sharp-eyed WeIchmen and rar-pick;po
Italians all had some part and no small part IN bu;Iap
up this grand structure Of prosperity We shall Ell
then-and that at no distant me--that we DEPEND on
them rs well as they that their hnrd-earned forms
and soyeregns their tough hands and brawpy muscles
even their very patience of drudgery and
work. are ai rich importations national wealth
shall then see in every dirty ship-load poured forth
upon our docks not 80 many ntruders or oilers or beg
CARS or dependents, but much Invaluable addition y
me riches OF the country and perhaps then also "a We
nave missed the ready ingenuity the cheerful toll the
ura TASTE the social happiness of these foreign artisans
a. we nave seen tha our country becoming ess bless
ing to humanity depressed and degraded than to tho Anglo
Saxon races we may be ready welcome the poor foreign
laborer with more humane aud broader charity fcl
ing that both pIarpd hy prov;l,p.o q. T.. =