The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-06-06


The United States census of 1850 gives births and
deaths Of the white and free coored population in one col
umu without any separation.
As would be expected ii is that the excess OF births
deaths in the United States is larger than in any
other country and hence have hesitation in adopt
ing the percentage oannus increase of and thregh
the problem before stated The population in 1890 was
323l,9ao. Excluding all immigration, the increase of
population each year would be the of SO per
This increase added each year the aggregate Of the pre-
cedng year. down to 1850 will give us the population
the United States in 1850 it would have been
upon the know-nohing policy of excluding all i'm
migration. The calculation is long and tedious
one, but the result is automatically certain. see
appendix 1t is this the population in 1880 be-
ing a23l $3.50 and being increased alone by the
plus of births deaths would in 1850 amount to =
a55423 whites and ee-coloed persons But upon
ing the actual returns of the for 1850 find the
number Of whites and free-colored persons to be 49,
9s7573 1t appears, then, that if the knownothng pol
icy had been adopted in 1880 present population would
be 355423 instead Of its actual number Of l99s573-a
difference in population between the knownothing and
the democratic policy of l2632l50 Of this number those
of foreign BIRTH appears by the of 1850
to 224o5s leaving 1869 natveborn but descend
ants of foreign parentage Our population therefore, in
1850, made up as follows:
Native-born of unmxed blood 5423
Natiye-born OF foreign descent 33l 500
2,2405Sl
These astounding enable to discuss negibly
the effects of immigration upon national progress
in the great elements Of strength and greatness and
wealth and prosperity If immigration had been cut Off
IN Our in have haan obon
what it actually in 1920 Immigration, them has put
thirty years forward in this important element of ma
tonal prosperity Our increase in all the departments
of national progress has been in the exact ratio Of
our increase in population But for the influence Of
immigration the wonderful works of improvement which
have added much national wealth and prosper
ity could not have been accomplished. To thinMhssws
indebted in n i-ans a.or.~ er -
railroad and canal communication which cove. our
vast domain like network and furnish ready and profit
able facilities for realizing the benefits of the productive
energies and enterprise of every industrial pursuit To
this we indebted for the reduction of the vast wilder
Of the West and Northwest to the dominion of civ
cation and industry, swelling the amount of our annual
revenues increasing almost mitles extent our com
mercal wealth. and placing in the front rank of nations
MS an agricultural manufacturing, and commercial people
To immigration indebted no small degree for tho
rapid addition Of State after State the confederacy until
have SPAWNED the continent with more than double our
original number But it cannot be necessary to dwell
terng to our own national pride To appreciate them we
drawn and reflect upon the amazing contrast that would
now be presented with population little more than one
third of its present number This contrast will be better
ed
bright stars which illustrate the galaxy of States ex
plunged from our national banner Alabama, Arkansas
California, Florida Illinois, Indiana, Iowa. Kentucky, Lou
isiana Michigan Mississippi Missouri Ohio, Tennessee
Texas Wisconsin, Virginia, and New York These States
have free white population of twelve millions the amount
ofinceascresutng immigration Instead Of setting up
just claim to being the most happy and prosperous and
powerful nation the EARTH able command respect all
over the world, to maintain rights on sea or land
against any foreign combination and by the moral power
Of republican example to shake the hoary thrones Of
monarchs in the Old World we should be fourtb-rate
national power subject to constant dangers Of foreign
vason and poorly able defy the aggressons of foreign
enemy These results prove the wisdom of fathers in
ssng the attempts of the British King to prevent imm
grafton into the colonies and illustrate the soundness Of
the policy which has enacted liberal naturalization laws
and given encouragement to foreign immigration
1t cannot be said that the character of our population
has deecraed under the process Of the ntermngng Of
and blaeds hom iscss~son Does any nativc-born
citizen feel that he is the for having
of foreign blood coursng through his veins Are the ten
millions who have such blood possessed less energy less
enterprise less intelligence less love of country or less de-
vouon TO republican Institutions because their ancestors
came from Ireland, Scotland, England or France or
Germany and have mingled their blood with that of the
Pilgrims of the North the chvary Of the South? Are
they not thoroughly Amercanized and repubcanizcd
as the millions who foreign blood in their
veinsf The answers to these questions will put shame
the warfare which know-nchngsm ia waging upon the
policy of our fathers 1t not simply upon the
two millions and half Of oregn-born citizens duscd
throughout the Union, identified in interest with our in
sfntons connected by the closest ties with
citizens engaged in industrial pursuits which add 10 the
national wealth and prosperity dwelling mountains and
filing up valleys for our great internal improvement M
ling the forests and spreading the area of productive g
culture in the far West shoulderine their muskes .he
the tocsn Of war sounds and fighting dying brsyelv ON
the battlefield by the side of warfare