The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-02-09

holds good aS TO other cities We have no data BY which
TO estimate the large amount Of coin thar bows and
accompanies emigration TO the Uni,ed States and This !
an element Of arstrase Importance Arrest emigration
and the ars interest feel the blow win be that Of CON-
merce,
What emigration has done Cor agriculture the statistics
o. the western States win shsw Inc curious iaqurr
Every foot sfuacutvated soil that Is rescued or the par
poses az civilization by the teeming thousands that pa,
nto the wildsrneSs of the Car West made 10 add o H.
enormous prodac that have made this the grsnaFy q H.
world a6 . srsy oacr iatersst n every Sats y a. rs
because where these masses Of citizens DO PRODUCE M
consume giving 10 manufacturers market on the On.
hand and aiding 10 feed starving millions upon the Other
There probably no element that largely ana
the time eonvincingy, into the discussion q
the question Of the value OF emigration the United
States that which relates the public lands Hereh
subject worthy Of the pohest efforts Of the intellect Re-
gared from every point Of view, inspires the pro
found ideas and Ellis the mind Of the Gillian with sublime
ancpatons Of his eountrys greatness Indssouby con.
neeted with the question OF revenues !, suggests Us
bulwark against world In In peace promises 10
support government without taxation, and enOres
the great idea free trade with the nations Of the earth
In war furnishes with the protec, oasev,
against the invader Every year fills up panse u
the public domain and vet State after State is mCot
cred from the gloom and the desolaton OF centuries o. e.
and OF neglect other regions opened to the
ergics race startling all the peoples Of the gobewM
stories Of ilimibe natural resources The policy q the
government has fallen below the majestic dignity
this subject IN all its relations social and political C
w. however has II been considered belonging 10 that
class Of interests which look beyond the present and con
meet themselves with the future The following brief and
striking paragraph in the Presidents last annual mea
contains volume Of food for patriotic thought
During the last fiscal ycar eleven million seventy Aos
sand nine hundred and thirty hee a the public nd
have been surveyed and eight million hundred and nine
~ thousand and seventeen brought into market The
number OF acres sold is million thirty live thousand
hundred and thrty and the amount received there
for nine million hundred and eghty-ive thousand i've
hundred and thirty three dollars The aggregate
lands sod located under military scrip and land
selected swamp lands BY States, and BY locating under
grants roads, upwards of twenty three millions Of
The OF lands sold the previous year about III
millions and the sales during the two FIRST qunr
of the year present the extraordinary result Of m
and half millions sold, exceeding by nearly four millions
the sales Of the corresponding quarters Of the last
| year."
i II is not necessary that we should reace the history
emigration for the last twenty years and especially for the
last ten years to show how and BY whom these lands are
l
cheapens its public lands and peacefully treats with the
aborgines, the doctrines OF oreathers equally
respected and applied and the oppressed and down.od
den Of the old World hitherwards 70 help ne
Qf enlightened liberty Mese shores and 70 ind homes IN
tiemselres sciA omoea make them afrad Wchu,
fulfil ennobng duties ourselves and hold ont ennobng
inducements all iellowbeings We reduce our pub
lie debt tighten the burdens Of taxation 10 citizens open
the pathway religion and to civilization, where Cor hoa
sands Of years untutored nature rcigned supreme and
ward those who have fought battles against the
mon foe Who does how snch picture held up be-
fore the hunted and the starving Of ancient king
doms is like voice from God himself calling them hthe.
wards2 II il He who speaks in these wonderful and mani
fold evidences of His goodness and His glory And when
the emgrants come answering to u.s. the agents Of the
Supreme Ruler do they take from without giving in re
turn Do they aid to make the wilderness blossom
the dig the canato heave the pondcrous granite
from its time-worn cavcsto stretch the long line Of rail-
roadto pay taxcsand contend against enemies
home and abroad? But more than this Leaving the ma
tra advantages thus given the hard and returned
housandold upon the other to those who delight in such
calculations who will estimate the general advantage 10
those rational principles OF freedom and Of civilization and
Of law secured b these additions TO population
Exceptions indeed there to this rulsdeplorabe excs
tons And so there exceptions after the revolution
airy war among natiye-born people who rebeed In the
face Of sacred obligations and resisted the delegated
authority with the strong But the problem has been
fully and too clearly solved In regard to emigrans
this country Here all nations minge and make up race
the has shone upon and the feature that
towers most prominently in all the Satcsthat arrests and
converts fit does not denouncc and oyerwhem every ee
ment Of foreign tumut transported heres the feature
that when would be truly free they must be obedcu'
to the laws they themselves have made 10 respect
And this Is the rock upon which for fifty years popular
government has stood, and upon which II stands
stronger than This too, " the rock upon which aS
surd prophecies and fears have been shiVered /"
atoms.
The bigot the selfish demagogue, may choose
to extract apprehensions from these observations but We
advise him to adjourn his criticisms. We advise him
leave as legacy to the future his present prosecutions and
plots and there be little danger Of the Issue iof
he rH try bis theories now, he rest more 90
during basis than prescription and envy He mus
his standard higher than the secret cells Of mfd.
night schemcrs He raise bis voice Ia purer ainos
phere than that which exhaes from oath-boand orges
he may riot for day in the excitement resulting from
intoxicating prejudices and gtering promises But b
must oppose arguments 70 facts, truth 20 bstory g's
thoughts and practical benefits the solid aud inspr
ing record that hold up before his eyes Who cabna