New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-03
NUMBER 14s.
Immigration and its Consequencez.

-. P'' ~ uirecteu 10 lb nave little cor
, oeptioh o ., the extent to which immigration ha
] gone. The opponents Of the American ma
enafge that party with gross exaeperation, i
: ofoef TO iarther their own ends. Instead @
exsggs ration, have no idea that the tull tr1tl
has been told. And for this reason. onr reli
ance on statistical information is upon the cen
sus OF 1850. Between four and five years h . a,
elapsed, and Eve years Of American bistoyv i
not instrun, but century in American his
tory The census is, at best, imperfect Bu
with that census as authority the INCREASE a
foreigners is numerically alarming, and the1
character is more alarming than their numbera
In the statistics which follow. you must remem
Der that they we're taken in 1850.
| During period of ten years, from 1890 I,
1907, the number OF foreigners arriving ia thi
country was 50,0t 0, or 5000 per annum Ii
4 1874 the Immigrants amounted to only 5000
Ten years afterwards it increased to $3.50 II
| iSfl to lt1 JOY. In 1S48 to 100000 Ia 1856
to 1868 CAB. 1t may be put down this year al
nearly 100000
| What rapidity Of annual increase! In a
little more than fifty years from 5,000 to SOC, ,Oot
| per annum. # there be no restriction upon
paturaliZation-if there be no obstacle thrown
| in the way if, on the contrary, additional in-
centiqes be offered-if the prefer by the govern
/ ment of land to the landless be continued, and
If the man once landless, now a land owner, ia
to be allowed full rights Of citizenship az soon a
he sets foot on his hew found domain, who can
tell when or how this Immigration is to cease
more adfoit lure, more captivating bait to
dissatisfied European than the promise of land
could not be held out. He land. d.owuer! II.
whose ancestors had been tenants at will for
generations on the soil of his master. Land
without money and without price! Land-the
ownership Of which, in Europe, separates the
gentleman from the pleibian! When this
profter OF the government is fully known abroad.
the increase of immigration will be greater in
proportion than from 1900 to 1850. This era-
tuitous proifer Of land to the foreigner, his ele
walton at once to citizenship, is the maddest
scheme that has disgraced this government
This robbing OF our own posterity, this bestow-
ment of their patrimony upon the alien to sub
serve the purposes of the demagogue, is the most
unnatural act of which ever political parent
was guilty to its own offspring.
But even if this land gift does not increase
the annual immigration, if it continues simply
at the present rate, it will soon place us in Ell
alarming position Half o million q wear
enough to form new State year enough to
furnish i've new representatives in Congress
year. In twenty years ten millions Of foreign
ers, besides the present number Who can look
upon this future and not feel anxious for his
country. s5~as Faaf Ezs.s. Y. i s.s5r6z5 A
In 1850 there were 8,7s6,96s native born
males IN this country. and ,230 ,434 foreign
born males That is, about one seventh of cur
male population was then foreign born. 1t is to
be presumed that this proportion has increased
to noarly one-fifth of our male population. We
have in our country an array OF more than one
million and a half of foreign born males the
material of which revolution were made at
home, and with which revolutions may be made
here. 1t is bad feature in this population
that it seldom assimilates with the American
population, where there are foreigners enough
for association. They intermarry among them.
selves. They have their military companies,
even regiments of them,
/ am informed that there is an Irish military
organization in New York, comprising a large
number of men. That this organization has a
fund Of one half million of dollars, ready for
any immediate use, that is controlled by com
mittee called the New York Irish Directory.
They have their St George and St. Patrick So
cieties They have no right to keep up 4epa-
rate nationality while they are American cti-
zens. man who is constantly fondlDg bis
mimic lion, will be 10th to repel the real lion if
he came growing upon our shores. And SO on
with the rest These things ought not to be so
Government should lay its strong hand upon
them. No other nation would telerate it.
The total population of the State of New
York in 1850, was 8 097 1874 of this number
58,098 were foreigners; number of foreigners
IN that one state greater than the whole popu
% tlon of Georgia The number of foreigners
n New York cannot now be less than one mil
ionf S4 l44.E E 4a4@ 49,.
The whole population of Wisconsin was 304,.
j07--of this number ,e12 were natives, and
log, ,69o foreigners-how nearly an equality be-
ts cen the two, foreign and native The ratio in
Minnesota was about the same In some of the
cities and seaboard counties of the Atlantic
States. the proportion of foreigners is very
great. In the t9o counties of Suffolk and Mid
diesex in Massachusetts, there were upwards of
SO, ,000-t this in two counties. The total popu-
lation of New York and its suburbs was 515,-
547-of this number 2409S9 were foreigners,
nearly one. half of the whole population Of the
great center of American existence and trade
the very heart of their great Republic
half nearly of its influence foreign. y q s.,
If all these foreigners were valuable citizens
if they were all even honest mem if they could
gain their daily bread, it would be different
affair. But the character of these people is in
many instances Of the worst description.
Among them there is q great amount of 10
norance The foreign population Of the East
srn States was 3o5, ,444, Of this number "A .692
could neither read nor write. So far as we can
earn there are now at least one.guarter of a
million of Foreigners who can neither read nor
write. These msn can neither write their own
names nor read the ticket they vote, Many of
them do not understand one word of English,
ye they have as much weight at the polls as q
native born intelligent American. It is sin
and shame to America that such things are
suffered
AS there is much ignorance, so there is much
among them.
In the State of Massachusetts there were
9 ,247 paupers, In New York there were 40, O.
foreign paupers to 1926 native paupers In
Pennsylvania 1893 native and 5,653 foreign
In the whole United States there
were 66, ,434 native and 68, ,538 foreign paupers.
with one fifth of the whole population, the for
eign paupers exceed the native paupers This
number is certainly increased to nearly, if not
quite, 100, 900 in the United States, at cost of
one hundred dollars each. This would amount
to an annual expense of l0,000,0o0 of dollars
to support foreign paupers in the United states
This OF course does not include the sums given
to street beggars, or persons not in the receipt
of public charities BY what treaty have we
become the poer house of Great Britain and
Germany BY what part of the Christian code
are we bound to do this. 1t is an outrage no
longer to be endured. Already hasthe Ameri.
can sentiment aroused by the American party
begun TO be felt. Some OF the States have begua
to act upon this point. This is the first fruits =
other and more important results will follow.
The statistics of crime in the United States
show that a very large proportion Of theinmates
of ny,rp pr;u nd f,ra