New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-01

The INFLUENCE OF IMMIGRATION UPON THE
PUBLIC LANDs.-Charley Fontaine the Ameri-
can candidate for Governor of Mississippi, is de-
serving success by the gallant manner in which
he is conducting the canvass His speeches are
able and fortified with facts which ought to CON
vince the mind, while his eloquence should cap
tivate the heart, He is, in all the elements Of
greatness, the superior of McRae. In his recent
speech at Coffeeville, Mr.. Foptaine used an ar
gument to show that unless our present system
Of immigration il modified, the poorer classes of
our native citizens-the young heirs of the gov
ment--will, in few years, be reduced to serfs
and slaves Of the opulent We reproduce the
idea in the hope that it will find a Judgment
in the public mind everywhere The United
States is the great landholder of the nation.
She has millions Of acres, which are now offered
at such prices as to place them within the easy
reach of all. Every citizen, howsoever limited
his means, can now have his own house live
beneath his own roof, and claim his humble cot
tage as his castle--and cultivate his own grain,
and fruits, and flowers. But, by our present
system of immigration, which annually throws
upon our shores 500, 900 foreigners, to be added
to the five millions already here, this land now
owned by the government, and offered, some
at rs and SO cents, and some at ST. rs per
acre, will soon be taken up by them and the
rich capitalists of the country. The conse-
quenoe will inevitably follow that lands will 90
up to. So, $40, or 500 per acre, as they have
done from this cause in Illinois, Indiana, Wis
consin, Iowa, and other Western States; thus
placing them beyond the reach of the poor, who,
not being able to purchase lands must become
therenters and tenants Of the rich, and on their
own terms; condition which every citizen
should shun as he would shun war or pesti-
lenee.
These facts need no enforcement. They COM
mend themselves to the serious consideration Of
every American citizen. We already see the
effect of the working of the naturalization laws
in the large Western States. A stream of for
eign immigration
8 Like which the populous North
Poured never from her frozen loins, to pass
Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons
Came like deluge on the South, and spread
Beneath Gibraltar to the Ly bian sands''-
tireless and rampant multitude--made up
mainly of fanatics of every grade and charac-
ter, who quit their country for their country IS
good-have taken possession of large tracts of
the public domain, and control the destiny even
now of the boundless West. The States in that
quarter present the strange and altogether
unnatural spectacle of being controlled by men
whose hearts and loves and undying memories
are in Europe whose ideas and fancies
are unchaDgeably European. The abrasion Of
mind cannot harmonize the antipatby Of ideas
and affection that exists between natives of
different countries. The human heart returns
for solace and gives its tervd love to the home
which recalls our childhood yNatura erpeUas
Jtrca, tanaen Wsqne rccurret Il is the nature
of man to bestow his best love upon his birth
place; and nature may be turned out of doors
with violence, BUT SHE WILL STILL RETURN.
memphis Eagle and Enquirer.