Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-01-02
Some Of the Consequence of Diminiahed In
miQrafion

migration.
1t is estimated by persons familisr with the
rate of immigration, that if the average be
no greater the next six months than the past.
there will be falling off in 1856 Of some
150, 900 or 180, 900 In the number of for
eigners arriving on our shores. This is a
weighty fact, and deserves careful considera-
tions from those who in business or morals
are specializing on the future of our country
Probably so, 900 of those who stop at home
are Germans; the rest of the deficit is made
up almost entirely Of Irish. If each of these
Immigrants had consumed or spent S4 in New
York as he passed through, it will make a
difference next year in the city of some $780,
900 income. If each had possessed In ready
money the average which the returns from
Castle Garden show at present-namely,
about S80-it would diminish the import of
specie into the country by about thirteen and
a half Daillion Of oollars-lnoney which is
not even an exchange, but is SO much clear
addition of wealth Then all these people
consume our products; they rent our houses,
they wear clothes, they eat our corn and
rye; our beef and mutton and fish; they buy
our timber and brick aid iron and coal they
read our books and papers and magazines.
Setting down the average cost of living at two
dollars week to each man. and woman and
supposng that they at least earn all they con-
sumo by their labor. we have loss next year
to the producers of the .country-to the farm
ers, the grocers, the builders, the clothiers,
the house owners, the brick makers and coal
miners, the editors and booksellers, of seven
teen millions of dollars. If these estimates
be correct, we have direct loss next year to
the couatry in this decrease of immigration of
over thirty million Of dollars
We cannot easily appreciate this loss until
we take some corresponding destruction of
value to our most apparent wealth. People
do readily see loss and gain on a great scale.
1t has taken centuries to make the mass un-
derstand that penny farthing duty ON
pound of some foreign article imported is an
immense loss to their own pockets.
Texas was thought a valuable acquisition
by many, in its rich farms, though we paid
round price for it: yet the value of all the
farms In Texas, and Arkansas besides, is no
greater than the value lost by this years de-
crease of immigration New York and Penn
sylvania boast themselves Of rich crops of
wheat. but the whole growth of their crops, if
no greater than in 1850. would be two mil
lions short of the worth to US of these inmi-
grants who stay at home for single year It
would seem fearful blow to the country if
by war, fire, any calamity, our whole ex-
ported mauuIactu tureS-all these TO cnerlSh
which we have been paying duties SO long
should suddenly be utterly destroyed; yet the
loss wculd be four millions of dollars less, ts<
king the value in 1854, than the loss this
year from impeded immigration. The quick
destruction of ali the -four aud corn, and the
products of agriculture. which We usually ex-
port. which bring wealth TO SO many thous-
ands, would be but little greater than the de-
straciion, this year, of value imported by the
immigrants If one third of the c9toa crop
last year had been lost what lamentations
would have been re-echoed from one end of
the Union to the other. how many would
have been bankrupt. how many would have
felt poorer. OR, if the whole Indian corn
crop last year, of New England. New York.
New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Delaware, Mary
land and the District of Columbia had per-
ished, what Jermaid of mourning would
have arisen To appoint new Fast would
have been the least which our Governors
could have done. Yet the first of these sup
posed losses is no greater, and the last is less.
than we shall silently bear. this year. from de-
creased immigration. VIII not some good
Know Nothing Governor institute Fast
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