The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-14

mended Yet they not usual some what too san
annoyDg-not even without touch of the ridiculous;
but they assure that such embar xil not
S a axe ssys Of the v Ss.s s
republicans Acknowledging that 81 oud be very glad
20 see the system work we solving number Of very
which the Americans make in progress the great
viii not be the difficulty Of managing their mos cumb
and hazardous State machine. Now, and Tor
long year ccme there is for explanation The pas
sions engendered in q crowded community find vent In
enterprise and political ambition 10 the desire for
territorial acquisition and pecunary gain But let the
States become fully peopledlet even the tendency to
the Far West be by the greater facilities afforded
then we shall how 1t will be possible to govern
homogeneous Of States, subject to moral control
such regulates the European nations liable to be
swayed and agtaed from END OF that Continent to
the other by the fierce strife 1uctuatg caprces of
Judge of American affairs Mach that he prophesied
the then limited facts has already to pass;
and The time is not beyond our ken when may
Not purely domestic matters alone Is the inteui-
gence brought by the last mail at disastrous and
democracy that has brought the deadlock in the
Congress- has involved the States in awkward dispute
with this country With every desire to conciliate
Cannot square our craftsmanship with the Barnumike
arts required to please rude and arrogant multitude
1t is well known that do not wish to plunge
varhat on the contrary, DESTROYS Of closing the
present Yet government is compelled decnne
yielding to the insoence Of the Caleb Cushings and the
We are not surprised therefore, that Mr.. Buchanan
has informed his government, that ours declines,
though courteously, to give the explanations with
regard to the Champion question, which de-
manded by the United States government When
the papers laid before Parliament it will be found
compatible with the dignity Of this country that there
assumptions to which we cannot bow til is not only
cause-are embroiled. Three Of the Independent
south Of the Union have protested against
tbs recognition by the Cabinet of Washington Of the
government Of Ncaragua-the result of sfbustering'
piratical expedition of the most fagtous kind. II
does not yet appear what has been given by the
Presidents government but another expedition, Ia ey
fitting out at New York against Nicaragua has been
stopped Are In the days Of Cortez and Pizarro?
certainly was high time our West India feet should be
reinforced and in this instance little of the old Pal
merstonan vigor will certainly not be mis- placed
duct and fortune In America.
From the London Times, Dec. 90.
Neutrality-suspicious. Amnngr Stion Oh irishnen INTO Ire.
land Is one OF many facts which no man with the least
regard to his reputation would have predicted twenty
years ago. Nevertheless it il u tact. The provincial
journals daily announcing the return of to
the old country all with money in their pockets Some
of them have even had the precautou to end home
ders for guano and seaweed in anticipation. far of
course it has bee with these emgrants que ,tion be-
tween moral and physical considerations Few men,
sell but from the necessity OF subsistence, or,
what is equivalent, the main enance Of their rank
in society. Numbers, famine and the inextricable
matter Of se preservation aud there was no choice but
to fly to land If not of kind hearts at least of good
cheer Hence mat unparalleled migration which
millions went with run" in less than ten years. Now,
considering the very little progress have made our
selves the of seven centuries in assmatng the
Irish eementconsdeing that of the end of the
centuries the relations OF the two countries hardly
better than at the first ought not to underrse the
difficulty task thus suddenly thrown upou our trans
atlantic cousins. The Irish carried with them not only
their rags their dirt their diseases but what
Serious their unthrty and sloveny habits their turbu
eDce their lcve denomination every petence aud all
that sets them at with civilized society Happily
the Irish, happily for human nature, there good
buckled themselves to and great aud trouble
made all sorts Of arrangements to tighten the misery of
snares OF new country. The struggle that has been
going on for in the great ports the Union between
the indlers who prey the immigrant and the socie
ties formed for his guidance and protection would furnish
many materials for the novelist the between
the STAKEHOLDER and the abolionist The results have
been of mixed character cannot be said that the
immigration hes been disastrous when railways have
been carried into the heart OF that vast continent
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men, and when 1t is confessed that without the Ce
thing could have been DONE On the other hand, there
grants computed have died through poverty change
OF climate, the seeds of disease brought With them
within twelvemonth of their landing. There is too
the not less serious fact of permanent hostility Of
feeling between the Irish and large portion of the
tive Ameri ANS.
The moral tie that binds the heart Of the emf.
grant to the soil Of his birth cannot but be weak
eneS every year. The parent who carries the
their attention. and it is only as 1t we're through
5s veil sss they d see the
Ireland the Irish settler win be only the region Of
harmless legends unless, indeed, the commixturs Of
sons Of the original Immigrant into sober calculating
citizens Nothing indeed is remarkable the rapid
French nationalties not to speak of halfdozen
lesser distinctions of race. in the average American
type. II might have been expected that the fact of
this continual fusion would have led the citizens of the
Union to assume It q political condition. to
reckon upon it, to promote it, to all obsta-
cles and to hail as second only to those who signed
the declaration Of American independence any one
who should devote himself to the task of ,ilisting
and harmonizing the heterogeneous Of immigration.
There are men who do this great work There others
who do their best to hinder it, Thanks to the efforts of
this latter class the Irish immigrant finds if actual
des He is confronted by cold looks by nvidous rules
BY actious Congratulations and everything short of law
and worse than law. No doubt this far It goes
drives the Celt back to his old country He viii not
make his home where he does not find himself home
This unkindy rebuff has already sent back many has
discouraged still more from ever leaving Ireland may
ultimately stop the immigration altogether, and
produce the most serious results the social
and commercial condition of the States. The
working classes there kept in q certain degree
Of submission, If not differentiation by the continual To-
aux Of immigrant labor When that influx ceases the
his own TERMS and the contest Of labo- and capital will
probably assume character injurious to trade, If not
dangerous to orcer 1t is the very fact Of the immiga
ton keeping down the pretensons CT labor that chiefly
inspires the NOV ut against 1t.
Ireland, there Is little dbubt Is o better country
for the farmer than ten twenty ago. The
land Is generally in better state regards the pro-
petorshp there is not the burden OF poverty the
potato is sound and what more, prices high and
win probably continue long the lasts. In
mere commercial point Of view, tage and still more,
pasturage, must be more profitable within a hundred
miles Of the market than across the Atlantic.
In other respects Ireland is agreeable place to
live in than it Political agitation is almost extinct
demsgogue Is able to take the place Of OConne the
question of tenant right but poor substitute for the
repeal Of the Union assassinatons there still are but
farms that once beggared the small class Of armera
The railways have thrown open parts Of Ireland that
almost inaccessible; and there ia now hardly
point where the farmer cannot bring his crops or his
cattle to good market expeditiously and cheapy II
may be observed, by the way that the three Queens
Colleges have received unexpected testimony in the
shape Of pupils sent to tbs America by Irish end
grants now at liberty to educate their sons they
please Thus ii appears that these colleges will
for the States wen for Ireland, and will be link
between the two untries.
From the Dublin Evening Mail Of Dec. 26.l