Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-23
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Europcan Emf grafton and its Effect
upOn our own Affairs.

European Emigration and its Effects
upon own Affairs
1t is a known fact that in Europe the dis
tinction between the different classes com
prisng the people is greater and more appar
eut than in this country The education
given to children of mechanics or poor peo.
pie is very different from that bestowed upon
tkose of the higher or richer classes. The
first send their children land are even COM
PEELED to do SOY to common schools, where
they learn to read and write, and where some
history, geography, arithmetic, music and
is taken and even very great care of their
moral and religious instructions The high
er or richer classes send their sons to higher
colleges, or other similar institutions, where
they receive thorough education Parents
of this kind very often spend little fortunes
for the more careful education of their chill
dren, believing this to be the best gift they
can bestow upon them. The parents of the
richer as well as the poorer classes never
loose control over their children, and young
men of twenty years old will always be most
Obedient to their parents and consider the
advise of father as sacred. All children
are taught to venerate persons of old age
and persons in high office; they are equally
taught to be very polite and very mild in
their intercourse with others. The sons of
the lower classes, at the age of fourteen,
leave school, and with the exception of those
who will be occupied in agricultural pursuits,
are placed in apprenticeship for about four
professions and soon are able to provide for
their own subsistence
But where ever they may 90 they deserve
to be appreciated, for they are a laborious
and an industrious as well as economical and
peaceable people. Besides this, they will be
good citizens, agreeable and mild in their in
tercourse with others and hospitable to the
extreme. In coming to this country, they
will mostly all belong to the Democratic par
ty, or perhaps even to the party of Young
America. The sons of the higher classes will
mostly become office"s + army or navy,
or study jurisprudence, medicine, theology,
or something else; not a few will follow a
business career, and these have to leave col
lege or some similar institution when they
ere about Ia years old. The first will sell
dom leave Europe, with the exception of
those who meddle perhaps, little too much
with politics and who on account Of safety
are compelled to find refuge in this country;
the latter, after leaving college, are placed
in kind Of apprenticeship at different bus
iness concerns, where severe control is ex-
ercised over them and where they have to
continue to learn foreign languages. Most
of them, being of small patrimony, become
clerks in the different business and banking
houses, and are generally regarded as intel
ligent and thoroughly educated men. OF
this class great number are dispersed over
the whole world, and are in all foreign bus
ness houses, equally considered as a valuable
and intelligent help Young German bust
ness men are, for instance, in England, France,
and Russia very much appreciated, and even
very cordlaly received III all Hlnllles; Jhev
mostly, too. are good musicians, and as such
all doors are open to them. In England,
chiefly, they are well appreciated as office
help, and the greater part of them attain
there Independent positions
Those coming to this country, Il mean the
United States generally,) are equally appre
ciated as help in business, but they are less
cordially received in families, and this, per
haps is not much to be wondered at.
(Io be continued. b.