New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-27

No clearer or more intensely material evidence
Of the prosperity or adversity of this country can
be found than in the respective increase or dmiuu-
ton of immigration from Europe. Our readers
will bear witness that THE TRIBUNE has uniform
" asserted that the revenue tariff Of 1876 would re-
suit in the extinction of the attractions Of this
county to Europeans as land where increased
WAGES, certain rewards and elevated social position
were held out to thOse who expatriated themselves
in order to aette here. That state of extinction
has almost virtually arrived. BY the official tables
of tie Commissioners of Emigration, it appears
that TIE total number of immigrants arriving this
year u.s. up to this time, but twelve thousand; and
that they estimate that the whole number for the
entire year will not exceed Thirty thousand. In
other words, the immigrants do not average more
than one Thousand for each State of the Confed-
eracy this year. Next year. under the same policy
Of fee trade the number promises TO be still less,
down to nominal figure. In a word, all the
bright, gallant poetry respecting the magnetism Of
the free soil of the Western World and what is
more all the splendid matte o! facts touching the
immense wealth, the iTpulsiye advancement, the
vigorous strer 9Th, coming of such immigration, is
now becoming thing of past history. Under Free
Trade our country will have to rely for its growth
on Indigenous population. Hitherto, il hiss been
blessed among all natiors rs the only country in
the world which b. virtue Of the force of its ad
vancing civilization and comparative liberty, was
denudirg the !aristocIacies and despotsms of the
Old World OF their strongest defensive and pro-
ductive muse e-of the bold pessantry whom the
breath of the monarch could not make and who,
once gone. were gone forever. The anatb-
emss of Goldsmith in bis Deserted Village, on
Trade abused aud reckless Of local industry, might
be read IN pubic places as terrible commentary
on the blind policy which is checking the growth of
cur agricultural AMI mechanical population by half
a million year, that being the amount Of mmigra-
ton prevented by our rational worship Of Trade
of trade with the ut.ermOst parts of the earth in
preference to encouraging art aud industry and the
home virtues BY course which experience shows
alone to be sound.
Every immigrant who come, to this country,
estimated merely according TO an animal tariff Of
prices, il worth a thousand dollars. A million of
such immigrants, which we would certaaly have an.
nualy, under 4 thoroughly Protective system, would
be IN solid wealth to this countryw ealth extempo-
Ized on the spot, without antecedents Of trouble
ioss-one Thousand million dollars clear gain. The
wealth OF the children born of such au inlrx We
Nay not stop to calculate. The wealth which they
bring with them we may equally overlook, aud con-
fine ourselves simply to the practical, productive
value of the immigrants themselves.
A. en- Offset to this deficiency of the importation
of freemen, we find the question of opening tho
.la,o trade at the South becoming moro aud mors