Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-07
immigration.

To thS EQ1t0rS o. ne MannSSOtaOH:
The Chicago Press and Tribune says "the
news of the introduction of Mr. Grows Home
stead Bill was received throughout Germany,
by the people, with many manifestations of
joy. While its fate was doubtful, extensive
preparations for removal to the United States
were made. The passage Of the measure
through the House of Representatives was
thought to be an earnest of its enactment by
the Senate, and, in consequence, the fever of
emigration spread far and wide. Had the
bill become law, the summer would not have
gone by without bringing to the west, where
men are wanted, flood of immigration that
would have added largely to the population of
half dozen western States Our cities and
villages, as we'll as the rural districts, would
have felt the impulse which it would have
caused and much of the distress incident to
the hard times and the revulsion, by this in
fux of labor and capital, would have been
prevented. But, unfortunately for the west,
the Senate listened to the cry of the South
"niggers for the niggerless rather than to
the demand of the free men of the North
| Glands for the landless "-and the bill was
defeated The consequences of the triumph
of slavery begins to be apparent. The multi
form preparations Of tens Of thousands in
Germany for removal to this country, have
been abandoned and it is now thought by
those most familiar with German affairs, that
nothing but the breaking out of general
European war, can prevent the immigration
for the year from falling down to a figure
which it has not touched since 1S47. The
liberal German press explains why this so -
A grant of land to actual settlers upon our
vast public domain would have been conclu-
sive proof of the care of our government for
white men, and the freedom which they come
here to enjoy. The defeat of Crows bill, by
the united opposition of the sham Democracy
of the North and South, is proof, on the con-
trary, that the power and patronage of Con-
gress and the Executive are yet exerted for the
support and maintenance of chattel slavery
1t was the land that the immigrants demand
ed 1t was not the defeat of their expecta-
tons that they might enter each into the pos
session of 16O acres which is keeping them
away. Their purposes are changed, because
they do not wish to carry their labor to mar
ket in which it is not honored, or their man.
hood to country in which it is held in disre-
spect. The day, we hope, is not far distant,
in which the unwise action of the Senate may
be reversed. With Republican majority in
that body, and with Republican President
in the White House, the landless of our own
country will receive that boon for which they
ought never to have asked in vain; and the
toiling millions of other lands, who look to this
regenerated country as their home, will be as.
sured that the domination of slavery and its
abomlnations and barbarisms has passed
away. In the meantime it is well enough for
the Germans and other foreign born citizens
among us to understand that, in the opinion
of this sham Democracy, the effort to give
niggers to the niggerless" should take prec-
edence of the struggle for lands for the land
less" and that slaves and their security are
of more importance than white men and their
happiness"