Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-23
REVIVAL OF FOREIGN EMIGRATION.

REVIVAL OF FOREIGN EMIGRATION.
The emigration of Europeans to the United
States during the present year promises to be
exceedingly large. Vessels arriving weekly at
Boston and New York are crowded with emf
grants and it is estimated that not less than
ten thousand persons, collected chiefly from
the German States, are now on their way to
our shores The Irish emigration, which has
been partially suspended during the past three
years, for obvious reasons, is reviying with
considerable vigor, and the present year will
undoubtedly witness large addition to that
portion of our population.
The causes which have given the present
impulse to emigration also give encouraging
indications of its character. 1t will be COM
posed of heads of families with their depend
ents, who would have something to risk in the
anarchies and disasters incident to war. 1t
will contain many of those intelligent people
who, in spite of misfortunes of education and
idiosyncracies of habit, have the sense to see
that popular government, whose policy is
peace, IS better suited to the wants of the in
dustrious classes than an imperial govern
ment in which the people are merely append
ages to power. Adventures will stay at home
for the present. The war calls for their SER
vices, and will have them. The large class
which has hitherto furnished the chief staple
of emigraton-the class oppressed by land
lords or borne down by the hard servitude of
caste-the class which has its simlitude in the
crushed figures of the old cathedrals, under
the weight of enormous pillars, vainly strug
Cling to raise their heads-will also contribute
largely to the Westward movement Men and
women of muscular development, which would
excite the admiration of our slave traders, if
clothed with a darker cuticle; of warm and
genial affections; of intelligence above the
average of the class to which they belong
they will not fail 10 add much to the wealth
and the promise of the country which they
choose for their adoption.
Fortunately, the time for discussing the
question whether any honest man, with re-
publican tendencies, can be an injury to Re-
public, is wholly passed. The materials for
making democratic States rich, intelligent,
and progressive, are not limited to any single
race of men. The beautiful and consummate
Anglo Saxon, whose pride sometimes excites
the wit and sometimes the envy of the repre-
sentatives of other races, is, after ALL a crea-
ture of dependent and limited powers. In his
highest development, he is not too high
to be benefited by the muscle and the mind of
oxvho ho ,e roeb
despise. In those States where manhood is
held the cheapest, thousand dollars is a low
price for mere bones and muscles properly ar
ranged and covered with a sound epidermis.
In a free State, man, governed by his own
intelligence, and by impulses regulated and
softened by experience is certainly not worth
less than that sum. And any body of men, we
shall not inquire to what department of activi-
ty the energies which God has given them
for wise uses are devoted, nor upon what soil
they were taught their first lessons of self-de-
pendence, are part of the treasure of the
State to which they belong The humblest,
least intelligent, and least cultivated of men
have appropriate places to fill in the economy
of all States. 1t would be the selfishness and
folly of suicide for us to say, Massachusetts
is now fully matured her institutions are fin
ished her public works are built her private
enterprises are in the hands other own family;
therefore down with the gates against the
immigration of men who can do nothing but
work" Put the lowest estimate you will on
the Celtic and Teutonic tides of emigration
flowing in from their pent-up sources like rivers
to the open sea, their material value to this
country could not be estimated by any or all
of our ordinary measurements of value. But
with the matured intelligence, the habits of in
dustry, the large and welldirected ambition
which characterizes many of them, they are
fit to take their places by the side of the best
of US, and shame us out of our pride.
This continent to which the feet of the Pill
grims seem to have been directed by Heaven,
seems also to have been predestined as the
place where the unfortunate, the exiled, and
the oppressed, might find a refuge and home.
Its vast extent of fruitful and productive soil,
its inexhaustible resources of mineral wealth,
its facilities for commerce, its capabilities for
manufactures yet concealed in its unbroken
forests and hidden in its beds of coal, are the
temptations which nature holds out to the rest
of the world On one side of this repository of
such wealth of resources, the first successful
experiment of selfgovernment has been tried,
1t succeeded against obstacles which would
have disheartened and subdued any but the
most sincere and the most earnest of men.
Powerful and long established governments
abroad opposed it. Large and influential
classes and cliques at home conspired against
it. Yet it succeeded, and to-day it com
mands the homage of mankind. Certainly, it
is not in the power of a ship-load of emigrants
landed weekly upon our shores, to weaken or
disturb that theory of government, now that it
is confirmed by age, and rooted in the affec-
tons Of the whole people.
THE OBERLIN TRIALs-Hdbeds Corpus
Grdnted.-Late developments give new inter.
est to the case Of the Oberlin rescuers. The