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rated j&ud spreads farther back; and in that
region will probably rise soue great city, With
lts tributary people
the United States. 1t is Tery remarkable thst
there should be 50 much homogeniety Of race.
It is, literally. tho land Of the Anglo-Saxon.
How many Of French, or Spanish, or Italian, OF
Russian origin, are in the United States? So
small number that 1t is, literally, buta drop
II the ocean.
Tho German immigrants diHeEs 50 little from
the English, that it ia not worth while to put him
in separate class. The only large bodies Of
foreign race, in this country, arc the Africans
and Tho Celtic Irish. The North of1reland peo-
pie who, from 1890 to 1900, migrated largely to
Pennsylrania, arc Of Seottich origin, and full
But, taking the whole Irish migration, As one,
and they are much fewer in The country 4han
most persons suppose BY the census Of 1850,
there we're but 0G0, 900 1rish-born in this coun-
tsy. Taking the deaths among them in view,
md the immigration from Ireland since, there
cannot BE- much over 200 600 lrlsh.boTn, now
here. About one-balf the whole numher in
New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts.
In Ohio, there are about 10000 Of which one
third are in Cincinnati. hehabits Of this peo-
pie lend them to seek towns, when they cannot
find employment in the construction Of canals
and railroads. The great foreign body IN this
country are the negroes, who although Ameri-
race, BY habits, BY condition, and BY the barrier
which slavery puts between them and all other.
Unfortunately, this foreign element il one
which time does not diminish. The child ofthe
1rishman, and even Of the French or Spaniard,
grows up an American, and is mingled in the
great mass Of the dominant race but not 50
with the negro. As long as the sl'ghtest shade
of color rema1ns he Ia eHled from the national
family.
l. rule prevails, which prevails no where else
On earth, that the white man cannot by any Ad-
mixture Of his own blood, bring the remotess
descendant of an African to his own 1eveL This
is not u consequence Of color 80 much as of
bondage; but the bondage is 4 consequence of
color, }of no race Of white men could be retain
ed slaves in the United States. This race Of
bondmen. foreign alike in lineage and habits, to
the people Of this country, have increased fse-
}otd in sixty years, To what end does this null
tlplif alton OF great foreign element tend:
What is its destiny! When this element en-
braces, Us IN sixty years more i willy twenty
enough for them, in company with white men:
If room enough for them; will the world want
cotton enough to employ Them? AndHhat will
be their political relations: Will they remain
rs they are, or will some great and startling
change take plaee: It's Plaiq that the exist
sents problems Of tremendous magnitude. A
few more years will determine their solution;
and in the meanwhile we may be contcnted to
leave them, and REV the splendid panorama Of
this young and free nation, rising to the loftiest
height Of glory and grandeur. No one can con-
template it, without feeling that the civilization
Of the earth is improved; and without some
ted the prophets Of old, when from Judah's
Hills they beheld the vision Of The earth re-
newed, and nations coming to the brightness Of
Permanent Day.