The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-06-02

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question the large native populataon. sne 1ec.
tonic Influx d sulRcient 70 show IL huacy q
A 1or the necial adapGability Of America for
Ahe Celts. II 4 certainly significant that while
~ French and spaniards, both Of Celtic descent,
49, e.il.A n n1enh23ch permanent empire in
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ion Reunhtcs caA exist - such bat little longer
-ehe ssaall Engliah colonies, planted under in
auapicious circumstances, and mot generally ON
the most fertile portions Of The continent, have
developed into . confederacy that extends from
ocean 70 ocean. We do not deny that the inter-
slueeish Saxon blood, has materially changed
the TYNE Of character that belongs 70 the native
EnelisA. and given 10 Anefioans disseminated
rsselsss spirit q sntsspriss which urges them on
70 he acquidtion Of every fancied advantage
and 70 The addition Of every acre Of territory
shat they can lay their hands on. Still, awarding
all due credit TO the supposed demonstration Of
DR.. McElheran, that the heads Of the majority Of
naaive-born Americans are Of the genuine Celtic
type, We are not inclined to ascribc preponder-
ance Of idiosyncrasies of that race to Americans.
That our conclusion 10 apparently mot far from
correct will appear from the statistics Of immi-
grafton for the last twelve years. From l64S to
1882 inclusive the total number Of Irish arrivals
was l,OOe, 99S; Of Germans, S96,O97. From
ls48 to 1851 the Irish exceeded the German two
In 1854 the German immigration was 176, 1856;
the Irish, 81, 500. From 1855 to 1858 the Ger
mans outnumbercd the Irish by about one fourth
but in 1859 the scale turned again in favor Of
the Irish, the immigration from that island being
32,662; while only 2S,270 Germans arrived in
our portA
Whatever errors the late Rev. Mr.. Nautilus
may have fallen into, the general truth Of many
of the propositions laid down by this much ma
ligned economist are now established beyond
doubt. That the per centage Of births and
deaths, marriages and removals, accidents and
pestlences, are determined by laws Of fixed
though to us uncertain recurrence, is conceded
by Ill who have given their attention to sucf
subjecta
The old proverb that what is one mans mea
10 another mans poison has significance ant
An extent which few have ascribed to it. As II
the lower orders of organized existence the
stronger prey upon the weaker, SO does one indi
viduaI subsist At the cost of another, 30 do the
misfortunes of one nation bring about the pros.
perity of another.
To the famines and the Improvement that
have afflicted the people of the old world il
America indebted for its population more than
to the spirit Of adventure. The Puritans sought
refuge from persecution on the bleak coasts of
Massachusetts,; the oppressed Huguenots and
Palatines found shelter in the Carolinas from
the inroads Of war and religious bigotry. The
unjust legislation of England, aud, still more, the
terrible dearth of 1867, has sent dense hordcs
of Irish to our shores, while the score or two OF
petty despotisms that curse modern Germany
have filed the West with q hardy, frugal and
intelligent people.
We have said that all fluctuations in the con-
dition Of nations, a. well % individuals, re.
ferrable to law. Yet these laws are no blind
memorable necessities, sweeping down alike the
COED and the bad, performing their task, restrain
ed by no intelligent or benevolent lawgiver. We
think we do not incline to q weak superstition
when We recognize in the past of our country the
influence Of an overruling Providence. As the
mines Of California remained hidden from the
weak and doomed Spanish colonists, to be dis
covered only when and as soon as the Americans
gained possession of the soil beneath which tn.
golden harvest lay, SO have the woes of Europ'
reached their crisis at such times and in sucf
Localities rs to best meet our most urgent needs
Just as the progress of discovery had reachet
the construction of the railway locomotive, ant
the too dense population of the East was pouring
across the Alleghenies as rapidly as the slow
modes Of travel then in use would permit, the
arrival of large numbers of Irish, eager for worl
at any compensation, however small, enabled III
to commence those magnificent Internal improve
ments, the cost of which, at the rates paid
American laborers, would have been far above
what it was then deemed possible to pay.
So too when the surplus of our Eastern popu.
lation had been in good measure provided fol-
by the opening of the West to easy access, tn,
arrival Of Germans and Scandinavians brough
into immediate cultivation sections of countr,
that would otherwise have remained undisturbet
or been monopolized by some over rich specu
lator. But all this has been planned not for III,
good Of Americans alone. The benefit has bee,
reciprocal. The poor and discontinued hav,
found comfort and relief, and those who had n,
rights at home have attained liberty and equality
on this side Of the Atlantic. The work of assim
ilatiOn is going on faster than the prejudices o
many of either the native or the naturalized arr
pleased to perceive, and peace and plenty are il
the hands Of all who do not spurn the gift, an,
prefer the crop of tares, the inevitable harvest
life of folly to the sure reward of industry an,
frugality. These things has immigration etlecte,
for our land. If the tide has flowed in less ia
mildly for n poet ~ has l,oor hat
tunity might be given to those recently arrive,
to secure foothold ere they were thronged b,
those coming after. But the current has beer
checked only for time Again is ireland SUI
fering from short crops; once more are tller,
well grounded apprchensions Of a famine in tina
Inflated island The Mayo Constitution SAYS:
large number are suffering from the loca
failure OF the potato crop-thc destruction OF tn
grain crops-the severity of the winter-the los
OF cattle-and the absence of means to purchas
food 80 much that it is feared the pangs o
hunger are felt by some, whilst hundreds ar
lnaugurating the exodus which will end in tn
repatriation of vast population Of the aborig
ines, who have enough left to pay for their Dc
portation to another Cline
Many other journals express similar conyic
lions. In consequence, the number of emgrant
is becoming almost unprecedentedly great. Til
Secretary OF the Commissioners of Emigratio,
NJ New York states that the arrivals during 1856
will he very large, compared with those Of tn
three preceding years. From the Barony Erris
County Mayo, it is estimated that nearly tn
whole population of 20, 600 inhabitants will hav,
reached our shores within twelvemonth, an,
almost equal proportions will leave other eec
lions Of the kingdom, for the suffering is in man
parts intense. The arrivals at New York durin
the past week, from ireland alone, have mum
bered $500, and as the season advances tn
numbers will increase in still greater proportion
From materials such as these is our nation be
ing built up. Good DR.. Stiles, writing in Con
necticut nearly three-fourths Of n century ago
pictured a glorious future for the then newborn
confederacy; but in his estimation New Englan,
was ever to remain the center of commercial
agricultural and political influence, and tn
growth Of our population was mainly to aris
from natural increase. His predictions have, il
some respects, been more than fulfilled, vet no
in the way that he supposed.
Ancient Rome, the refuge of the outlawed an,
the prosecuted, grew in seven centuries to b.
the mistress OF the world. America, only tw,
hundred years ago the asylum of the oppressed
the Ultima Thule Of civilization, from which al
shrank save those who had no hope of happines