Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-26
European Emigration Diverted from
America by the War-COmmercia
Effects of the Movement.


| Iron the London Times, November IL
The temptations offered by America to emf.
| grants we're In former days so powerful as TO
| outweigh even the solid advantages extended
| by our own colonies, Dazzed by the genuine
! prospect Of cheap land, and the enticing Wis.
ions Of political equality, the settler rejected
even the gold fields Of Australia and the rich
territories Of Canada for the embryo States OF
the Union. Emigration, while il ocoasioned an
extraordinary abatement from our own increase,
gave an equally extraordinary impulse to the
| increase Of America.
We lost by emigration while we gained by
births; whereas tho Americans gained by
births and emigration too. That was the secret
| Of their miraculous rise. When we learned,
short time ago, that the three States Of Mich
igan, Wisconsin and Iowa had actually in-
creased from an aggregate population OF some
| 900 in 1850 TO one Of some Z.zoU,UOO In
1860, we cav how large were the contribui ions
made to the American census by omigraus
from foreign lands, and these are the con-
tIibuions which the civil war has noD e-
| tectlaKy Intercepted. few lines of statistics
will show to what an extent this unexpected
influence has operated.
Ten years ago the number of persons who
tmigrated during the summer quarter from this
country to the United States was 6S,93l. Even
as early as this time last year there was
great falling of in these figures, due, in some
part, DO doubt, to the attractions of British
|
gatherings in the American sky. But now the
contrast is quite astounding. Instead Of
nearly 20 600, we see less than 1000. The
exact number is 8, 348, so that our cont ibuton
to America has fallen off ninety per cent. In-
stead of getting 10000 useful citizens from us,
the Americans now get 5000, and even this
supply, We may well conclude, will soon be
still Iurther curtailed.
The truth is that the advantages hitherto
offered by the Union have now vanished, and
the intending settler sees nothing but prospsc.
tive burdens. Not only are all the alarms of
war and the contingencies of military service
to be encountered, but the inevitable creations
of a standing army and national debt bode
II for the pockets Of the emigrant. Hence
forth America will be very like one Of the o!d
counties, and we are told, indeed, that disap
pointment and terror have already driven
many settlers to cross the British border, or
3 even to traverse the Atlantic once more.
} This, however, is not the only result of the
. great political schism. What America loses
} other countries gain. Many persons, who
4 would otherwise have emigrated, remain at
! home in these islands, but there is still some
5 outflow, and the stream runs toward Canada
4 or Australia. For the first time probably in
: the history of emigration, the Australian colo
= MES bave received more emigrants than the
= United States, and our North American colo
MES almost as many. While 6,34S still re-
II solved, as we have stated, to cast their lot in
d 7,100 sailed for Australia, and as many as
70 $50 to British North America Our own
70 colonies, therefore, will become peopled at the
L expense Of America, and this strange civil
J, war, besides subvertng the destinies of grea'
D republic, will quicken the growth Of mighty
State in the South.
1t is hard, indeed, to calculate the various
!, consequences of the American war. Already
81 we can distinguish the probable displacement
ne of an enormous trade, and the enrichment o
o- the East at the expense of the West; the stop
page of one current of population, and the in
creased volume of another; the redistribution
m of continent, and the formation, perhaps, o.
W q system of States with characters and func
re tions yet unknown. The more attcntively the
II crisis IS contemplated the more inevitable dC
n these results appear. kilograms follow tele
- grams without bringing the least prospect o.
'n either decisive conquest or effectual compro
mise, while even if the war, contrary to al
as expectations, should be speedily terminated
rs its effects will long survive just the billow
of continue to roll on the shore for days after th
~ tempest has ceased.
The view taken by the Federal Government
# itself Of the prospect before it, is sufficiently
"a shown by the projected establishment of per
10 30 marent barracks at Washington for $4,000
oS aoldiers-a garrison which would suffice for st
20 Petersburg or Vienna. 1t would be years be
fore emigrants would believe in the paci6catiol
d. of the Union even if peace were proclaime
IL tomorrow; while as to the cotton trade of tn
South, that appears to be in o fair way t.
o, ruin. If the Confederates could not only re
10 pulse the invaders, but compel them to remail
IN at peace in their territories without inter
M fe1iDg with Southern institutions, cotton nigh
NJ once more come from Charleston to Liverpool
~ but of all results this seems the least likely.
ou The Northerners are bent upon fighting
IN III the death for the restoration of the Union.
al they win, it appears moro and more probabl
w that the Abolitionists will succeed to create
h or less extent in enforcing their principles, an
by in that event the days of cotton cultivation, fl
a long time at any rate, will be past and gon
ry If the Northern troops, though still keepir
Ie the field, are unable to conquer their oppt
of nents, the results will simply be perpetuatiO
a of the difficulties which we witness now, vii
-: tho addition, indeed, Of q PROSTATE industry
III q maritime blockade.
We In this review of the impending changes ar
ys displacements of population we have taken
If the belligerents themselves, yet, unless Il
lid campaigns in America differ strangely from Q
other campaigns, these effects ought to be ve
notable. Neuer before, zoe prestImes IN ciuitiS
me States did so large proportion Of the commun
an take up arms.
nj The State of Massachusetts, had less than
ir- million inhabitants in 1850; it has since
NJ creased by some 100000 or 100000; but ev
ir this development is perfectly insufficient to Q
~ plain its extraordinary levies. It has actual
'ad raised twenty five regiments of infantry, Fl
uy batteries of artillery and one regiment of ca
,ed airy, amounting together to some 10000 me
ley and it has given quota of some 10000 sailC
,ad to the Federal feet. In other words, this Sta
20. with population not half as large as that
On our own metropolis, is maintaining in the ie
nes force as great as England used to dispatch
i'm her greatest wars,
- Rhode Island, again, from population I
turned in 1850 as 147, 900, raises four battalio
oou Of infantry, two regiments of cavalry q
ems eight batteries of artilery-the total contrib
OBJ tions of the New England States alone bel
ON reokoned at 100000 men. If, however, ca
ny paigning is to do its usual work on thu
as prodigiOus levies, what will become of
ses population of the Union2 What will be
,ts tale told by the census of 1870, when imE
air grafton has ceased and war has produced
90 natural effects2 The various revolutions Il
~. - dimly visible may we'll excite our astOnii
e.9 ment, and induce US to be thankful that El
ID land has been spared to run its old course
on prosperity without menace of depopulation
but danger.
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