Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-12-03
AMERICAN AFFAIRS IN EUROPE.

European Emigration diverted from Anne,
1ca bX me War"-.COmmsrcial EfGecGs o
From the London Times, November /
The temptations offered by America to emigrsnt
were in former days so powerful as to outweig
even the solid advantages extended by our own co
lonies. Dazzled by the genuine prospect of chea
land, and the enticing visions of political equality
the settler rejected even the gold fields Of austria
lia and the rich territories of Canada for the EN-
| bryo States of the Union. Emigration while it oc
| casioned an extraordinary abatement from oul
! own increase. gave an equally extraordinary i'm
pulse to the increase Of America We lost by emf
! grafton while we gained by births; whereas the
! Americans gained by births and emigration too
| When we learnt, short time ago, that the three
States of Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa had actu,
| ally increased from an aggregate population Of
some 500 coo in 1850 to one of some 225OOG9 in
| 1860, we saw how large were the contributions
made TO the American census by Immigrants from
foreign lands and these are the contributions which
the civil war has no1c cfectuay intercepted. few
lines of statistics will show to what an extent this
unexpected influence has already operated.
Ten years ago the number of persons who emil
grated during the summer quarter from this eOun-
try TO the United Ststes was 6s 93I Even as early
as this time last year there great falling of
IN these figures, due in some part no doubt TO the
attractions of British Columbia and Australia as
well as to the gatherings in the American sky But
nearly 10000. we see less than 1000. The exact
number Is S4S, so that contribution to America
has fallen off ninety per cent. Instead Of getting
$4,000 useful citizens from u.s. the Americans now
get 5000, and even this supply, we may conclude,
will soon be still further curtailed. The truth ia
that the advantages hitherto offered by the Union
have now vanished and in their place the intending
settler sees nothing but prospective burdens Not
only all the alarms of war aud the contingencies
of military service to be encountered but the ia.
taxi 80 ,.%,,
debt bode i'll for the pockets of the emjgrant Hence
forth America will be very like one of the old eoun
tries, and we told, indeed, that disappointment
and terror have already driven many settlers to
cross the British border, or even to traverse the
Atlantic once more.
This, however is not the only result of the great
political schism. What America loses other coun-
tries gain. Many persons who would otherwise
have emigrated, remain at home IN thess islands
but there is still some outflow, aud the stream runs
towards CsnSds or Australia. For the first time
probably IN the history of emigration, Australian
colonies have received more emlgrants than the
United States, and our North American colonies al
most as many. While 6,34S still resolved, as we
have stated to cast their lot in with the citizens of
the States no fewer than 7, 100 sailed for Austria
liza, and as many as 1880 to British North America
Our own colonies. therefore, will become peopled
at the expense Of America, and this strange civil
war, besides subverting the destinies of great re-
public. will quicken the growth Of mighty State
in the South. ...
1t is hard indeed, to calculate the various cos.
sequences of the American war. Already we can
distinguish the probable displacement of an enor-
mous trade and the enrichment Of the East at the
expense Of the West; the stoppsge of one current
of population, and the increase volume of another
the redistribution of continent, and the form alton
perhaps, of asystem Of States with characters and
functions yet unknown. The more attentively the |
crisis is contemplated the more inevitable do these
results appear. kilograms follow kilograms with
out bringing the least prospect of either decisive
conquest or efeetEal COMPROMISE while even if the
war contrary to sll expectations, should be speed
ly terminated its effects will long survive just as
the pillows continue to roll the shore for days
after the tempest has ceased The view taken by
the Federal Government itself of the prospect be-
fore it is sufficiently shown by the projected es,
Enlistment of permanent barracks at Washington
for 90 900 soldiers-a garrison which would suffice
for st. Petersburg or Vienna IL would be years
before Immigrants would believe in the pacifcation
of the Union even if peace were proclaimed to-
while, as the cotton trade of the South
that seems to be IN fair way to ruin. Il
If the Confederates could not only Fepulse the
invaders, but compel them to remain at peace in L
their own territories without interfering with |
Southern institutions, cotton might more come
from Charleston to Liverpool; but of all results
this seems the least likely. The Northerners are II
bent upon fighting to the death for the restoration
Of the Union. If they win, it appears moro and II
more probable that the abotonists will succeed to
greater or lees extent In enforcing their priDc~
PIES and in that event the days of cotton cultvaA
ion, for a long time at any rate, will be past and
zone. If the Northern troops though still keeping
The field, are unable to conquer their opponents,
he results will simply be a perpetuation of the
difficulties which We witness now, with the addi-
ion, indeed, of PROSTATE industry to a maratime
blockade.
In this review of the impending changes and dis
placements of population we have taken no account
IF the direct effects of the war upon the belliger.
snts themselves yet, unless the campaigns in
America differ strangely from all other campaigns
hese effects ought to be very notable. Never be-
lore, we presume, in civilized States did so large
proportion of the community take up arms.
The State of Mnssa. husetts had less than mill
ion inhabitants in 1862 II mas since increased by
some 200 600 or 800 900 bus even this develops
nent Is perfectly insufficient to explain its extra
ordinary levies. 1t has actually raised twenty
i've regiments of infantry, five batteries of srti-
cry and one regiment of cavalry, amounting to
yether to some 30 900 men, and it has given a
quota Of some 10000 sailors to the Federal feet
IN other words, this State, with population not
half as large as that of cur own metropolis, is
in the field force as great as England
used to dispatch to her greatest wars. Rhode
Island, again, from apOpulation returned in 1850
Is 147 600 raises four battaons of infantry, two
regiments of cavalry and eiget batteries of sFtil
sry-the total contributions of the New England
States alone being reCkoned at leo 900 men. IT,
however, campaigning is 70 do its ususual work j
IN these prOdigOus leyies, what will become {
If the population of the Union? What will be the