The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1864-05-24
immigration.


caused now by enlistment, and that mus,
ensue even after the close OF the war,
through losses Of men on the field and in
the camp, i. is cheering to note the fact
that Europe is emptying upon our shores
q stream Of immigrants, as great, if not
greater, in volume, than we have ever
known before. Hon. THOMAS H. DUP
LEY, Consul at Liverpool. writes to Sec
rotary SRwARD. under date Of April 2,
that for the two previous months, every
e4aigrant vessel sailing from Liverpool to
the States, either with steam or sails, had
taken emigrsats to its utmost capacity
All the shipping houses were overrur
with applications, and every passage on
their respective vessels had been engag
Ell for months ahead. He says that the
only way to increase the emigration, so
far as Eng land and Ireland is concerned,
would be to increase the means of trans
portation. One Of these shipping
.
houses had told him that they could
send out SO, coo emigrants to the States
in two months il they had the ships to
carry them. From other sections OF
Europe this life stream is also running
TO our shores, though with less volume,
aud great as has been the expenditure OF
life in this war, it will probably be
compensated for. at least in point of mum
bers, by the activity Of immigration.
Wonderful must be the faith OF the
people Of the old world in the stability,
pssmsnescy and prosperity ofour govern.
ment and cur institutions. Was ever
such marvel seen as this of hundreds
Of thousands Of men, women and child
rem rushing to country distracted by
ono OF the most stupendous wars that
sks world has ever known? Even with
all our woes Of war, America is the
Mecca towards which the work. wearisd,
'Ileaid. starving, and oppressed masses
VI the old world are looking and moving.
And is there not in this, and in the
many other evidences of our nations
vitality, much TO make us confident of
the future. Settle this conflict, wipe
slavery from The land. open up the wide
and rich aIlwvisl bottom lands of the
SoSth, as weil as the valleys and prairies
oflhe West, TO the skill and energy of
free labor. draw in the working classes
OF Europe to help develope the great
agricultural and mineral resources which
aow lie untouched, and what kind of
load will this great War Debt, which we
mourn over. be for such people :? Why
fifty years ago. England had a debt of
eight hundred millions sterling, and see
how she has prospered. And yet we
have country immeasurably greater.
capable Of sustaining an infinitely great
er population, richer ia precious metals
than all tie world beside, wonderful
commerce, q rare capacity for agrcul-
tural product, a people never equalled
fo' intelligence. inventive genius. and
practical capacity. How little We will
care for such debt, scattered among
the 100 millions OF busy, producing peo-
pie, that this vast country will hold in
less than half a century! Ii is not debt
tlSat we should fear. 1t is only disinte-
grafton As people tina. we should shrink
from. Save us from division into petty
States--sase US from Mexican strife, and
turmoil. and insecurity, which this 70.
bellion means, and which its success will
insure-giye US a just, strong, central
government, able to preserve the nations
unity. but faithful to the con stitu.ion and
10 the central idea of freedom end Re.
publcanism which that constitution
represents, and we need give ourselves
no uneasiuess as to our capacity to stand
under eny probable load ofdeb..