Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-12-07
German sympathy with tine Oni'eo
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German sympathy with the UnAIed
states.
A correspondent from Berlin, Prussia gives
the following interesting account and expla-
nation of the German emigration to the
United States:
In no country in the world, Britain alone
excepted, the gigantic struggle IN the Gnitea
States Of America has been followed win sucn
intense interest as in Germany. The eXpla-
nation of this fact is obvious: Germany,
more than any other country IN the worlo
(except the United Kingdom) has helped to
make the Renublic of the United States what
il is. Next to the British Isles, Germany
has sent the largest contingent OF settlers to
America. More than five millions OF her
sons and daughters are citizens Of the United
States. Every other man has brother or
sister, IN uncle or aunt, and cousins and
other relatives of all degrees without numoer
on the western side Of the North Atlantlc'
From the confines of Russia and Poland
from the frontiers of Hungary and even iur-
key-from the coasts Of the Baltic, the Adrl-
attic, and the North Sea-from the smallest
and most remote hamlet Of the Interior
from the plains and valleys, as well as from
the capitals and manufacturing districts,
Germans of every rank, calling, and acquire
ment, have deserted the Fatherland that
treated them so apparently though they loved
il with such filial piety, and poured forth for
the best part Of century IN an unoroHeh
| and ever widening stream to JON their Irienus
and relatives on the shores Of the great West
ern Republic. The yearly increasing fleets OF
emigrant ships leaving the ports Of Hamburg,
Bremen, and Rotterdam are all bound WITH
the exception of small minority, for New
N nalk EIffann
AGO the tide of emigration had begun to turn
strongly in favor of Brazil but the nation had
no sooner learnt, through Herr SturZ, the
Prussian Consul General at Rio, that all
Germans who set foot on Brazilian soil were
destined to lot inferior to that of coolie,
than the emigration to Brazil ceased entirely
from that moment, and returned with greater
force than ever to its old channels. Since
that time the wave of emigration to the Uni
ted States has but once suffered serious in
terruption.
Partly owing to very natural feeling OF
timidity, or prudence, partly owing to the in
dustrious misrepresentation OF the friends
of the South in the Free States and in Eu-
rope, the emigration in the first year OF the
rebellion suffered great depression. 1t was,
in fact, reduced to one-fourth of that Of the
preceding year. When, however, the merits
Of the strife began to be seen in their true
light, emigration began to recover, and the
the numbers of emigrants during the prdsent
year are about equal to what they were i'm
mediately before the outbreak of the rebel
lion. The returns of the emigration boards
at Hamburg and Bremen show that up to the
end Of August in the present year 81, 405 per-
sons left this country BY way of those ports
to settle abroad. 0fthese l7,l59 emigrated
from Hamburg; Of whom, with the exception
of few hundreds who went to Australia,
and Il who proceeded to Brazil, the whole
went to the United States. Eighty-one ves-
sells carried the remainder, or 81 ,246 from the
port of Bremen. OF this total only Sc went
to Brazil, SO to the River Platte, and 5l3 to
Canada. All the rest settled in the United
States. In the same period last year only
l2,74S emigrcted from Bremen. During the
remaining four months of the present year it
is fair to estimate that nineteen thousand
more emigrants will leave the country by
these two German ports, while the number Of
those who proceed BY way Of the British,
Dutch, Belgian and French ports, as we'll as
Trieste, is estimatedto amount for the entire
year to 1900. This gives grand total OF
nearly $4,000 emigrants from Germany for
1864, of whom the overwhelming majority
100000 proceed to the United States. This
result is not, of course, equal to that Of the
years 1886, when an average of 20O,OOO
Germans emigrated from their native coun-
try. But those were extraordinary and en-
ceptional times. 1t is, however, the pub
lshed opinion Of the two great authorities on
German emigration-Consul- General Sturz
and DR.. Carl Won Scherzer-that the stream
of emigration will in future direct itself more
exclusively, and in Larger numbers than ever
before, to the United States Of America. 1t
is also worth mentioning that the Brazilian
Government has never been able to tempt the
German emigrant again to its shores, although
it has lavished vast sums for that purpose.