The Goodhue volunteer., 1864-01-13
Wisfellanspns 8eaaiug.

Misgellanspna Beaaing.
Increase Of Population and the Future.
During eleven months Of the year now
closing, one hundred and thirty-six thous
and cmgrants from various nations of the
old world left the port Of Liverpool for the
United States. lhc record shows the in
|clease over the eleven months of last wear
to be seventy one thousand six hundred
and eighty seven.
1t is rather remarkable tina, immigration
should have thus increased during the pre-
valence of our gigantic, civil war and in
view Of the present and prospective burthens
of that war. The explanation exists in the
fact which these emigrants have looked for
and found, that the advantages offered by
virtue Of the high wages Of the country
|generaily as contras.ed with Europe-the
opportunities for immediate and constant
employment, and the benefits Of our land
|sys'em, outweigh all the disadvantages
threatened, or burthcns created by the
war.
The state Of things developed by these
statistics is highly encouraging. When Inc
the national bankruptcy is prophesed in
view Of present debts and expenditures, we
may turn to these facts with the utmost
confidence rot only that the national resour
ces are almost if not quite inexhaustible,
but that those resources are to b, made
available as needed. Beyond question an
old and If: te nation would sink to unquali-
fed despo,isn and dependence, or unquali-
fed ruin under the debt We are accumulat.
ing. Any it is by contrast with such ma
tons and that timid ones borrow their fears
OF ultimate bankruptcy. But there is no
room nor ground for such comparisons.
We are lik: no other nation on earth. We
have capacity which is just beginning, as
ii were, to be developed. Our resources
have yet scarcely been touched. We have
been but skimning over the surface. En-
ergies which have heretofore slnmbered have
been reused by the war, and will be turned
with reslstless force to the real labor of na-
t,onal development and progress. There
is no figure yet mentioned as the probable
extent of Our debt. which will not be 4peed
lily overtopped by the annual increased pro-
duc:ion within our boundaries. In this
work, this immigration will play very
necessary part.
And doubtless the increase of the past
year will be PARALLEL in the years to come.
10 borrow the language Of IN exchange be.
fore US, 'the sturdy, honest working classes
of Europe are willing to cast their lot with
US, and if need be. share the perils Of our
war. They know that our country IS un-
bounded in its resources. They know that
the countrymen who have gone before them
have realized their iondest hopes, and that
their children asd their children's children,
have, by their intrinsic worth, advanced to
the highest positions of wealth and power
liz the land. And in the nations Of the
Old World, where nearly every family can
count thriving branch o. the Original
stock in the United States, the people feel
that they have an interest and / welcome
here. zz5 >.@.<.... ..s- ~ ,.s..z..
The United States IS connected with the
nations ofEurope by stronger ties than those
|of treaties. diplomacy and international
law. They ars the lies of kindr;d, Of E.m
lily associations and recollections and when
i foreigner lands upon cur shores, no mat
ter from what nation be mar come, BE finds
his own people and open arms 70 receive
HIM Our growing. working and paying
Icountry offers substantial inducements tor
emigration. which no temporary difseui.y
can stop, and which no civil var can stor.
and which 70 civii war can arr.se The
hearts and the hopss o. Che peopI. Of En-
rope are with our cooatry, and with every
Opportunity thsy come 70 rs and csst their
ser;uses II the Land Of Lisersy.