The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-07-08

migration which preceded it, results
from reciprocal conditions of industli-
al and social life in Europe and Amer
lea OF the mass of immigrants who
arrive on our shores, far the largest
number go Immediately into The occu-
pations of peaceful industry. Those
on the contrary, who are susceptible
TO the attractions of military life vol
unfairly enter the national service with
q similar class of our own native citi-
zens, upon the same equal inducements
and with the Same patriotic motives.
There is no law of nations and no
principle of international comfy which
requires us to refuse their aid in the
cause of the country and of humanity.
The government does not repudiate
or discourage immigration. The gov
eminent frankly avows that it encour-
ages immigration from all countries
but only by open, lawful and honorable
agencies and means. However states
men in other countries may have at
the beginning misunderstood the ma
ture and direction of the present civil
war, that nature and that direction were
not misunderstood by the government
of the United States. 1t was fOreseen
here that the seditious attempt to Ill
vide the American Union, if not dis
couraged by other commercial and
maritime powers, would not merely
produce great commercial and social
embarrassment in the United States
but that if it should be persisted in and
protracted, it must seriously disturb
the commerce and industry OF other
nations. Upon this ground, among
others, the government of the United
States earnestly demonstrated with for
eign States against their award of I'M
usual commercial and bellgerent priv
ileges TO the insurgents, in derogation
Of the sovereignty of the United States.
When, however, 1t was fully disclosed
that the Instruction aimed at nothing
less than to separate fifteen of these
States from the rest, and to reestablish
them within our own lawful territory
as one single Independent nation, upon
the foundation of African slavery, this
government did not hesitate, SO far as
authorized by law, to draw upon all
the resources of the country, and to
call into activity all the energies of the
American people to prevent SO great a
crime. 1t farther resolved to devote
its best efforts, within the limits of in
ternational law and the constitution of
the United States first, to bring Ami
can slavery to an end throughout the
world; and secondly, to strengthen the
interest of free labor upon the Ameri-
can continent. 1t recognized and en-
tered INTO commercial relations with
free States founded on African col0ni-
zation 1t refused market for slaves,
and il pursues the slave trader on the
high seas, and denies to him an asylum
on our own shores. On the contrary,
it invites honest and Industrious free
men hither from all parts of the world,
and gives them free homes and ample
fields, while it opens to them virgin
mines and busy workshops, with all
the privileges of perfect civil and re
ligious liberty. SO far as increase OF
immigration has resulted from the ac-
ton OF the government during the
present civil war. it IS due exclusively
to what has tlhs lawfully been done
with those two ends OF cxtinguishing
slavery and fortifying freedom always
in view. Nor has this government any
reason to be disappointed with the re-
suits The country has sustained a
very destructive war for the period Of