The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-02-03
NO. 243.
Emigration 20 tho United states.
TIE LONDON TINES WANTS THE rRrsH 10
REMAIN rs IRELAND.

Emigration 30 tho United states.
TIE LONDON TINES WANTS THE IRISH TO
REMAIN Is IRELAND.
From the London Times, January 6l
Mr.. LincOln's late message to the Fed
eral Congress contained passage which,
though apparently Of slight interest COM
pared with other statements Of the man
ifesto, deserves attentive notice and re-
fiection on this side Of the Atlantic. 81
again" said the President, submit to
your consideration the expediency Of es-
tablishing . system for the encourage
ment Of immigration. Although this
source Of national wealth and strength is
again flowing with greater freedom than
for several years before the insurrection
occurred, there is still great deficiency
in every field Of industry, especially in
agriculture and in our mines, a. well in
iron IS the precious metals. While The
demand for labor is thus increased here,
tens of thousands of persons destituts %
remuasratiVe occupations, are thronEinr
our foreign consulstes aud Offering to en-
igrate to the United States il essential
but very cheap assistance can be afforded
them"
These words record some remarkable
facts. The FIRST effect Of the civil war 10
America was 10 check emigration to that
country, and even to draw some Of its
population away from it. A few fami-
lies, il was said, actually returned TO
England in dismay, while many crossed
the northern frontier and took refuge in
Canada from coming troubles. But this
result, though natural in itself, was Of no
great duration. The demand for men
quickly enhanced TIE value of the sup
ply. The drain Of the war rendered labor
scarce, and the exigencies Of military
service opened immsdiate and attractive
engagements 10 the immigrant. A bounty
Of e150 down, and an allotment Of land
in prospect constitute inducements
enough to outweigh the other cOntingsn-
cies of campaigning. So the stream Of
emigration, as Mr.. Lincoln truly states,
and as we shall presently explain more
particularly, began t) flow once more,
and is now rushing along in full volume.
Still, however, IS is confessed, the sup
ply is unequal 10 the demand, and the
President suggests that, instead of TAX
ing it as il comes, the Federal Govern
ment should now itself adopt measure to
attract and increase it:
There is nothing to surprise Us in the
results thus shown. During the last
three years the Federal Government has
called out for service about 100000
men, of whom il is computed that fully
500, 600 have been killed OF disabled.
Such q drain creates an extraordinarY
vacuum in the population, and labor, al
WAYS valuable in America, is now at an
exorbitant premium. The speculatiors
which presumed that war, with its con-
scription and taxation, would frighten
away emigrants from the United States
aud divert the stream 10 Canada OF AUG
tralia, took no sufficient account Of the
prodigious rise in the labor market which
the demand Of the war would occasion.
An emigrant is now far more welcome
aud worth more at New York than ia
any former year, and emigration has been
stimulated accordingly. To the class Of
persons who seek better fortune in new
home present advantages are always like
ly to appear more important than cOntin-
gent drawbacks. They now hear that
labor, whether in q civil or military ca
pacity, commands an extraordinary price,
aud they give themselves IS little thought
as the native Americans themselves about
the ultimate consequences Of the reVOlu
tion through which the country is pass
ing; so they make sure of the present,
and run the risks of the future. They
rush 10 America in greater crowds than
ever, me TO enlist ia the Northern ar
mics, some to Gil the gaps in the popu.a-
ton which this enlistment creates.
As q practical illustration Of these
conclusions we publish a detsiled &C.
count Of the emigration from Liverpool
during the year just passed. Let us 1rst
premise that in 1862, when the feeliag Of
alarm still preponderated. the emigrant8
from that port were but 64,3l3 ia num-
ber-a fact which will at once enable u8
10 appreciate the statistics af 1863 Last
year these numbers were 137 932 50
that the rate was more than doubled.
That the vast majority Of these emi
grants were sieerage passengers, that
they were Of Irish extraction, and that
their destination was the United States,
are all facts Of similar signi6cance; but
there are one or two deductions suggest
ing more special notice. Il is perfectly
clear, from the ebb and flow Of tbo
stream that the force at work has been
attractive, and not repulsiys; in other
words, that Irishmen have left their ma
tive land in greater numbers than usual;
not because their oWu home was less toll
erable, but because their new home sp-
peared more desirable than before. At
frat they were scared By the aspects Of
the war, and emigration slaeksnsd; then
they discerned that Whatever the war
might do ultimately, II would better their
lot materially for the time, aud emiTa-
tion commenced anew. Nexi, We may
observe that this influx Of men, however
convenient it may have proved 10 tho
Northern Government, can only have con.
tributed in . small proportion 70 tie
maintenance Of the Federal armies. lt
appears that about 10000 Irish sailed 20
the United States from Liverpool, and it
is computed that 26 600 more were csrri-
ed 10 the same destination from Irish
ports Of call. Perhaps, upon the whole,
we may conclude that IS many as 100
900 persons were transported from Ire
land TO America in the course % the
year. But this, even imagining them 10
be sll adults Of military age, and al dis
posed 70 take service, would only give .
supply Of some 2OCO men . week, where
as the waste Of the Federal armies was
recently declared By q New York states
man TO amount to 200 men . day II
we take the two yeara, 1862 and 1863.
together, We shall find that some 100000
persons emigrated from Liverpool % the
States supply from which only q
moderate contribution could be made %
. levy Of 100000 men.
By an order dated st HuntsYiile, Ala
bams, January 22d, we observe that
General George Crook has
turned over the command Of the ID Cav
airy Division 70 Colonel A. v. Miller. Of