Evening star., 1867-03-19
lMNINRATION-

There are good reasons Tor anticipating this
season tide or emigration from Europe in
excess of thar of last year, enormous as Il
was. Ii Il stated that in some OF the villages
OF Prussia one-third of the population will
leave for America this sprIng German cor
resPondence published in the North west rep
resests the preparations for emigration as IN
precedented in their magnitude. They are
coming by hundreds OF thousands" declares
the 81. Paul Pioneer on the authority of Ger
man informants, and the statement il ccrrob-
GRATED by much that has appeared IN other
journals. The efforts whic some of the South =
ern States are making TO draw white labor
from Europe will also produce considerable
effect.
To secure portion of the advantages which
will accrue to the country from this accession
Of capital and labor should be the aim of eyery
comm unity, and those States which do not
avail themselves OF the opportunity thus Of
fered TO ih~m are behind the age few OF the
Southern Stares are al length waking up TO the
fact that immigration will complete their rail-
roads, restore their credit, supply their trsasu-
uries, lessen taxation, secure true progress. re-
alize their mineral wealth and improve their az
ricultural, commercial and manu:acturing ca
Paollities- III Is now two years since the Legis-
lature of the State of Missouri created by law
State Board of immigration, under great
difficulties and in presence of a powerful on
position, which board is accom- pIishine graat
results for that State. The Governor in his
late message to the Legislature, urgently recon-
mends that means be placed at the disposal of
this ard TO continue Its work of advertising
and illustrating the material and industrial
resources of Missouri. To show what has al
ready been accomplished. he says:
"a twelyemonth has brought hundreds of
thousands OF people, with their wealth of
properly and labor, to stengtheR our financial
ability No parallel exists to the rapidIty with
which wealth has accum ulated n .yery ave
nue. OF industry, and with which population
mas increased IN every part OF our State within
tne past year. Su bs;antIal proofs Of amazing
prosperity on every hand. attest the sudden
and unprecedented growth of the State Our
taAabie wealth has grown from SI9-,602.2l6 in
Ico5, and from S262,35i, ,9t]2 1S65, to a sum
which. by the means OF the law estabIIsbtn1a a
state Board for the equalization OF taxes, passed
al the last session, will reach SiOO.O 200
Even California, the land of gold, does NOT
rely on her auriierous deposits to augment her
population. but meetings are now being held
there to consider the best means of inducing
Imigration to that State. Maryland and Viz
gina however, cannot see the advantages of
AN increase OF laborers, and the Ieei sIaturas of
both States have rejected bills to encourage
lmIgration. The Virginia Senate passed a bill
appropriating $1,000 for the purpose but il
failed in the House. Tne spirit which promp,s
such suicidal policy is shown in the speech of
nj Hambrough, one of the nti-progressiye
Virginia Legislators, who said:
If he had his way he would surround Old
Virginia with q wall forty feet high, and il
should be a little better than perpendicular: il
should incline outward at the top, and be as
sick as glass, and surmounted by a cheraux de
Jr1se, making u impossible for any CaImuck
Iartar 10 climb over. If he understood this
Dill, " was designed 10 encourage immigration
INTO the State of the very scum and spew and
on-scourings of Europe. If we wanted i'm
provement, we had sadly degenerat-d from
our noble ancestry. II we had degensrated
and our stock wanted a cross IL should not be
cross from ours of a low degree &c ;, 30
MI Dickinson, OF the State Senate. seems 10
nave ideas more In accordance with the spirit
of the age and common sense. He said:
The inducements 10 immigration mus, ba
heIo out In Virginia, and not jim Europe and
we must offer advantages which would no.
only orIng us immigrants but induce them to
stay when they had come, or else we might
BGp0rt millions of immigrants, and millions
would leave as fast as others came in Our
lands were held TOO high 10 induce immigra-
uon, and unless some new policy were inau-
gurated by our land owners, all attempts in
fnat direction would be futile