Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-01-31

European Complications and Emigration.
We are glad to learn that the Committee
appointed by the late immigration meeting
in this city are busy at work digesting and
preparing plans to be submitted to future
meeting. Regular meetings of the Com
mittee are being held and correspondence
has been opened with leading officials and
agents in regard to the subject under con-
sideration. We wait with some anxiety
the result of these deliberations, trusting
that some practical measures may be de-
vised to catch share of the tide of emil
grafton which seeks our shores from the
Old World.
Writhing under the nightmare OF I'M
pending war, Europe, and especially Ger
many, never contributed SO large number
of immigrant arrivals, as shown by the
New York statistics, as at present. What
ever may be our condition, and however
much Americans may deplore the unhappy
complications in which their own country
is involved, it May be a consolation to
know that there is in Europe an increasing
number of people who regard the condition
of their own country at least much worse
than is ours. Misery, it is said, is miti-
gated Or aggravated by comparison, and if
this be true, we are certainly richly en-
titled to all the consolation this fact may
bring.
Reconstruction in Germany, under the
unifying policy of BISMARCK, appears more
unpopular to the sturdy Germans than is
Congressional Reconstruction in the United
States to the down-trodden people of this
section, and whether the German emf
grant acts wisely in giving way to the dis
contents, anxieties and local troubles in
augurated by Radical consolidationists at
home, to brave those of their fellow con-
solida tionists here, is not subject for dis
cussion with us. Much of the interest
manifested upon the question of immigra-
ton and the cause of much of the actual
emigration to this country, is the unpleasant
knowledge of their own troubles and the
blissful ignorance of ours while any blame
we might be disposed to bestow would
spring from profound ignorance of their
political and social difficulties, and q too
accurate knowledge of our own. Be this as
it may, it is certain that the military recon-
struction which Prussia is extending over
the smaller German States is extremely I'M
satisfactory at present, and gives uneasiness
in regard to future results.
The one great advantage which the
United States possesses over the govern
ments of Europe, and which evidently
strikes the German mind, is that our diff
culties and dangers are domestic entirely,
being free from international cemplica-
tons, which at any moment may involve the
Continent in war of vast magnitude,
and which, to the Cabinets of the leading
powers, is Sc probable that not less than
five millions Of men stand prepared to
march at moments notice. To be sure,
the military renown and prowess which our
government has achieved, although over
its own discontinued citizens and seeded
States, have been followed, as in Germany,
by converting the country into a military
camp, with the usual concomitants of such
costly indulgencies, increased taxation and
great local distress; still an Amy used only
to insult, degrade and Cypress, without
provocation and with impunity, an impov-
erished and helpless portion of our own
people, cannot continue to curse the coun-
try, as it has not the incentive to keep it
IN existence, which powerful and threat
ening neighbor would furnish. Whenever
the appetites of our Congressional cormo-
rants become satiated with the misery and
sufferings which the costly luxury of a stand
ing army brings upon the South, this army
can well be reduced to proportions consis-
tent with our form of government, appear
ing to European eyes nothing more than a
corporals guard.
When this does take place, the tax-eaten
and army-ridden people of the Old World
will turn their attention to the rich mines,
vast forests and fertile fields of the South,
which, under the influence of just legisla-
tion and kind policy, will prove safe and
happy asylum for the industrious and OPP
pressed poor of other countries.
With this view, we continue to urge our
people to form themselves into associations
and societies, appoint working committees
and agents, in order to inform themselves
as to the best mode to induce immigrants
to settle among us, and in order to do so,
to make known to them the vast advanta-
ges We possess, and are willing to share
with them. There is no future for our i'm
mediate section or State unconnected with
the settlement here of hardy, industrious
innmigrants-men who bring with them
their families, their means aud their enter
prise to build up the waste places of our
once rich, prosperous and happy country,
and not as worthless Adventures to make
our laws and fill our places of profit by
pandering to the ignorance and prejudices
of the lowest and most degraded portion
of our population.
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