, 1869-06-17
TIE ErFEcts OF IkMIaRAr1oR.

ing, when consolidating the future of
country into which the moving curants Of
the worlds population are ever flowing
The Reri<sc points to the purity OF tha
American blood and the. distiuctness Of the
American race from other natiunalhea
prior to the revolution, and credits Us with
an enormous power Of assiulilating the ]
5,O0O, 900 of immigrants who have since
landed on om shores, one-ha]f Of whom
were e1iled, BY poverty, from Great Britain.
The Rtriew comedies that IN spite OF these
assisni1aions there ia still 1'no more pro
nounced national type than the American
We recognize him at glance IN any Euro
pean country with certainty which
is scarcely 80 great in ths case Of any other
people. Z his outward appearance is not
sufficiently distinctive, few words are
enough to hetray him"
But the question now hanging over the
future Of America is whether. this enor-
NOUS gastric power, this facility Of aszimi-
latiug, digesting and deriving national
strength from such direzse aecess1ons Of
foreign elements Of all Hnds, but princi-
pally Of those unkhlled in labor, and untn-
tored every way, can successfully continue.
The Rriep concludes with An uncommon
II wise doubt as TO whether, though re
seem to have successfully uaasicated and
swallowed at least nine courses
Of Europeans, the Chinese coming
Ii by way OF dessert, and run
ming over BY the million from country
having ten times our total population,
must not be the death Of ns. Fatal cases
cf orergrowth among individuals ara known,
but among nations they arc even more 1are.
| The very circumstances which combine to
| render country inviting to foreign labor
! ers are those which prove that the lAbo1ers
| who hare gone before them have been as
si1ni1ated and provided for, uaade seN-sup-
porting and thrifty, and Forwarded toward
competency and wealth When this ceases
to be Misfortune ct immigrants, whether from
Ireland, Germany or Chins, immigration
viii stop. So long as tho Immigrant pros
pera in his means Of livelihood, and becomes
a thrifder, hsppiez wor6nee9aan, he cannot
fail to advance in intelligence and morality,
and, consequently, to be less dead weight
on the progress of the world at large,
and more helper toward that progress
than If he had remained in his native land
But it is not equally clear that those on
whom The labor devo1ves Of ssaipoilating
him to higher civilization ere
themselves lifted up IN the process.
May not teacher have too many pupils
The civilization Of Greece and Rome sue
cumbed to the coarse aninas1isna Of tht
hordes OF Atsi1a and Rodeick, and why
should not the teaching sud assimilatine
powers in America yield haally In the ef
fost, seeing that, in the nsin, al na6on'
keep their intelligence and wealth and skal
at home, and send hither only those who 81
beaten in the race Of LIFE for want Of thes
powers? We a-e in the most liberal sens
the Is asylum for tho oppressed Of all ~
, tions,n md the oppressed are Of necessit
, the poor, the weak and the ignorant. Thos
, who have power, wealth, eaucation an
I skill are induced by these very advantage
3 to remain where they are.
r Doubtless the economical Talue OF imtu
l | grafton is often greatly miscouoeised AM
r exaggerated. Some of our official reports
+or instance, foot up the ralue Of every in
= migrant landing in this country at abor
J. fifteen hundred or two thousand dollar
and sa-, "Look at the addition to ous nj
8 honR wealth Last year We had 3o0, OK
: immigrants, equal in value to $3.50, ,ooo. .0o
!, SUN sufficient, in fve years, to OFFSET Il
y national debt" &C., ae. Now an INN
Il grant is worth to the nations wealth Il
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