New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-13

crisis of 1857 had frightened Of many .i OF
those who wanted to make ,d d6i"6 ~ go
iaLor of their hands In 1853 and 1917 only t9,oo'
and ~ 10 emigrants respectively arrived III SM,
York while i'm 1856 theirnumber amOuhIeG 70 I1~ig'
and i'm 1851 To 1sG 73 In 1860 1t rose 70 no. DG.,
anu i i 81 the civil war. which broke out III
1851 il fell again IN 1901 10 100, anu e. NV
G8O6 In 1861 the German a L han ~ GOO
York increased over that OF 100 DIV more IlaIl
in which aforementioned year u had alIeauS -
tho large number Of lO61l6 souls lts lanhs ,i, ~
sWelled in 1867 in consequence OF the eiiBIa'iOL
men liable 20 military service from the new Pii1UN
inces annexed 10 Prussia ~ 1850, ana Oh tsTi
Nybicb.were dissatisfied with the new OlueI V i
IIanoyer contributed the largest share 70 thls huu
of emigration. In 1868 the tide suOslue4 aeaIi ao
people began to become reconcIIeu 70 'H0 0UuO0"
In short. bad times in Europe regularly increase
and bad times I'M America n'dilaOly uHliI'i'N' iN
migration" -,
IntboIast confurv. and measuraby, throughout the
first ouarter of this the immigration TO this country
Dpareely made up of "Tedemptioners, added 1T
tie ournational wealth beyond the value embodied
in their stout and willing arms Since then. however
their average pecuniary condition has steadily i'm
proved until Mr.. Kapps estimate-founded on much
observation and intimate acknowledgements the
average value Of the property they bring with them
$3.50 Der head which, if they number $4,000 per an
nun, gives an addition TO our national wealth. Oh
900 from this source. OF this aggregate prob
ably S2OOOOOOO comes in the form Of money or OF
bills Of exchange, which subserve the same END il re-
ducng the heavy balance of trade against us.
Nor is this all The official returns clearly indicate
an improvement in the industrial capacity OF our IN
migration In the four years 1S57-G0 inclusive, the
number Of immigrants reported as Mechanics was
but 5G19i; while for the four years lS6j-CS, the
number so reported was S7,42l-an increase which l
am confident would not have been shown had not
the former been an Of relative Free Trade while
the latter was one of Protection.
Immigration IS not an unmlXed good. Very much
depends on its quality. SAID stout sensible, prac-
teal Capt. John Smith, writing home to the London
Company which had employed him to found the
Colony of Virginia, from amidst the unpromislng
material with which they had supplied him, " When
you send again, entreat You rather to send but
thirty carpenters, husbandmen, gardeners, usher
men. blacksmiths. masOns and diggers-up Of trees
roots we'll provided than a thousand Of such as we
have A good many colonizers and founders OF
states have preferred similar requests, though
seldom with equally pressing reasons Tor
so doing If all the thieves and harlots'
blacklegs and beggars, of Europe, were to profter
US assurances of their distinguished consideration
proposing to honor with the light OF their counte-
nance on and after the opening of the next SPRING
we should doubtless advise them of our ability and
willingness to spare them that proof OF their alice
ton. Their coming would add largely to cur num-
bers but nothing at all to our strength, our worth
happiness, Hence, we nave Always ltpSAlOu a.
adding insult to injury every detected attempt OF
German princelings or Belgian municipalities to
saddle us with the care and subsistence of their GRIM
inals. Migrants. or paupers. Doubtless these have,
through collision with sea-captains, been thrown
upon our charity by thousands without eliciting
even remonstrance but that was because the
wrong was committed adrOtly as to escape detec-
tion whenever we have learned that a European
prison or pOorhouse had been emptied on our shores
we have resented it a dastardy outrage. And, on
the other hand, we have welcomed every immigrant
40 matter how poor and iliterate who brings hther
an honest heart and two brown hands, as a posi-
tive aud valued acquisition Though he have less
than sovereign or napoleon in his pocket, if he
steps ashore able and willing to WELD the spade and
the pick-ax he is priced as an accession to our
strength and our wealth.
And while stout ditcher collier is justly thus
valued thoroughly sldllful and capable engineer or
lrtifcer is a stin more precious acquisition. In
winning Agassiz from Europe, obtained an ac-
QUESTION of greater value than twenty day-aDorers
could we at the same time have won Lieblg likewise
we should have justly been more proud OF our ac-
QUESTION than though it had been another Alaska or
ST. Thomas Had it pleased God to SEND us watt
and Arkwright and George Stephenson in their
early manhood, the gift would have been worth
more 10 us than Canada or Mexico.
Now one inevitable consequence Of the establish
ment of Manufactures on our soil has been the
attraction to our shores of higher order OF indus
trial ability Tor faculty. 10 good old word IN its
wholesome Yankee signifCanCel than we formerly
did or could otherwise hope TO do. We could not
expect 10 draw men of high capacity hither until we
could proffer them congenial and remunerative en-
ployment Roebng or an Elias Howe is even less
likely to be attracted TO citizenship in Paraguay or
Abyssiuia than to be developed from among her
indigenous population. If we had been content
with Agriculture as a National pursuit, we should no
more have drawn hther the better class Of European
artisans than developed the inventive and higher
industrial powers Of our native born population As
II Is while we have on the one hand enriched the
world by our great inventions we have enriched
ourselves by putting to use among us the great
inventions simultaneously produced on foreign SOIL
When Louis XIV, misnamed the Great, revoked
the edict Of Nantz whereby Henry ~. had guaran-
teed religious liberty to all Frenchmen of whatever
communiOn-when Louis set on his booted apostles
TO hunt the Potesants out of France OF out Of the
world-he did not realize that he was driving away
the most precious wealth of his kingdom. 1t was
not the loss Of million and half of her people
that thus crippled and impoverished France; it was
the fact that these were in large measure manufac
turers aud artisans the most intelligent, ingenious
and skillful of her people. They carried with them
into their enforced exile arts which their native
land. so unworthy Of them, could hardly spare they
bore away to Germany Holland, Great Britain,
industrial devices and processes the loss Of which
France still mourns Her marvellous genius, Palsy
who lived to exat by his achievements Pottery from
its former low estate into of the rarest and loft
est of the useful arts nearly lost TO her by this
stupid, brutal despOtism, which failed TO sec in
persecution for conscience sake the invasion of a