Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-18
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.


SCANDENAVTANINE EEsGR q ATsON..
For the past ten years emigration from
Denmark, Norway and Sweden TO this
country has been noticeably increasing.
The small rivulet of 1910 has swollen in
to fertilizing weaIth-producing stream
in 1870, and the descendants of the old
vikings, insatiabls conquerors, who first
Of Europeans, crossed the Atlantic to
seek fame or fortune or win the death
bought halls of their Walhalla in this un-
known West, are now peacefully adding
their annual thousands to that exodus
from the old world, which nourishes tie
vital powers and stimulates the pulses OF
the vigorous new world.
This spring sees the establishment in
Denmark of line of passenger steam
ships from Copenhagen to New York to
furnish direct transport to the thousands
who annually abandon the Lares of their
old Morse homes TO seek more ample free
dom, more easily acquired wealth in the
United States; this new line offers to the
Scandinavian emigrant cheaper and more
convenient means of reaching. this cont
nent than has been hitherto within his
reach, and supersedes for him the Ger
man and English routes via Bremen or
Liverpool.
Increased facilities win induce in
creased emigration, and the most industri-
Gus of the agricultural laborers of Den
mark, the most skillful of the minors of
Norway and Sweden viii be first to avail
themselves of this means of reaching our
shores, and by their intelligent labor
cause our valleys to blossom, our noun
tains to disgorge their hidden wealth.
We gladly welcome their advent, and
we trust that well directed effort may d.
vert this tide from the wild West and in
hospitable North to our own more genial
and temperate cline; there to delve in
our rich fields and in our coal, iron and
copper mines; TO exercise that skill which
has made them the most renowned of Eu-
ropean miners.
The time has passed when the ''Great
West" could offer any advantage over that
held out by the South, to the laboring i'm.
migrant or farmer of small means. Oul
lands are as fertile, the means of trans
portation and access to good markets
more easy, and our climate the mos
healthful and genial of the North Ameri
can Continent. Our people are ready ant
anxious to receive them, and will trea'
them with kindness and hospitality they
will not find in other regions, viii pay
them fair days wages for fair days
work, or sell them, on good terms ant
reasonable price, large or small tracts Of
land. We sincerely hope that the time
is not distant when direct lines of Scandi
navian steamers to Norfolk and Charles
ton may discharge their living freight up
on Southern soil, to find in the Carolinas
Virginia, Georgia, and notably in beauti
full and healthful Tennessee, happy ant
prosperous homes.
| These Mortimer have, wherever plant
ed by the skill of agents and drummers
/ or the enterprise of railroad companies,
made valuable laborers and estimable citi
zens the fields and forests of Minnesota,
Iowa and Missouri, and the mines of
Illinois and Wisconsin alike attest their
skill, intelligence and industry; and even
the cotton fields of Mississippi, with theil
drawbacks of malarial climate, have given,
this past season, favorable witness to their
efficiency.
The facility with which these people
learn to understand and speak our Ian
guage, otherwise extraordinary, may be
readily understood when we recollect that
they are of kindred Gothic stock with our
English progenitors, and that of the
| SO, 900 words, radical and derivative,
which compose the English language,
%, 900 are of Saxon, Scandinavian, not
Teutonic origin. The early English
chroniclers, and poets preceding Chaucer,
are probably more ineligible to the Dane
Ignorant of English-than to the Ameri,
can.
The history of Scandinavia is as heroic
as her early poetry and SjGlda arc
glorious; rarely the victim, they have
never been the instruments of oppression,
and we bid hearty welcome, with HiLSen
and Jdir ORSker, to all who may avail
themselves of the advantages offered
by our beautiful State.