The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-06-30

while in fact the whole population Was at
that time, exclusive of slaves, about thirty
millions. immigration had therefore add
ed twenty million nine hundred and sixty
five thousand seven hundred and ffty-fve
since that year. Incrcditable as it may
appear, it is probably true that the Old
World has during the last eighty years
poured into the United States the mighty
host which now, with the natural increase,
composes two thirds Of our entire white
population.
And this grand exodus is still going on.
Headed by the Irish and tbs German, eve
ry nation of Europe is sending her recruits
to swell the prodigious stream of human
life as it flows across the ocean and over
the continent, scattering and covering our
vast domain like the leaves of the forest.
The last year brought US the gigantic army
of more than three hundred and fifty two
thousand souls. 1t is indeed an army
grand and mighty as an army with ban
ners" coming to conquer not US or our
children, but to join US and them in sub
DUNG continent, and conquering the
highest and noblest civilization of the ages
Their banners are inscribed with words
Of peace and good will to men," and they
come to cast in their lot with ours and
share with Us the great inheritance of civil
and religious liberty. They come with
stout hearts and strong minds, to share the
evils, bear the burdens, and enjoy with us
the blessings of this New World. They
abandon the laws. the traditions, the hab-
its, and the associations of their ancestors,
and conform obediently and voluntarily to
the Constitution and laws of the Republic.
There need be no fears that they will over
run the land and outnumber the natives.
They have done this already.
If their purpose and mission were to
overthrow our civilization, overrun and
conquer the land by their numbers, the
work would already be accomplished. But
they come animated with the same spirit
of liberty, imbued with the same love Of
free government, and inspired with the
same high hopes and lofty aspirations for
the glory and renown of this, our common
country, that filed the founders of the Re-
public Let the intolerant traducer, too,
stand confounded when he charges that
they are paupers, sloughed and rejected by
the oyer-pecpled countries of Europe, CONS
to eat out and destroy our substance. All
our past history and experience are against
him. 1t is well ascerlained that by the
three hundred and tifty-two thousand souls
immigratiDg annually the country actually
gains more than a million dollars day,
and that immigration within the last
twenty five years has increased the nation
al wealth more than five thousand nillion
dollars
But immigration has done and is doing
vastly more than this for the United
States. 1t should not be overlooked that
as the vast tide flows on from the Atlantic
to the Pacificit leaves here and there and
all along the stout-hearted farmer and the
sturdy and industrious mechanic, whose
labor and enterprise are adding other mil
lions to the taxable property and wealth of
the country. The forests fall, and dwell
hngs Of comfort and luxury are raised up
everywhere as if by magic, and fruitful,
productive, and luxuriant immigrant farms
cover the broad prairies, the valleys, and
the mountain sides from one ocean to the
other, the value Of which no man can
count. And this is not all. The immigrant
Is part OF the body polite. He is not be-
coming, but he has become a part Of our
elves. lie is everywhere among us. He
IS in every department of the Government,
filling positions in the States and in the
Republic the most delicate, the most re-
sponsible, the most honorable and the
most sacred. He is of the skilled work.
men, the teachers, the scholars, the poets,
the historians, the men of science, the
doctors, the lawyers, the clergy, the phil
osophcrS, and the statesmen. lie fights
our battles commands our armies, makes
our laws. He is here or the floor of this
House and in the Senate He gives I'M
petus to thought and energy and enter
prise to scieLcc. He facilitates the exc
cution of every species Of private and pub
tic work. There is not man here or else
where throughout all the land who does
not feel his power, whose mind and heart
have not been moved and influenced, whose
moral, intellectual, aud physical life has
not been swayed and shaped by this con-
tact, this meeting and mingling of nation
ailties on the American continent, All
these things are not susceptible Of valua-
ton.
The arrivals thus far indicate large in
crease OF this over former years. ireland
especially seems moved by new impulse
Every vessel from there comes freighted
with her hardy and stalwart sons, fleeing
from sorrows and expressions which they
will no longer endure. Not content with
serdlng her thousands, it seems a. though
she had made up her mind to come her
self. Other countries on the continent
present similar indications of large in
crease. SO that with no new impediments
thrown In the way, with no unfriendliness
on our part or hostile legislation to check
or change the current as 1t is now setting
In, we may we'll anticipate a most prosper
ous future in that regard
And, sir, in view of the immense debt
aid taxation depressing and weighing US
down into the very dust. in view of the
enormous sum per capita that this debt
imposes upon the present population, as
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