The Cecil Whig., 1871-09-30
French Emigration.

The sensitiveness of the French after lord
ing it over Alsace, since its session in 1913,
and overL Lorraine, since the treaty of Vienna
in 1876, with a rent-charge during the life
of their protege Stanislas Lecziuzki, King
of Poland, has been touched to the quick
by the reverses of the Franco German war
Their military prestige has been lost, not
so much from any improvement in the
Prussian needle gun, as through the result
ant effect of the Prussian common school
and the Prussian high school system. The
French inhabitants of these provinces have
become moody, and now talk of a whole
sale emigration, as last and only resource.
But both Germany and France are inter-
ested in dverting these people from any
such purpose, and on settled principles of
political economy, the States and Territories
of the United States, where the foreigner
is always welcome, need not encourage an
emigration in such form. They are hesi-
tating, however, in regard to the special
direction they are to take after reaching
this country, and land companies are
propably vying with territorial agencies in
keeping up their discomfort with home
The whole of Virginia and West Virginia
is we'll enough suited for them; the noun
tain and valley region of North Carolina
would be open to their thrift and industry;
the State of Nevada, so unlike the cases of
Delaware and Rhode Island, as true balance
wheels in 17S7-17S9, but allowed to quit a
territorial condition with a population of
AZ, 491, for 1870, against the letter and
spirit of our complex form of Government,
could give ample room and verge enough
for all Alsace and for all Lorraine; and the
well-watered country on the east shore of
the Chesapeake, from Cecil to Worcester,
under a moderated infusion of this new
element in aid of agriculturing and manu-
featuring interests, could but confess to
new impulse. Nor would it be- any thing
new for this section of Maryland. The
Dutch ard Swedes had settled along the
Delaware in advance of English claims to
the territory; bnt both were driven out by
the English, and being forced further down
the Peninsula, it was so much gain for the
proprety government here. In the last Of
the Dutch Governors, Alexander D. YnioSsa,
the old Bay Hundred of Talbot acknowl-
edged public spirited man of intelligence
and weight and character. He purchased
Poplar Island, and died there, with sufici-
ency of Glands and beeves" for his bevy
of comely daughters as may fully appear
on reference to Liber A No. l., among the
record books of Talbot county, then sweep
ing as it did from the Choptank River to
the ".Sarifrar." Talbot comfy, though
not as old as Kent Island Hundred of 81.
Mary's county, was organized earlier than
Kent county. The names of her delegates
to the General Assembly ought to be called
after those from St. Mary's as more in
order of time, But this Dutch and Swed-
ish element was fortunately diffused over
the whole shore. Coming singly or in
families, foreigners in all the States and
Territorieo insure themselves a welcome;
but when emigration, en- nsdsse, is directed
towards any special locality, it retains too
clansh feeling for several generations
No good can grow out of this reluctance
to carry out the full and free scope of
Anglo American law and civilization.
The famous Edict of Nantes, by Henry
w., April 80, 1893, gave French Protest
ants full exercise of their religion, and
removed all their disabilities for civil and
military employment. 1t was the strong
healthy stride forward for French nation
ality. Its revocation, in an evil hour, by
Louis XIV, was full as disastrous for
France as any subsequent reverse could be
even the latest, suggesting their rumored
movement out of Alsacc and Lorraine. In
due time many of these Huguenots made
their way to the British colonies in Amer
lea to recognize in the respective commu-
mites, they selected for their homes an
earnestness of character like their own
Family Huguenot names were thus diffused
over New England, New York, the Jerseys
both shores of Maryland, as well as farther
South. Yet it has suited the purpose Of
historical writers to segregate these people,
as if only belonging, by right, to single
locality. Bancroft, in his rose-colored way,
would lead a South Carolinian to believe,
that being Huguenot of that ilk was to
be better than the best of those elsewhere.
1t so happened that the climate there was
supposed to be very well adapted to the
culture of the olive tree, and some French
Protestants went over in a body to be fol-
lowed, in like manner by Swiss, Irish and
Germans. The founders and proprietors
were pushing the fortunes of their colony,
but so far from the genius of the govern
ment and people being thus of Freuch
moulding, there is no State where more
pains were taken to render English thought
intense John Locke drafted the form of
government for South Carolina, and it
would be just as philosophical to set down
morals and manners in Maryland as having
been fashioned by the Lecomptes of
"Horn's'' Point, in Dorchester county, the
Maynadiers of White Marsh Glebe in
Talbot county, and..other French emigrants
over this State, on the score of our having
had Huguenot settlers. Like the Swedes
and Dutch on South Ricer, as the Delaware
was termed by the latter, the Huguenots
coming thus singly or by families, felt the
pressure of our peculiar laws and system
of social economy. They made no efforts
to change what they found; and an emigra-
ton, healthy and vigorous in all respects,
bettered itself when coalesed at once with
people already here. To this day it would
seem to be claimed for the peculiar phases
of political opinion, after South Carolina
school, something rather sublimated,
owing to its fancied early grated off
Huguenot stock. But here much injustice
is done to highly cultivated English think
er and radical writer, of alater generation,
but not whit behind Locke as specula-
tive philosopher in regard to government.
The whole dogma of notification was first
advanced and argued out for those adopt
ing it, by Doctor Cooper, removing in 1920
from Carlisle, Penn, to become the Presi-