New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-29

! ticed by some emigration agents, who have
| been reported to Rome by the undersigned,
and will be brought before the Judiciary
| authorities, who only in Italy, as in the
| United States are empowered to investi-
| gate and punish such frauds. The executive
| power has no right to do it without their
| intervention; and | can not understand the
reason why the Americans, who are so
| little accustomed to depend on the assist
| ance of their government, and who
! know quite well that the government is
! their agent and not their master, are always
| laying all response bilitY at the door of the
| government Of other free nations. Much
stress is laid on the fact Of the extreme
hardships to which these people from South
! eIn Italy will be exposed arriving here in
| the winter season; but let it be well under
| stood that their belonging to the southern
| provinces does net imply that they are only
! accustomed to warm climates. They came
| from the Abruzzi and other places inter
| sected by the Appenlne range, where the
| winter is certainly more severe than in New
! York. But let US admit, for the sake of ar
| gument, that all these Italians have been
! cruelty deceived and robbed; that all of
| them arrived starving and freezing. and in
! the most abject condition. 1t seems to
| me that these very circumstances
! ought to be an additional reason
! to wake in their favor the most benevolent
feeling in every Christian heart, and not
the striking luminosity and caIumnious in
situations against which they have had to
contend since their first appearance. With
out the smallest foundation they are repre-
sented to be quarresome and dishonest. An
alteration between two of them is magni-
fed into wholesale butchery pocket
knife on their person Ia tool rather than a
weGpOn) into bushels of stilettos; the
simplest analogy of local costume,
yri+ viii ~ II
quainted is sufficient to cause them all to
be qualified as era Diavolo."
1t has been asserted, for instance in al
most all the local papers that their passage
on board OF the Italy and Queen was at
tended by continual fights and stabbing
atrays among themselves. The assertion
was so positive that 1elt it to be my duty
to inquire into the facts, and addressed my
self tor that purpose to Mr.. Hurst, manager
OF the National line, entreating him to tell
me frankly, without palEiating any circum-
stance, what truth there was in the report.
| transcribe his answer:
NATIONAL STEAmsHTP CcMPAxY,}
New York, DeCemberH 1872.
F. de Lu"a, ESQ, Italian Consul General in New
York:
DEAR SIR-In reply to your inquiry as to
the behavior of the Italian emigrants on
board the Italy aud the Queen, have much
pleasure in stating that both Captains
Thompson and Andrews spoke of them as
very quiet and peaceable people, and / can
not discover that there was any fighting on
board of either of these ships among them.
or, in fact, any unruly conduct.
l forward a letter from Captain Andrews
for your information. The Italy having
gone to sea, am unable to send YOU SINH
lar one from Captain Thompson, hut on her
return I will take pleasure in taking it. |
am, dear sir, yours truly
+. w. j. HURST, Manager.
NEW YORK, December II, 1872.
italian Consul General of italy
DEAR SIR-As some comments have been
made in the New York newspapers about
the way the Italian emigrants behaved
themselves or their recent voyage in the |
steamer Queen, from HaYre to this port, |, |
who have been ia charge of ships which !
have carried several thousands of emf |
grants to this country, can only say, and |
prove, that the Italians on board the Queen |
behaved themselves equally as well as any |
| have ever carried. / remain |
yours truly G. H. ANDREWS.
TIaster Steamship Queen.
Their conduct since their arrival in this |
city confirms the assertions of the above |
letters, and proves that they do not deserve |
to be placed so low in the moral statistics |
of the European emigration to this country |
IL IliCy dAC lOLuiiI uuCNhS0EtCtt, IL SUllS VI
them are unfortunately addicted to beg
gIng, they are exempt from more obnoxious
found in other aliens. 1t must
not be overlooked that Italy has only twelve
years of a new existence, and that twelve |
years Of liberty DO not suffice to obliterate
the effects Of twelve centuries of tyranny.
To add to the misfortune of these poor
people, they were also asserted to be idle
and useless for any work; and this. from
he very day of their landing, before there
lad been any opportunity of a6certaining
heir capabilities. These judgments q pri-
)rj are a sin, not Only against equity, but
against practical common sense. Let them
irst have fair trial, and then be Judged
Thus, tor instance, twenty-eight of them
we're sent to work in Vermont. Two only
we're returned and twenty-six accepted.
The press, however, reported that the whole
twenty -eight were sent back as incapable,
p che same way thaS the disOrderT con
iuCt of two OF three in the whole fifteen
hundred had been sufficient to have them |
Ill characterized as convicted criminals.
4 can testify TO their sOberness, parsimOnv
md willingness to work, even at small
wages. 4 good portion of them are arti-
ans, who would already have found occu-
patton in New York had they met with a |
more benevolent and less hostile reception.
There are among them excellent agricultu-
lists, who would prove valuable acquisi-
ions on the farms Of many States OF the
MON, especially the wino-grOwing dis
riots, and the remainder are apt to any
utdo0r work they may find. Moreover, /
an testify that from two to three thousand
f this same Class-nay, from the same
owns and vilIages-have been in the
United States for year or two, and not
ne OF them has ever given any trouble to
he Italian COnsUlates, nor so far as can be Z
scertained, to local authorities. Their
cry ignorance of the language is a :
of assiduous and faithful work.
as it keeps them from diversions
nd out Of trouble. Wherever and by {
rh0msOever employed, they have always l
wen satisfaction, and are doing well and
ending money to their families in Italy as
know from personal and daily experience
| forwarding through the EcOnsuls office
lelr money orders. This continual trans =
Ission Of money is the sole reason, in fact {
lat now brings here such nun bers Of their '
and taere is no necessity to l
ok for the origin of this extraordinary c
zodus in inconsistent and Injurious hy-
7thesea. Z
conclude, however, by saying that if
lis class of emigration is not absolutely c
anted here the best mode to repress their S
)n1ux is the one | have suggested already
the commissioners, namely, let the
nited States legation in Rome publish in
re Italian papers a notice warning those o
migrants against the hardships to which q
ley will be exposed in coming here in the +
,ndition they do. Whatever advice might q
} given by the Italian government, how G
7er sincere and we'll meant, would be
oked upon with suspicion, as directed to
leck the emlgratiOn; while, coming from
IL representatives of the country to which d
icy intend going, and which has such a j
tai interest in drawing the largest num- U