Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-05-13

In four days, from April 18th to 18th,
Twelve steamships and one clipper left Liv.-
elpool for the United States with As many
enigrants as they could safely carry, If not
some hundreds over. The Liverpool Post
or the I6th f@mafks that ati1e great out
flow sincs the commencement of the regu-
lar season, indicates that the present. spring.
wiz witness the departure of many thou.
sands more people than during very
many years past" This large an
nnalL Increase il The outflow of1Earo-
peaps. is transferring Europe to America.
Old natives, with their revolutionary ideas
of 17Te, are becoming strangers in the land
of their birth. Immigrants from ireland,
England and Germany, bring their heredi-
tary religious and political feuds with them,
which they plant and cultivate in American
soil. Catholic and Protestant antipathies
are cherished as traditions Of inestirnable
importance. One church that is not milf
tant againstanotheru using the same Gospel,
Is regarded as no church at all. Civil war
must continue for centuries to come
as it has lasted for eighteen hun
died years in the asorrowful past.
What a pity that European christians can
not possibly leave their mutual unkind feel
ing and hatred behind them when they
plant their race in. the New World. Their
Tasmanian devil has left no fossil remains
on this continent and his worship IN this
free land can result in no good to mankind
either now or hereafter. Our educational
labor is herculeaD, for in addition to educa-
ting our present white and colored popula-
ton, the English agricultural laborers
and their children, who are COM
ing to this country. by tens
of thousands, are very ignorant.
They must all be raised to the American
standard of intelligence. What with the
most stupid agricultural operatives ofiGreat
Britain, the recent serfs of Russia, and the
benighted subjects of all Southern Europe,
can we make good voters and sovereigns of
all these foreigners, as well as of FIVE million
negroes born in Americs? Carefully sur
yeying the whole ground, it is clear that
our system of mental and moral culture
must be enlarged and improved, to save
our form of. government, our
lives, and our property.
American craftsmanship needs elevation
and purifying. Honest men must think
less of politicians and more If principles.
How many have been promoted for ques
tionable party services, who had neither
integrity nor capacity 10 recommend them?
Thu times are perilous. No one knows
what day may bring forth. Human.ca-
pacity appears not to expard with our pub
lie wants. A nation Of forty million souls
needs, perhaps, statesmen ten times wiser
than it did when it contsined four
mill on, or one-ten;h part Of
our present population. But
a people who love money more than wis
dom and virtue become poor in sound
craftsmanship in the same ratio that they
increase in wealth. A brain that thinks of
property and little else, is about as useful
to the world as human head turned to
clayor rock. To lose the infinite, is to die
prematurely, and be buried in the mire of
materislism. We can no more make de-
cent humanity than a decent President,
out of gold; it is not the right material.
The stuff to make men of is in fair way
To be lost from hnmsn society.