The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-29
FOREIGN IMMIGRATION.

fW 'V''VH uFuptCi III liic ioo"o VI ~ |"i
rent in this country, has an article on
Foreign Emigration to the United
States" in which IL traces the foundation
OF the thirteen colonies by British i'm
migrants. and the slight admixture OF
Danes, Swedes, IIollanders and Ger
mans whose imprint in the names OF
localities especially can be followed in
New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The Graphic, following the historic move
ment Of settlement, says that at the time
Of the revolution ''the bulk Of the white
inhabitants were OF British and Irish
origin, who chad no special reason to love
the mother country, for the English
had been expatriated by successive
religious prosecutions under the Stew
arts, the Scotch Highlandes, by
the collapse Of the Jacobite cause
and the Ulster Presbyterians by the bigotry
Of the dominant Episcopalians. After the
peace OF 1888 an English emigration recon-
mcnced, followed after the Irish potato
famine by proportionately far larger ex-
odus OF Irish Roman Catholics, who up 10
that time had been but sparsely repro
sented in the States" This last sentence
is wholly wrong and misleading. There
has not since the revolution ever been 4
distinctively English emigration, but
there has been, ever since the Irish re-
bellion OF 1908 and the act OF Union con.
summated by perfdy that even Mr..
Gladstone has been unable adequately to
paint, steady flow OF Irish Catholics who
were driven and are now being driven out
Of their country by expressions rs in
famously conceived as any Of those that
forced the Prcsbyterians OF Ulster to face
the perils OF the Atlantic and found new
homes in Pennsylvania, Virginia and North
Carolina, and even in the then wilderness
Of what Is now Tennessee, about the
foothills OF the Uniaka range Of mount
aims. Desolato and oppressed, made aliens
by the vindictive and assassin-like en-.
iorcement OF an almost Draconian code in
the mother-land, the colonists were re-
lentlessly pursued in the new country
where they hoped to find peace, and wen
beset by the Indian tribes concentrated on
the borders Of civilization and armed by
the British authorities for their deliberate
massacre. All the fountains Of love and
affection were thus broken up, and wher
independence was gained really distinc
nation was born that had but little Of af
hnities save language with Great Britain
and is now more widely separated b!
the strong infusion OF German, Italian
French and Scandinavian blood thai hai
been added within the past twenty-fv
years, 80 that before the close OF this cen
fury, with the help Of Polish. Russian
and Bohemian admixtur, the Unite,
States will be as foreign 10 England ant
Englishmen as France il, except in Ian
guagc. And even that will be foreign 4
the mass Of Englishmen who are still giyer
10 dialects and patios and do not under
stand the English Of John Morley. Of Glad
stone, Huxley or Tcnnyson. We shall
preserve the venerable English Of Shakes
pcarc in all liz strength and beauty, an'
by tho aid Of common schools, It's spokeI
uniformity. We have a eapacious ma,
for immigrants, but we also have equa
powers Of assimilation.