The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-06-09


forthcoming militia training.
"The exodus is carried out largely by
ships of the Liverpool, New York, and
Philadelphia Company, whose vessels
leave this harbor midweekly for New
York; but the number of passengers from
the cause above suggested has so consider
ably increased that supplemental steamers
have had to be placed on the line each of
the three last weeks, and instead Of the
number being six or seven hundred a
week, they carry to the amount of some
fourteen or sixteen hundred This weekly
outpour from the port of Cork, it is cal
culated, will continue during the spring
and summer at the rate of some twelve or
fifteen hundred per week.
STRONG IMPULSE.
In August, 1868, the London Times, in
speaking of the consumption of men in
America, said "We have not laid much
stress on these imports of men from Europe,
of which the North as had the advantage,
but the aid from this source cannot have
been inconsiderable Germans and Irish
have been poured into New York along
with cannon. rifles, sabers, and stores.
Emigration from theOld World has actually
received strong impulse under the attrac-
tions of the war. The Germans, trained
soldiers already, accepted war as promis-
ing business, and hope to rise in the
service, in which military education is
| rare. The Irish follow the invitations of
their kindred to land of high wages, and
are overpowered on their arrival by the
allurements of the recruiting sergeants."
The same paper, speaking of the enlist
ments in Germany for the Union army,
on March 8, 1864, said: "Enlistments of
German soldiers for the Federal service
appear to have been proceeding rapidly of
late One hundred and thirty-six Ger
mans, many of whom had seen service,
arrived at Liverpool, to embark for Bos-
ton to join the United States army. They
seem to expect rough service, but are all
anxious to receive their bounty money,
800, before leaving England, and some
refuse to embark without it.
At the same time, in the House of Com
mons, Mr.. Rosebeck said II beg to give
notice that on going into Committee of
Supply 1 will ask the following question :
as it intended by the government to re-
monstrate with the Government of the
Federal States on the employment by them
of agents in ireland for the purpose of en-
listing soldiers of her Majesty ?"
In the House of Lords, april 8, 1864,
the Marquis of Clanricarde moved for the
papers relative to the proceedings at Wash
ington upon the subject of immigration,
also for the papers respecting the enlist
ment of Irish emigrants at Portland and
Boston March, 1868, and also those respect
ing the enlistment of Canadian subjects in
the Federal army. During the debate
the Marquis Clanricarde charged the United
States Government with being a party to
the systematic recruiting of British sub
jects, and urged a vigorous remonstrance
against such proceedings and declared that
no attention to such remonstrance would
be cause for war.
"Lord Brougham seconded the motion,
and said that the Federals were inviting
poor Irishman into breach of law, and
pointed to the complaints of the Ameri-
cans when England employed Hessiaus
and Germans. Earl Russell assented to
the production of the papers, and reiterated
his defence of Lord Lyons and himself He
asserted that they had done all they could in
the way of remonstrance, and thought it
highly discreditable to the American au-
thorities at Washington that they had not
fully investigated the representations made
by Lord Lyons"
The London Shipping Gazette of Feb
ruary 10, 1865, thus alluded to the enlist
ment of recruits for the Union army in
Switzerland: Federal recruiting agents
have been very busy in Switzerland. That
disgraceful system of crimping which has
been so extensively practiced on the
Queens subjects in Great Britain and Ire
land is carried on in much the same man
ner among the Swiss. Emigration agents
hold out to the men of the poorer classes
brilliant promises of work and pay, and
the unfortunate dupes emigrate, not to work
but to become food for powder. = Vol
unteering for the Northern States, either
as workmen or soldiers, goes on to a great
extent in Switzerland, and in order to put
some check to it, the Swiss Government,
in semi-official paper, have called upon
the citizens of the republic to desist from
visiting America while the war lasts; but,
above all, to abstain from taking military
service there"
THE AMERICAN EMIGRATION COMPANY.
Notwithstanding these exposures and
warnings, recruiting in Europe continued
with great activity, and thousands of emf
grants deserted from the army and sailed
for America. To give respectable covering
to the recruiting agents, Congress, in 1864,
established the "American Emigration
Company" to encourage immigration
This company flooded Europe with its
agents, and very soon immigrants began to
pour into American ports. Through the
activity of the recruiting agents abroad,
and under the stimulus of the liberal boun-
ties, the arrival of immigrants at the port
of New York shows that there was an in
crease of 81 ,682 over 1860, 81 ,315 over
1861, S6,53S over 1862, and the arrival
OF l94,311 10 the year S63 was SO,523
more than the preceding year.
In the controversy between Mayor Gun
ther, of New York, and the general agent
of the american Emigration Company"
the Mayor, said chat 'Immigration under
ordinary circumstances is u source of wealth
and prosperity to people" but the act of
Congress establishing this company for
this great object was "a bait under fraudu-
lent pretenses to enlist foreigners" shat
the covert object of this measure is pri-
marilyto gain material for the army" As
evidence of the influence these various
agencies were exerting to secure recruits
the New York Herald in its editorial on
March 10, 1864, said: ''Nearly 100000
emigrants have arrived in this country dur
ing the past year, mostly at New York
At least 10000 have Joined the army"
During the last four months of 1864 and
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