The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-07-03

of Scotch-Irish in PENNSYLVANIA
Virginia, and the Carolinas, of Welsh
III Pennsylvania, and of Scotch in North
Carolina Irish. Welsh, and Scotch
were to he found widely scattered in
all of the colonies. of course, but those
mentioned were their principal seats
of settlement Besides, there were the
Dutch of New York and New Jersey
and the Germans of Pennsylvania
numbering in all less than one hundred
thousand before the Revolution. There
was large French-Huguenot element
in the population, which Weise. the
French historian of the Huguenots
places as high as two hundred thou
sand The investigations of modern
historians have gone far to sustain
Weise in this. The only argument
against so large an estimate is that the
defendants of these IIuguenots appear
to have nearly vanished; but, if search
is made. we find them under such
Anglicizations of fOriginalFrench names
as Noyes, TarboN, Burnct, Gillet, Bun
ker, Mullins, Doolittle, Toogood. and
Petit: and unchagcd French names
such as Raymond, Tracy, Gilbert
Lambert, Millard, are SO common that
we do not regard them as strange OF
foreign. The conqured Acadians were
scattered through the colonies, many
being settled in Massachusetts, and
many, strangely enough, among the
PENNSYLVANIA Germans. who completely
absorbed them, Des Champs, lie Moine
and Riviere disappearing to re-emerge
as DeshOn, Lemon, and Reber.
At the close of the Revolution the
population was of the original En- nglish
stock, and French, Irish, Scotch. and
Welsh TO the Celtic element in the
English population had been added an
other Celtic element. The result was
Il homogeneous body of Americans
much more Celtic than the English.
The American was and is more quick
more nervous, more high-strung, than
the Englishman, and the reason is that
he is more largely Celtic.
The German element in the colonies
was small, and not assimilatc The
PENNSYLVANIA Germans" retain their
distictive identity even to the present
time.
There is no record of immigration
prior to 1919. From the close of the
Revolution to that date, it is estimated
that two hundred and fifty thousand
foreigners arrived. OF these, by far
the greater part were Irish and French.
Political trouble in Ireland and France
and the slave revOlts in Hayti drove
thousands of Irish and French to Amer
lea
The foreigners who arrived here eb-
fore 1920 assimilated with the NATIVE
population, and their descendants are
undistinguishable from the descendants
of earlier arrivals. Up to 1920 immigra-
tion was principally Celtic. The year
1920 saw the small beginnings of the
mighty German immigration. For
many years. however. the French i'm
migration exceeded it, and the Irish
immigration vastly outnumbcrcd it.
So. ifany part Of the immigration
prior to 1910 became asSimilated. it
was still almost entirely Celtic.
Since lS4s, however, the Tcutonic
immigration has exceeded the Celtic,
of late years far exceeded it; and the
Teutonic balance in the new English
nation that is being developed on this
continent has been largely restored.
The German immigration has been prin-
cipally low German, precisely the Ger
manic element that appears in the Eng
liSh nation, the Slavonizcd high Ger
mans of western Germany sending no
immigrants to Britain in Saxon times
and very few to America in modern
times. Since the civil war there has
been a large Scandinavian immigra-
ton, and the Dutch immigration has
always been considerable. Between
1920 and 1890 there arrived in the
United States one million six hundred
thousand English, three hundred and
sixteen thousand Scotch. one hundred
and eleven thousand Welsh, three mil
lion two hundred and torty-onc thou
sand Irish, and eight hundred and
twenty thousand from Great Britain
not specified. From France came three
hundred and fifteen thousand. from
Belgium ninety thousand. from Austria
(cxcluding Hungary three hundred
and fourteen thousand. from Denmark
one hundred and forty-lour thousand
from Norway and Sweden nine hun
Ircd and forty thousand. from Holland
nincty-cight thousand. from Spain and
Portugal thirty seven thousand. from
Hungary one hundred and torty-ont
thousand. from Switzerland one hun
lrcd and Nty-iivr thousand, from Rus,
sin and Poland three hundred and
twcntv-threc Thousand, from Italy three
hundred and eighty-two thousand, from
Canada one million five hundred and
thirteen thousand, and from Germany
four million four hundred and sixteen