The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-07
II not thousands. OF nihilists to seek
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II not thousands, OF nihilists to seek
safety In other lands-
SO. Republican platform In 1854. when
Lincoln was renominated for president,
said foreign immigration" had done
so much for this country h a should
be encouraged by a liberal and Just
policy"
-. On july 4. new officialoCommis-
sioner OF Immigration-was appointed
and he was to devote himself to looking
after the interests of immigrants" 1t
created the contract labor system,
providing that contracts by immigrants
to repay their passage expenses when
advanced to them hould be valid And
SIS, 900 were appropriated to carry the
act into effect
"5. On December 6, 1854, Lincoln In
his message called attention to frauds
practiced against immigrants. He said:
I regard our immigrants as one Of the
principal replenishing stream which
are appointed by Providence to repair
the ravages of internal war. and its
wastes of national strength and
health"
If you read Secretary Welles's
little book entitled Lincoln and
tressed the government had become
over the war and its dark prospects.
We are satisfied that il the south could
have sent in the fall of 1854, 10000 fresh
troops the independence to the south
would have Immediately followed be-
aus Grant and Sherman would have
been overwhelmed with defeat.
Mr.. Grady makes pointed comments
upon the action Of the republican con-
gress and President Lincoln.
Remember there was no restriction
on immigrants and the government
welcomed and helped them. The figures
given are significant:
1.-THE immigration figures Jumped
from so, 724 in 1861, and SO, 007 in 1862, to
174,524 in 1863, 1913, 1875 in 1864, and 247. 453
in 1865, the years ending June 30th; and
the number Of foreigners who assisted
in subjugating the c~onfederacy was
about 494, 900 or nearly 5 to every 6 men
in the armies of the c~onfederacy.
"Such are the irrevocable records of
the past. The anarchists were offered
free homes in the asylum of the OPP
pressed Of all nations They came
by the thousands as Mr.. McComas
said in the United States senate De-
rember 5th; and they are now in all
our cities cooperating with the nihilists
and anarchists in the capitals of Europe
in fermenting conspiracies to kill
rulers.
Among those who were brought over
in the constantly charging stream to
which the homestead law gave the first
impulse, were the parents of Czolgosz.
They came in 1866 from that country
where Freedom shrieked when Kos
clusco fell where the seeds of nihilism
have been sown n nurtered for more
than n century by Russ1a's whole sale
massacres, ass~assinations, c-onfiscations
and destruction of political, personal
and property rights"
The evidence is complete. The repub-
licans brought over the anarchists and
helped to provide for them. Mr.. Grady
refers to h policy and course of HI
corrupt, dark, dangerous, destructive
party and "a with exact truth, that
they intend to divide the people Of the
United States into antogonistic classes.
rich and poor, into millionaires and
tramps-a class of idlers never heard of
in these states till after the government
fell into the hands Of the republican
Darty.'