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I Ki BXTRAOTS FROM inendicants, and professional beggars 3 but
hh ant . r of these I have no reliable data, and there-
f tt TION, J. CLEMENS LE ITER. | fore pass them with the single remark that
eth . Ihave never seen a native American who
iba Democrats, hear what your Alabama bro- belonged to either class. These figures are |
k rs ther, Hon. Jere Clemens, has to say about far more conclusive than any. eee
has > . could be to prove the necessity of arrestin
ie ae the American Party : the tide of immigration. Let every Ameri-
thn It is gravely urged as an objection to the | can impress them deeply on his memory.
a order of Know Nothings that it originated 42,369 foreign paupers and invalids ; 2,881
jie} in the North, and ought therefore to be} junatics, and 22,229 criminals taxing the ‘
it regarded with suspicion by the South, and | industry, and blighiting the prosperity, of a '
th §4 this reason Ihave seen advanced by such | single city. In that list of crimes is mur-
ee men as Toombs and Stephens of Georgia, der, rape, arson, robbery, perjury, and
fh og and Preston of Kentucky—gentlemen whom everything which is damning to the charac- oe,
pM I know personally, and for whose talents, | ter of the individual, and everything which 4
nae attainments and moral worth I have very | jg dangerous to society. In our section we '
* great respect, To my mind it is an evi-| see but little of the evils of immigration ;
| wh dence of the weakness of any cause when comparatively few come among us, and
Nie men of fair abilities resort to such flimsy | those are genorally of the best classes of their
baty ineans to support it. Ido not:know how countrymen, It is‘not as a State that we
hae the fact is, but I shall concede that it did | gutfer inost, but as an integral part of the \
an originate in New York, and then I shall Republic. The crime, vice, disease, desti- |
fag proceed to show that there is no spot upon tution, and beggary which flow in with i
ed! the Continent where the people have suffered every tide of immigration afflicts us but |
iP more from foreign. immigration, or where little; it is through their political action—
Hie they have more imperious reasons for | in their capacity of voters—that.the curse
|! arraying themselves against it. By refer- | extends itself tous. When thousands upon
lias ence to the annual report of the Governors thousands are carried to the polls and made
ni of the Alms House, I find: there were in to vote in favor of.any man, or any party,
iy the N.Y, Alms House during the year 1858, | for a shilling, corrupting the ballot-box, and [f.
ky 2193 inmates—of these only 535 were ‘Na- rendering liberty insecure, then we suffer—
ae tives, and 1663 Foreigners, supported at the then the law of selfepreservation gives us & ct
Tes expense of the city. And now I propose to right, and makes it a duty to interpose. ey
is} use on our side the arguinent of our oppo- | With’ such dangers thickening around us 4"
hie nents that there are only 3,000,000 Foreign- | the memorable order of Gen. Washington, aoe
i ers to 20,000,000 Natives. According to} should be upon every man’s lips— Put
* that ratio there ought to be about 7 Natives none but Americans on guard to-night.” i
one Foreigner. in the Alms House. In time of peace your public officers are i
Whereas we find more than 8. Foreigners to | your sentinels. Put none on guard whose it
one Native. No wonder thata people who | bosoms do not swell with exulting pride at .
are taxed to support such a body of pau- | the mention of Bunker Hill, Monmouth, of ‘
( pers should be the first to set about devising Saratoga, or of York Town. Put none on t
ty means to get rid of them. Let us pursue | guard whose national traditions are not 7
(i the record—the Bellevue Hospital, in the | confined to our own commonwealth. Put i
ras same city, there were 702 Americans—4194 none on guard who can dwell by the hour :
at Foreigners ; now the proportion rises to} on the eloquence of Daniel O’Connell, but I
aby nearly six toone. There were of out-door have never heard~the name of Patric :
id poor,—that is persons who had some place | Henry, Put none on guard who turn with ‘
ay to sleep, but nothing to eat and nothing to | indifference from the story of Niagara and :
wa make a fire—-967 Native Adults, and 1044 | New Orleans, to boast of Marengo, Leipsic, ;
Le children—3131 Foreign Adults, 6229 Foreign | and Waterloo. They do not love your land ‘
mj Children, born of foreign parents. This | as you do—they will not watch over it with |
* number were relieved during the year with | the same absorbing interest. Oppression, .£
‘A money. Of those relieved with fuel there not choice, has brought him here, and Pare
vl were 1243 Adult Americans, and 1801 child- though he may feel a certain amount of _ |
se ren—10,895 Adult Foreigners, and 17,857 | gratitude for the shelter he has found, he watt
ny children. But the record is not yet complete | still looks back to the green fields of his f
th —let us turn to the statistics of crime. In | childhood—he remembers every stone upon i
nn the city prisons there were during the year | the high-ways—he reads the history of his
ey 102 Americans—22,229 Foreigners, J pass | native land, and partakes in the pride cf A
hy on to an abode even more gloomy than that | its great events—in his heart of hearts he
sit of the prison cell, and call your attention feels that there is his home, and there hig
et to those whom God in his wisdom has Seen | holiest affections are garnered up. Fear,
tf fit to deprive of the light of reason. In the | necessity, common Sense, may keep him
4) lunatic Asylum there were admitted from here, but he loves not the land of the stran-
ar the year 1847 to 1853, 779 Americans—2,381 ger—cares nothing for its former glories—
om Foreigners. For the year 1853 there were | sheds no tear over its former disasters. u
tal G4 Americans, 393 Foreigners, With what reverence can the German .
Mt These tables might be made more com- | regard the name of Washington when he |
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