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Immigration

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
April
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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'Letters have beenceived by the stéamer, announcmg an ovorwhehning cinigvalion from France aml Germany. In Alsace, entire villages are breaking up, preparatory to cmbarking for Araerica, In Holland, too, a similar disposition exists, and the immense number ol" iJutch who will come out, will exceed anything ever known. In llcsse Darmstadt, parlies are forming for emigration ; in one town a roll of -100 was signed in a week. To these we must add the immigration from Ireland, Scotland, and England. - Some of our contemporaries estímate 150,000 as the number to como within the next six months ; 300,000 is more ikc the true number, and the best infonned thiiik the nggregate will far exceed even this amount. The great desiderátum is, what are wc to do with them ï what arrangements ïavc we made to aid these hordes of' peoile to pass into the interior ? one thing is certain, thore is no longer room for them in thecily. A large number of these people are ndustrious, and they may do well : butone fourth aro mechanics and day laborers. Perhaps in tliis number are 3000 servanls who have been driven oO'by tlie faminc. We see by the publication in tho English papers, tliat iin immense nu;nber of servants have been discharg. edin consequence of the dearncss of provisions. One letter f rom Liverpool, whicli has been shown us, says : - " We havo lliousnnds of these poor creatures here naked. Gorl onlv knows what is td bccome of them. We do all we can, ana cHeerïÜtty, but tlie number iucroases so last, tliat 1(bar it is impossible to proviJo Cor theiñ." Iftho Logislaturo oí this Stato wasto íippropviate $'10,000 to uic] tho cily in .endiog thesc peoplc to tho West, ií

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Signal of Liberty
Old News