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(. F. T.
from the N. Y. Tribune.
"I am obliged," Raid Mndntne Mantilini,
"eincfl our late ruinfortunen, to pay Misa Knag
a groat deal of inonny for having her name in
the buflincHs;" and this olmervation, intended
to noften the hard heart of Mr. llalph
Niuklfhy, has often come into our mind as we
hare perused the exquisite contributions of
Mr. George Francis Train to the World, lint
now that we are exactly informed how muoh
Mr. Train did, and how little he got for doing
it, we find the commiseration which we felt
for the World suddenly transferred to the
Recount of Mr. George Francis Train. We
knew that Mr. Train'B Irish letters and des
patches were of great value, but we had no
idea that there were so many of thoni a fact
which would have been sovorely impressed
upon our wearied mind if we had felt it a
doty to read them, and had done that duty
without the least regard for probable conse
quences, cerebral or stomachic lleally, we
have not done the hero of the Irish bastile
full justice. He is not merely brilliant, but
prolific. lie actually furnished 102 columns
- of letters and speeches and reports, which he
expected to get $25 per column for writing,
but didn't. He actually paid out of his
own pocket the sum of $il.r0 for foreign
postage and cable despatches. His bill
' against the World, therefore, amounts to $2700
less the amount of an order which he gave for
$r.O to S. J. Meany "to furnish him with
pocket money on landing from the British
Bastile." Mr. Train publishes the full
account, and Mr. Train is a man of comiuer
cial accuracy. The balance due to him he has
requested the proprietor of the World to pay
to Miss Susan B. Anthony, the whole sum
being magnanimously and chivalrously de
Toted "to the emancipation of woman." We
fear that Mr. Train has been altogether too
.Confiding. At any rate, we do not see how the
inonep is to do the female cause any good
until the World pays it over; and whenever
Miss Anthony has received the cash, we hope
that she will at once communicate to us
the encouraging fact, that we may also reveal
the pleasing circumstance to an astonished
community. Such great events should
have a metropolitan promulgation. Mean
while the full extent of the World'
obligation to Mr. Train has not
been fully stated. He solemnly declares that
. the ungrateful newspaper obtained 10,000
tubscribers "on account of his connec- new
tion with it;" but we fear that his enthusiasm
has led him into an error. If the World
should rejoin that it has lost 10,000 subscri
bers by reason of its publication of Mr.
Train's letters and despatches, and should
make a strong affidavit to that effect, we con
fess that we should be puzzled which to be
lieve Mr. Train or the World and perhaps
we might feel obliged, in strict equity, to
compromise the mutter by belie vingneither Mr.
Train (who has an imagination of his own) or
the World, to which journ 1 the loss of 10,000
ubscribers, or the halt ul that number,
might prove mortal. The' painful fact is that
Miss Anthony hasn't a very pleasant prospect
of getting the money, which thus far is
merely one of G. F. T.'b brilliant financial
abstractions. We wish that we were as sure
of receiving as the JCevolution is of not
oeiving that net and convenient sum.
re-
Mr. Train, being excited by his injuries at
the hands of the World, has sent us a very
long letter, with tho request that we will find
a place for it in our columns; and should we
decline to print it,' Mr. Train asks us to send
it back to his Private Secretary at some hotel
out West; but really, after his dreadful ex
perience with the World, in respect of post
age, we think that he should be more careful
either of our stamps or his own. The main
Tacts in Mr. Train's letter aro: 1st. That he
was at the Dunlap House, Jacksonville, 111.,
when he wrote it. 2d. That he used a lead
pencil in writing it, which is nearly fatal to
copy in this office, ad. That he has "150
engagements ahead." 4th. That "he has
travelled 2!i8 miles in 2 i8 hours." f.th. That
the telegraph, while it reports everything
else about him, neglects to mention his "edu
cation, morality, and religion," and "sneers
at a man who practices what he preaches."
Does Mr. George Francis practice what
he preaches? If bo, he must
go through some extraordinary antics,
for a nobler rhetorical gymnast does
not add to the noise of this most noisy world.
We have never been able to imagine him
upon the platform without a weulth of gesture,
without the most spasmodic action of the
arms, without convulsive movements of the
legs, without disheveled locks, without fire
gleaming from his eyes, without short but
rapid pedestrian excursions up and down the
stage, and without a vocal energy completely
Boanergesian. Sometimes we have fancied
Mr. Train seventeen feet high, and with the
front of Jove himself. He roars. He
lightens. He lots off thunderbolts. He sug
gests. Stromboli, Vesuvius, Cotopaxi. He is
all that is loud, and he is all that is igneous.
His tei 'y pianissimo is an impressive rumble,
as if a revolution were going on in his stomach.
Never tell us ! It cannot be that "he practices
what he preaches" at least, not in public,
though he may have frightened the ladies of
the Revolution dreadfully in private life.
Mr. Train takes pains to inform us that
"full houses meet him everywhere in his
character of a lunatio and a mountebank," as
well as of "a fool" and "a humbug." The
other day he addressed tho Chicago Chamber
of Commerce "for an hour and a half," and
delighted everybody. When he was in the
land of the Mormons he was not so fortunate.
Amelia, the favorite wife of Brigham Younc.
did not admire him. Neither does Miss Susan
B. Anthony. It will always be to us a wonder
that a man of such uncommon genius and of
an imagination so fertile, of such remarkable
eloquence, and of a person so attractive,
should be bo little a favorite with the ladies.
Perhaps it is because he roars too loudly,
Our earnest advice to him is to mitigate hu
thunder.
"You seem to be pleased," writes Mr. Train
to us. "at the criticisms of the Western press
concerning himself. Pleasod ! pray what put
it into Mr. Train's head that we were pleased?
On the contrary, we were pained, aud that,
too. most profoundly. We are Borry for all
the misfortunes of our friend George Francis,
The following epithets bestowed upon him
filled us with recret: "Addle-pated swindle
baa: Old Windy; Gas-pipe;" and here, without
the least regard for our feelings, he sends n?
extracts from other newspapers, in which ha
is called "a raving, tearing lunatic; monkey
hand-organ; comedian; two-headed snake
negro minstrel; Chinese giant; aud (O
Heavens!) Jackass." And this title is be
stowed upon a man who writes to us that he
not only possesses "I'hysioal Strength" but
"Moral Power" and "Intellectual Supe
riority." The Physical Strength might be
proper enough for a Jackass, but the Intellec
tual Superiority is Bomothing with whib- that I
animal hBS not heretofore been credited. We
should have beon more indignant at tins ansi
nine appellation if Mr. Train had not allowed
himself to have been diddled out of $2ir) by
the World. As it is, we fear that mankind
will think his ears just an in oh or so longer
than they should be.
CONGIIESS AND THE SUPREME COURT.
From the K. T. World.
The usurpations of Congress have for a
long time attracted the attention of thought
ful mop, who have any regard for the Consti
tution. One after another, within the past
five or six years, the constitutional functions
of the executive and judicial departments
have been absorbed by the legislative branch:
and now there comes a bill, reported by Sena
tor Trumbull, the purpose of which is to de
stroy the power of the Supremo Court to
afford redress to any person who may have
been injured in his personal rights by any
acts done under the Reconstruction laws by
those who were charged with their execution.
The fundamental idea that lies at the basis of
this bill is that there is a power in our Gov
ernment namely, the military power that is
independent of all control; that, whenever
Congress sees fit to put that power into exer
cise, Congress can make it supreme over all
the personal rights guaranteed by the Consti
tution, and can annul every particle of judi
cial authority to take cognizance, in any civil
or criminal proceeding, of the question whether
the constitutional rights of the citizen have
been invaded. The people of the United States,
or that portion of them who may look to us
for defense of constitutional principles, shall
have a dispassionate but truthful and search
ing analysis of this bill; and it ehall not be
our fault if they do not perceive that it in
volves exactly what we have attributed to it.
There is a certain class of lawyers and pub
lic men in the radical party who, ever since
the late war began, have professed tho doc
trine that the "war power'' enables Congress
to subject civil rights to military jurisdiction
at its pleasure. It is upon this doctrine that
the reconstruction acts are founded. The
best and the conclusive proof of this is that
the present Attorney-General who is a repre
sentative of the class to which we have
alluded has officially rested the justification
of those acts upon the theory that the war
was not ended when either the first of them
or any of its supplements were passed, and that
the power to annul, or suspend, or disregard
the constitutional rights of individuals
is the var poicer. Upon this theory Mr.
Hoar undertook to justify trials by military
commission of citizens not belonging to the
army or navy for offeuses which, if commit
ted, were oll'enses against the civil laws of
the land, and not against any laws of war or
military power. Nothing can be clearer,
therefore, than the fact to which we have ad
vertedthat there exists among the radical
politicians and lawyers of our time a doctrine
that within our Constitution there lies a
power by which Congress can at any time
annul the practical operation of all those con
stitutional provisions which secure trial by
jury; the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus,
and the right to be protected by "due process
of law" in life, liberty, and property. This
doctrine has boen acted upon, more or less,
ever since the war began. It lies at the root
of tho whole scheme by which the Southern
States have been governed since all hostilities
and every species of resistance to Federal
authority ceased, not only in respect to the
corporate and political rights of those States
as public bodies, but in respect to the civil
rights of their individual inhabitants.
Mr. Trumbull's new bill falsely denomi
nated "a bill to define the jurisdiction of tho
Supreme Court in certain cases," whereas iu
fact it is a bill to destroy the constitutional
function of tho judicial power in certain
cases is the "bright consummate flower" of
the military doctrine. The first section,
which is a harmless declaration of a principle
that nobody disputes least of all do the
judges of the Supreme Court dispute it that
tho judicial power embraces no jurisdiction
over political questions, which belong exclu
sively to the political department of the Govern
ment. The Supreme Court has itself so often
asserted and acted upon this principle, from
the earliest times down to the present day,
that it is quite superfluous for Congress to
undertake to give it the force of
law by uongressionai enactment, it is a
truism in our constitutional system, to the
adornment of which Congress cannot "add
one hair, white or black," or "one cubit" to
the strength and dignity of its "stature
But then the second section of Mr. Trum
bull's bill, starting from this unquestionable
premise, proceeds to invade the constitutional
power of the court to determine when a ques
tion is political and when it is judicial, and to
shut up that question within the breast of
Congress itself, thereby precluding the citizen
from all protection at the hands of the judi
cial power, in cases where the deprivation of
his civil rights gives rise to the inquiry
whether the acts done to mm were an exer
cise of power that Congress could oonstitu
tionally wield. This, as we have said, is not
to define the jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court, but it is to override that jurisdiction
as it is defined by the Constitution. We shall
make this perfectly plain before we have done
wun me uiu.
THE RELEASE OF THE GUNBOATS.
T'om the N. Y. Timet.
Even those who sympathize most ardently
with the insurgents in Cuba will admit, if
they take the trouble to look carefully into
all tho facts, that the Government has placed
Itself in a very strong position by its course
in reference to the Spanish gunboats. A
serious danger has boen avoided. Had we
followed the example of other nations, we
should have allowed the popular sympathy
for Cuba to override principles of law and
justice. The good wishes of the American
people were naturally with the leaders of a
party which desired to get rid of a bad gov
ernment and construct another on the model
of this Republic A sentiment of this kind
cannot be ontrolled by cabinets, but it is the
duty of every honest government to restrain
it from leading a nation into a breach of
faith. It is in that respect, as we have
always alleged, that the Government of
England failed, and the facts too thoroughly
sustain our accusation. Lord Palmerston and
his colleagues stood by idly while hostile
cruisers were fitted out against us. We
demand reparation, aud while we are de
manding it, there are those who would force
us into committing similar obnoxious acts
ourselves. They first of all insisted that we
ought to send relief to the Cuban insur
gents, and failing that, they called upon the
Government to seize the gunboats built here
by Spain, for the express purpose of weak
ening that power and of giving succor to her
insurrectionary subjects.
Had the Presidont yielded to this pressure,
he would have boen bittorly reproached here
after by the very men who have tried to in
fluence bis judgment in favor of interven
tion. They, like everybody else, Would have
Seen that we hud coiunlotelv iVrst roved nil
the effect of our remoustraures with Eng
land.
lodged
We nhould have practically acknow
that our case was fabricated to suit
the purposes of the honr. Fortunately we
are in no such position to-day. We have acted
with perfect impartiality towards all parties.
Upon a . complaint of the Peruvian Minister,
the gunboats were detained until the circum
stances in connection with them could be
judicially inquired into. It has now been
found that the complaint on the part of Peru!
cannot be sustained, and Judge Blatchford
has ordered the immediate release of the
boats.
We do not call tho attention of our foreign
contemporaries to this incident as an exam
ple of generosity on our part, or ad anything
to boast loudly about. We have simply been
guided by a strict regard for justice but in
so doing we have made a precedent very dif.
ferent from that which was Bet up by Eng
land in the Alabama case. If England should
say to us now, "You have done nothing to be
particularly proud of," we Bhould rejoin,
"Perhaps not but it is much to be desired
that you had exhibited a little more of our
spirit between IW1 and lH(i4. We have
only administered the laws faithfully
but in doing that we ' deviated as
widely as possible from your example."
Although our course now cannot undo
the mischief done to us by pirate cruisers, it
will have its effect in future history. We have
proved that, if we will not allow other nations
to aggrieve us, we, on our part, will do no
wrong to them. Some hundreds of vessels,
and a vast amount of property, would have
been saved from wanton destruction, if Lord
Palmerston and Lord Russell had acted as
President Grant and Secretary Fish have just
done. We have at least strengthened our
claims for indemnification. If these gunboats
should be used against Cuba, it would be a
source of much regret to us. But there was
only one course which we could pursue with
out dishonor, nnd we have taken it, leaving
every secondary consideration out of sight.
ELECTION REPEATERS WnAT IS THE
REMEDY ?
From the K. Y. Herald.
The extent to whioh "repeating" was car
ried on in tho late charter election is bearing
its fruit in a quarter hitherto considered inac
cessible to influences of this sort. Not only
was repeating resorted to, but the "stuffing
and "counting out" processes were largely in
dulged in, to the serious detriment, not of
Republican adversaries, but of erst Demo
cratic friends aud colaborers in the old gamo.
This in fact makes what would be under other
circumstances a trifling matter and of little
consideration one of great consequence. It
was a game of Democratic bluff; aud tho idea
of being bluffed aud sold, when each party
thought they had the gamo in their own
hands, was too bad. There was evidently a
screw loose somewhere. Either the one side
had miscalculated its opponent's rosonrces, or
had not given it credit for being prepared to
go in for repeaters to the extent of securing a
victory. The fact is that political strategy
was never more deftly or successfully prac
tised than as between the rival candidates of
the same organization. Shoeing a troop of
horse with felt, after King Lear s idea, was a
blundering strategy compared with that pur
sued in some oi tne warns on Tuesday last
by the rival Democratic opponents.
In ono district, the most interesting of all
the field of conflict, the repeaters held in
reserve for one candidate were by a ruse
brought up to the polls and rocorded their
voteB tor their employer s opponent. Here
was the biter bitten with a vengeance, and
bitter feud ia consequence.
In the up-town districts the confidence game
was very successfully practised. In one of tho
districts the defeated candidate asks that his
opponent will be magnanimous enough to in-
i or iu mm oi the number of votes cast lor him
that were counted in the interest of his oppo
nent, pledging himself to take no action in
the matter. In another (a new district) the
defeated candidate for police justice protests
against the action of the inspectors and can
vassers, confident that not only has he suf
fered a defeat through fraud, but that his
supporters, the majority of the voters of the
district, have been gTossly cheated of their
right of puffrage.
And so it is throughout all the districts and
wards of the city. Now, what is the remedy
tor this most outrageous state ot affairs t In
what way can the purity of the ballot-box be
restored, and the electors of the city assured
that their votes are honestly counted and ap
propriately recorded for the candidates of
their choice ? Only through legislation, not
confined merely to measures passed at Albany,
but to legislation in Congress a broad and
comprehensive scheme of legislation, em
bracing the nat'onal points in the question,
and the local ones with regard to the pohti
cal machinery in the city and State.
Ihis system of fraudulent voting is in
creasing in our midst. The result, as seen in
the late election, is pregnant with warning
to the dominant party itself and to its parti
sans, and the remedy, to be effectual, must
strike at the very root of the evil. Legisla
tion is the hrst thing necessary, and the citi.
zens, if they value the franchise the right
aud prerogative of freemen will see to it
that when their representatives meet at
Albany this question will be taken up and
effectually disposed of.
TRIUMPH OF SPANISH TYRANNY ON
AMERICAN SOIL.
Vwi the N. Y. Sun.
Tho triumph of Spanish influence in the
administration, nominally of General Grant,
but really ot Hamilton i ish, is consummated.
The thirty Spanish gunboats built here and
at Mystic to operate against Cuba, but osten
tatiously seized by the Government four
months ago and kept under guard ever since,
were reloased on Friday by orders from Wash
ington. Tho Hon. Hamilton Fish has directed
that they ehall be surrendered to the Spanish
agents, and they will now be free to proceed
on their work against the patriots of Cuba.
If the Republican cause there is put down,
and slavery and the African slave trade finally
re-established, the credit of it will be due
to the Secretary of State, whose advice con
trols General Grant, and to Sidney Webster,
Hired lawyer oi the bpamsh Uovernment
who influences his father-in-law. Secretary
i ish.
The neutrality law. under which the admin
istration pretends to act, was finally enacted
in ltia. The Spanish colonies of South Ame
nctt were in revolt, and the United States
sympathized with them. It was an earnest
and not a hypocritical evmpathv. The law
was framed to embody and proclaim this feel
ing, and to secure to all American colonies
struggling for independence and self-gov
erument all the rights of belligerents
through the operation of our courts.
whether the President had recognized tha
fact of their revolt and their warfare or
not. It was intended to cover iust such
cases as the present case of Cuba; and ac
cordmgly, when a Venezuelan cruiser cap
tured a (Spanish vessel and brought her into
New Orleans, she was held to be a lawful
prize, thorji.h the President hud not in auy
wy recognised the insurgent colony of Vcne-
:nolf. and thouch the fact that uin totil of
Venezuela Were warrinrr
country was known only by public notoriety,'
rum was not proveu oy any ordinary leaal evi
dence But that was in a time when James!
Monroo was President and John Quinoy
Adiuns was tiecrotarv of Kt Thn thn Pr-
ideut knew his duticH. find1 flirt Mnninfiirv liod
not ft Spanish lawver with fnrtv y
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Actio idoo iur uia n(m-iiiiaw. : v
But what Can thn raima i;w hnnii
from this Spanish Aduiini.t rut l rY
othincr! General Grant. on
honest though apparently not intelligent wish
to help the Cubans; but John A. Rawlins has
been taken away, and Hamilton Fish is the
I . 1 .
imuer-iu-iaw oi tne chier manager of Spanish
interests in this country; and the President
has fallen into tho present anti-American and
dishonorable course of action. But the senti
ment of the American people can yet accom
plish much by earnest manifestations. If the
mreu agent oi Spanish dospotism and slave
trading still influences thn T'f;a ih
his father-in-law, the people can influence
Congress. It IS not vet ton lata in cava Piiha
and save our country from the shame of being
overruled by Spanish tyrants. Let the popu
lar sympathy with the republicans of Cuba,
luniijrm ui uueny, contending for the rights
of man, be declared so ardently that the true
men in Congress will Iia inonirci t tt.it v
boldness and decision; and so loudly that the
servant of Spain in the State Department will
wBiurueu anu me aootness of the White
House made to hearken and obey!
GERMAN EMIGRANTS.
t'rmn the London Saturday Review.
It appears from tho last returns that the
German emigrants landing in New York ex-
coed in number the total amount of both
English and Irish emigrants landing there.
There are in round numbers 130,000 Germans
who land at New Y'ork in a year, while there
are about CO.OOO English, and as many Irish.
The United Stales are thus receiving within
their pale an accession of newcomers of
whom only one in four belongs to the old
race which is still the governing race in
America, and from which the law, the reli
gion, and the Constitution of the Union are
mainly derived. This exodus of Germans
must have a most important effect one day
both on the country they go to and on the
country they leave. And the emigration of
Germans to Amerioa is only one part of
a great whole. Everywhere throughout the
globe Germans are pushing their way. It is
said that the North-German Confederation is
in treaty with Holland for the purchase of
one oi the lianda Islands, and the reason
given is that so much of the coasting trade in
the Eastern seas of Asia has fullen into the
hnnds of Germans that it. becomes necessary
thut some local centre should be created for
the protection of their interest's. In every
part of South America Germans are creeping
into business, and competing successfully
with their older rivals. They are not ambi
tious or pretentious, and it is because they
are content to begin in n humble way that
they succeed. They will live on much less
than Englishmen. They are content to do a
huckstering sort of business. They seldom
offend the natives, and keep clear of local
politics. They are a species of Christian
Jews, plodding on without attracting atten
tion till they grow rich. They are
very patient, very industrious,
and devote themselves entirely to busi
ness. mey nave no grand dreams or
prospects whatever. They do not want to
found great German colonies, or to build up
an empire on which the sun shall not set.
They prefer to leave to others the trouble of
conquering and ruling. They neither aspire
to make nor to unmake constitutions; they
keep themselves beneuth the notice of revolu
tionary chiefs, and are entirely indifferent as
to who the President of the day may be. All
they ask is to be allowed to lead their own
quiet family life, to have their little enthusi
asms and sentimentalities, to drink a mode,
rate amount of beer, and to make money,
This vast irruption of orderly, industrious,
unaspiring, out in no way contemptible,
people must add a strange but valuable ele
nient to the countries into which they pour.
There are no emigrants parallel to them.
i rencumen do not emigrate at all, or are per
icciiy wreicneu n tney ao. nussians over
spread Hew territories, but do not emi
grate. A few stragglers go off from the
Latin and Scandinavian nations, but all emi
grants that set out in numbers sufficient t
produce great results are Germans, English,
or insn. ine English go out as a conquer
ing, enterprising race, to seize on tho earth
and hold it; the Irish go out partly to share
in the spoils of the English, partly to kick up
a row ana promote the cause of general dis
turbunce. But the Germans go out because
they like going, and because they can make
emigration profitable and pleasant, if other
people will take the trouble of empire and of
getting up publio excitement on their hands,
And yet, wherever they go, they have a cer
tain weight and influence. - They hang to
gether, and this gives them importance; they
are friendly, quiet, thriving people; they
commit few crimes, and they provoke few
enemies. The real Yankee nates tho Irish
man very often, owning that he is useful, but
getting weary of his rowdy, noisy, anarchical
ways; but he never hates the German. He
laughs at him, and thinks him of a lower type
than himself, but he has no bitterness against
him. The Breitmann Ballads show that the
Germans seem odd. and perhaps ridiculous.
to many Americans, but still they breathe a
kindly spirit towards the consumers of lager
iieer
So great is the power of assimilation which
the l nion possesses, with its vast area, its un
occupied lands, its free institutions, and the
tenacity which the governing race exhibits in
clinging to its old political ideas, that neither
the Irish element nor the German element has
as yet shown itself in a separate form, acting
in a distinct manner, and producing a distinct
vote. We hear of politicians doing and saying
this or that to catch the Irish vote or tno uer
man vote, but neither Irish nor Germans
affect the policy of the States in any very de
cisive way. Still these elements are becoming
rapidly so consideiabl.i thut Americans may
retlect with plasnre that they are antagonis
tic, and that, if the present proportion of
emigrants is preseived, the Oerman must bo
fore long preponderate. Of all non-English
races the German is nearest to the English,
most in harmony with it, and most easily
guided by it. A great Gorman coimy ana de.
pendency might fail, for the Germans, from
their history and their position on the con
tinent, have no notion ef government except
through soldiers and otheials. uui auey
are , excessively
turn of mind
tutious. While
always leaning
tractable, and nave.
which suits free insti-
the Irish element was
towards the South
curing the war,
the German element was
firmly Republican, and strongly upheld the
I'nion. The Germans may bo looked on as
the subordinate allies of the English raoe,
numorous, conservative, and prosperous. In
the foreign, politics of th Union they are
htrongly for peace, and tlu-.y have the merit of
feiliug no enmity against England. They
may be trusted to do all they can to repress
the inconvenient aotivity of Fenians, and to
avoid a war for war's sake. They are also
valuable to the United States ih another way.
They are almost to a man idealists and f rionds
of free thought. They resist the pressure of
American sects, and they contend against the
weary mediocrity and intellectual poverty oi
republican societies. A population that is
very steady and industrious and unambitious,
and which yet talks much nonsense, and uses
bigger words and a highor philosophical lan
guage than it understands, which carries a
sort of babyish poetry into family life, and
which, Thilistine in its way of living, is by
no means Philistine in its conception of
the relative value'of the different parts of hu
man life, may be easily understood to contri
bute something to American society that is
greatly needed. Germans are always ready
for eduoation, for music, for art, for talk
about music and art, and, gonerally speaking,
for all that the natural heart of the unre
claimed Englishman detests. The best part
of Manchester society consists of tho Gorman
families settlod there, and the Union is a sort
of magnified and glorified Manchester. Ihe
tyranny of religious cliques, again, is emi
nently distasteful to Germans, while, unfortu
nately, it is only by constant efforts that it is
partially repressed in lngiana. is migui
easily grow rampant in the States, but the
Germans will do their best to prevent it. Per
haps, for their own Bake, it might be wished
that Uerman emigrants had more aennite
views of religion, but at any rate, whethor
they are nominally Protestant or Catholic,
they all seem to sot themselves most rosolutely
against every kind of religious interference.
Thus in every way the Union gains by receiv
ing them, and may congratulate itself that
they come in twico as great a quantity as emi
grants from ano other nation. At any rate, if
they are not all that could be desired when
they land, they aro capable of being assimi
lated or improved to a remarkable degree.
Lord Carnarvon, wo bellove, lately stated
that it was the subdivision of the land that
drove Germans to emigrate. Whether this
cause operates largely, or whether it operates
at all, we have no moans of knowing; but
poverty, from one cause or other, is of course
the main reason why people emigrate ironi
every country. In Ireland the mass of the
emigrants have not been holders of the soil
at all, but laborers, and it is probable that
the same may to a great extent be true of
Germany. But other causes have also helped
to swell tho tide of emigration, of which foar
and hatred of the conscription has been per
haps the most active. The omigrants have
longed to live in a country where their time
was not wasted, their business suspended,
and their homes invaded by the drill ser
geant. Tho United States have also afforded
a refuge to thousands of Germans whoso
political views were entirely opposed to
those of the Governments under which
thev were born. It has lately been re
marked by a French writer that the history
of France has greatly differed from that
of England, owing to the fact that, England
being a colonizing country, her violent re
publicans have gone off and loft England
comparatively conservative; while France,
not being a colonizing country, has rotained
her violent republicans continually in her
bosom. There can be little doubt that this
is true, and that the American colonies acted
as a safety valve while the modern Constitu
tion of England was in the process of forma
tion, and that if Frenchmen had been in the
habit of going abroad, there would not be
so many irreconoilables at Paris. Germany
has also, we may be sure, got rid of many
troubled and troublesome spirits in the same
way. Their yearnings for republicanism
have been gratified at the safe distance of
three thousand miles, and their own country
has at least been the quieter for their ab
sence. An old society, that is at the same
time a colonizing or emigrating society,
must be a much more tranquil and more con
tented society than one in which every one stays
where he was born. Ireland, in point of de
cency and good order, is not much to boast
of at present; but its state would have been
ten times as bad if all the Fenians had stayed
at home, and if the pressure of population on
subsistence had not been mitigated by a large
outgoing of emigrants. As a mere matter of
theory, we should have thought that Lord
Carnarvon, if right in his facts, was wrong
in his deductions, and that if the Germans
are driven to emigrate by subdivision,
this may show not that subdivision is
always bad, but that the evils of subdivision
may be averted if the superabundant popula
tion emigrates. However this may be, tho
tendency of emigration is to make the mother
country conservative, and Germany has natu
rally felt the influence of this source of tran
quillity. Emigration also tends to make Ger
many conservative, in the sense that it in
duces the nation to seek a force and a con
centration of its strength which will com
mand universal respect. . Germans are not at
all inclined to arrogate to themselves the
rights of pre-eminent citizenship which
Lord Palmerston so fervently be
lieved belonged in the nature of
things to Englishmen; but they are quite
sensible of the enormous advantages which
dwellers in foreign lands derive from the fact
that the eountry ot their birth is gen orally
respected and feared. That there should be
such a body as the North-German Confedera
tion to buy one of the Banda Islands is a re
sult of Sadowa which must be precious to the
German patriot. But the fruits of Sadowa
can only be reaped if the dissolving forces
constantly at work in Germany are kept firmly
in check. The primary effects of emigration
on a country like Germany ore, therefore,
conservative because emigration enforces the
wisdom and necessity of consolidating national
strength, as well as because it removes a dis
turbing and dangerous element of the popula
tion, and lessens poverty and distress. But
probably in time it may act the other way, as
it has acted in the case of England. Emigra
tion in the seventeenth century made Eng
land conservative in the eighteenth, and
England, as much for 'the preservation of
her colonies as for anything else, fought her
way to the position of a first-rate power. But
after this period of tranquil growth and ac
tive consolidation was passed, England began
to feel an impetus towards political change
from the transatlantic territories whither she
had sent her emigrants Some day or other,
in the same way, the millions of German
Republicans in the United States will proba
bly affect the homo politics of Germany.
Whether they will do this beneficially or not,
it is useless to speculate now, but for the
present the stream of emigration from Ger
many to America seems clearly advantageous
to both countries.
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