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Carious Immigration I'iirts.My.The statistics rerent 1\ prepared t»v 11 m‘ Treasurv I depart mont showing tin* total arrival of immigrants in thi^ country an* interesting, shedding, as they do, considerable light upon tin* immigration ^ question as well as on tin- population ot tin* countrv , sax - the Detroit Free 1‘ress. chi tin so so\ nit v \ oars tin* total arrivals t,of immigrants number lfi.ti 11 ,d8S. Al-lowing for tin* nvcrage inoroaso of tin* nativr population,and the birth and death r rate among the immigrant population, as « well as the number of the latter who retained home, ii would appear that the doseendants of the people who have come here since 18*20 exceed the descendants of those already here then, and who may *In* considered ot the old American stock, t, heeausc boasting several generations ot i ancestors horn in this country. Asfaras . can he calculated, there are gli.trtMUHM) t white people of an American ancestry 1 previous to 18*20. and ;l*2,tHX»,000 dating , trout a later period, with T.lHtO.OiH) of i negroes, most ot whose families lmve ‘ been longer in this country than the ( , whites. With 4.-I.M ,710 (iermau innni-, grants arriving Imre in the last seventy years.the population ot lYutonic descent i lt;to-dav will amount to 11,000,0(H),without , including tlu* rennsylvania Dutch, who go hack to a much older period, while ,, those of Irish descent will number 8,oOO,-lt;NHi, or mvirly twice the population ot the evergreen isle. I hat one little isl-s and has twice as many of its children in America as at home, and has contributed one-eighth ot the population ot the | railed States, England and her English Colonies have about f,lt;MKUHJ0 people here * to-dav , emigrants of the descendants ot v emigrant' whohuvt come here since 18*20, u the Scandinavian kingdoms have l.HHI,-IMm, the Latin countries 1 .fSXUMHI, the f Sclav countries I.immumio, the Ereneh Canadians sihuhio.I It would seem, therefore, that the .. white population of this country is about ;* percent, of Anglo-Saxon, or rather ot ii Knglish d scent, alumt *20 j ei* cent. (»rr-i_ man, about lf» per cent. Irish, 4 per it cent. Latin, 8 per cent. Scandinavian,,f with the remaining 8 per cent, ol Sclav and other Idood. As the Knglish them-.{■ , -i Ives are by no menus ot jmre Anglo-» Satou descent, it follows that the Anglo-,£ Saxon element which we so delight to j It speak of in orations is really much I || smaller than we ini tgitie. W e are only | half Knglish even if we cling to that [v language, and scarcely a quarter ol our it. population can by the greatest stretch ol a frequently misused word be styled t(, AugiiaSnxon. ill I _ —— — —
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Cumberland Weekly Civilian
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Fri, Sep 25, 1891
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