Thoughts on Emigration, Education, &c: In a Letter Addressed to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, Prime Minister of England (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Citizen, A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0243470355 ISBN 13: 9780243470358

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Thoughts on Emigration, Education, &C: In a Letter Addressed to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, Prime Minister of England

I consider Emigration to be the safety valve of every densely peopled country, by which the surplus population is transferred to another soil, where-immense tracts of land are in possession of the inferior animals, and in many cases where the foot of man has never trod. It is a safety valve, because it carries off the non-productive population of a country who are daily consuming the produce of the land without being able to render an equivalent for the value received. It is so, because it carries off a class of people who naturally become dissatisfied with matters as they exist, and are apt to blame the Government for the poverty and destitution that surround them. It is so, because the wheels of the national machinery become clogged, inasmuch as the unemployed portion of the inhabitants are a burthen, a dead weight upon those who are actively following their daily occupation, and as the former class increase, the latter become poorer, until they, too, loose all hope of maintaining their families in comfort and respectability, and fall by de grees into a state of despondency and despair. Losing all their spirit of manly independence and self-reliance, they sink into the gulph of abject poverty and wretchedness. But Emigration, to be an advantage and a blessing in an individual, collective, and national point of view, must be conducted upon an enlightened, liberal, and rational foot ing, suitable means must be adopted to bring about suitable ends, regard must be had to the future welfare and pros perity of the emigrant, as well as to the inhabitants of the country in which he is to reside, otherwise the gravest acts of injustice may be committed on both. But can we say that the Emigration of the present day is so conducted? N 0, my Lord, it is fraught with the most glaring acts of injustice, both to the poor deluded, suffering, trodden-down emigrant himself.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0243470355
• ISBN 13: 9780243470358
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 44