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LeiAerqf Mr . * T . Q . Adatm < m Emigirutkm t # th& Umted & 4 &e $ of Bbiie follaw ^ g % m * from Mr , Adams , Secretaryp £ § ta $ e tp the American Govemm ^ ut , late ambassador to ^^ Eutia ^ ji fi ^ es » ed Jtp M . Maurice deJmtgbf ^^ ,-l fceeii . imb-: li ^ li ^ d ia the German , jaad copied into the English newspapers : and the name aiid character of $ ie writer , the good sen 3 ^ and liberal spirit which pervade the document , aiid the importance of the auhject at the present moment , when so many persons are forced by the vices of the old governments pf Europe to look towards the United States for an asylum , induce us to give it > ail tjhe publicity and permanence which our pages can promise . Ed . ]
** Washington , Ji $ ne 14 , 1819 . ** 4 § ir , ~ 1 have had the honour of receiving your letter of the 22 d of April with the enclosure of the JJaron de CUgern , your relative , and a copy of your printed report : I hope , and indeed entertain no doubt , that the latter may be
of great utility to such of your countryrafeh ais way "have formed erroneous ideas vtitih regard 1 *> emigration from Europe to this wunfcry . It has been clearly « hewa to yon , that you have accurately seized the idea in your repent , that the Government of the United States has
never taken any steps to invite or encourage emigrants tp come from any part of Europe to America . It has never Jield out any inducements to draw to this country the subjects of a foreign state . Motives of humanity have sometimes determined it to offfer certain facilities to
some emigrants vfche TOay Itave arrived here with tfcte intention of e>dfehing themselves hare , and who had need of particular assistance for executing ithehintention . Neither the Gommrueut of thfi ( Uiiion , nor the djdjferoia ; Stattw ihsit or
wmvoqgfadeejf ^ d ^ sdfiun tbe ^ wr ^ aee of ^ tre » £ < & . and jpvospeaity wJii ^ h the uatiph nj i ^ ht ; receive from a ; xaa « 9 of tow iuhamtautS ^ iieaKhfiU , lahoripi ^ wid teymm {^ n ^ r \ t ^ mv more iri ^ wut teat Which this
to fl ^ g a ^ Vantaie ^ country has derived , artd is irtffl deriVm ^ from the concourse of adopted children contfng from Qermany ;^ "Hb «^ tiicre is one printclple on jwhich . all 4 he iustitntioa& ^ of . this R ^ publicare ^ founded , twtfL which i 3 , a pertlpu tp
maiieat ohjectipu t < o flxantia > r fkroors to m ^ tteat objec m ^ mg / avoore tp ^ Va | w w ' w »?) » ^ mmmm ^ -fmfJ ?! $ ^' &p * mto « fwto . & sovereignB of Europe grant to oertain classes of individuals certain privileges ,
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which have * ^ omc abject « pf , | K 4 k ^ cal u ^» lity ; but it is the general opinjou here that pwileges ^ ant ^ a ^ ct 6 W class of people are necessarily an injury to some other . ** Emigrants from Germany , or from aay odier eouafery , have % iot < m arriymg here to ect from
any mvour « iq > the Go ^ vermnents ; but mease theydhodld de * ire to became citizens of . the State , they naay flatter themselves witfe joying the same rights as the natives of the couatry If they possess property > they Hiay reckon Upon finding the means of increasing ft witli moderatiou , hut with certainty ; if they are poor , hut laborious , honest , and know how to be satisfied with a little they will succeed in gaining enou ^ i to support themselves and their
familiesthey vrfll pase an independent but a laborious and painful IHe , and if they e »» Dot accommodate themselves to the moral , political , and physical state aof ttds country , the AtlarHk Ocean will always be open to th ^ ni tt > return to ^ heir native
countries . ? hey must b ^ nd their characters to necessity , or they will assuredly faU as Amedc ^ n « in all their schemes of fortune ; they must throw off , as it were , their European Skin , never more to resume ft ; they must direct their thoughts
rather forwaprds towards their posterity , than behind them to their ancestors ; they must pensuade themselves that , whatever may be their ovm sentiments , those of their children will assuredly ap proach more i : o the habits * of the country and will catoh sonaething - Qf the
haughtiness , perhaps a little c ^ ntemptuousness which they have themselves remarked with fiurpriee hi the general character of this people , and perhaps still more particularly in the individuals of Germaa origin who tare born in this country .
" This sentiment of jraperiority over an other nations , Which never : leaves them , and which has been so very diepleasing to foreigner * iWito have vvdted our fthoreo , ptoceeds from the opinion enter ^ ined by enc 4 i lnHlvidagal , tbat , i » quality of a member t of society , there is
no person in 4 his c < mntry superior to bun . Proud Qf this jfe ^ ip § , he rpg ^ rds with some . ha ^ ghtxnees thos e nations among Whom the mass of the . people are re-«« raefll to m ^ mkte tcf . certain i « Wleged ctte ^ tfol ^ fhiire < # * & * # re pert w in ^ ignrrK ^ nt % tBfe ^ a ^ rd of «« ar VMH ; ^ Kiit ^ ltf ^ Mft ^ ^^^ Pp ^^^ no govemttvtnt In the world h M « s so lituc means ofrbariowbi ^ &voar » of the Untied Stated JTfca hQm ** tm < si ** ^ the ^ fMrv W' ^ ta ^ 4 be J pe <^ e « , w 4 ^ ^ regarded ^ mft * ^ fl * - JFW le > mW ^^^ tewp . tth ^ f , ^ ¦¦ : . . 4 . ¦ the " . Thev ^ ne . etefilea $ 0 adimniater me public affairs for a short space of time ,
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1 Q * jftfr . Adttm ' s Isetter m Emigration to America
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1820, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2486/page/30/
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