The New York Herald

The Coming Emigration in 1852.—The emigration to this city alone, from Europe, during the year 1851, has amounted to close upon 300,000 persons. To the entire of the United States, it cannot be less than double that number. The probability is that in the present year a million of human beings will land upon our shores from the Old World, to swell our population, and infuse new elements into it, for good or evil.

This increase in the number of emigrants will result from the dark despotism that broods all over the continent of Europe, and from the increasing poverty and distress that ever flow from the oppression of the people.

Ardent republicans, and all men who cannot endure the galling yoke of the tyrant, will desert their native land, like the Pilgrim Fathers of old, and seek an asylum and a home on this virgin soil, whose teeming fertility and boundless resources and free institutions invite the hand of labor, and industry, and enterprise, from all the down-trodden nations of the earth. In addition to this class, we may expect a large number of political refugees, who will probably be expelled from England, under the potential operation of the diplomatic influence of the despotic powers of the Continent. These will all come here.

And, lastly, a vast portion of the industrious classes—quiet men, who love law and order, no matter of what kind, and do not possess any of the revolutionary spirit—men who wish to earn a decent livelihood, and live in peace, or whose passion it is to speculate and accumulate wealth—all these, either fearing the outburst of revolution at home, or feeling that their industry and energies are wasted in the vain effort to secure an independence for themselves and their offspring in the land of their ancestors, will be wafted across the Atlantic to our seaports—some of them to remain in the large cities, and others to proceed into the agricultural districts of the country—but all producing a favorable influence upon the development of our wealth and prosperity.

But all these classes, whether revolutionary or not in their own countries, will be sure to contribute to the political excitement of this, for no sooner do Europeans arrive upon our shores, than they are seized by the party politicians, and turned to account. Thus, the very source of the augmentation of our national wealth will also add incentives to party spirit, political intrigue, public corruption, and the increasing demoralization of the people.