| The British Empire. | France. | Germany
without Austria. | |
| 1840-41, | $51,000,000 | $24,000,000 | $2,450,000 |
| 1849-50, | 85,000,000 | 27,600,000 | 8,780,000 |
| 1859-60, | 138,600,000 | 43,200,000 | 18,500,000 |
Hence, absolutely, the German exports increased in 19 years only about $16,000,000; the French (without any emigration), over $19,000,000; the English, more than five times the German. Of the 30,633 emigrants who sailed from Bremen in 1874, only 72 did not go to the United States. (D. Ausw. Ztg., 5 Jul., 1875.) The total exports of the United Kingdom to its colonies amounted, 1840-44, to an average value of £7,833,000; 1865-69, to £27,146,000; while those to foreign countries amounted, during the same periods of time, to only from £28,871,000 to £93,558,000. English colonial trade amounted, in 1866, to £6 2s. per capita of the colonial population; the trade with the East Indies, to only 9s. 7d. per capita of the East Indian population. (Statist. Journal, 1872, 123 ff.)
[260-3] There has hitherto been little to rejoice over in the condition of German emigrants. The greater number of them had received so little education that they were by no means in a way to oppose the weapons of attack of Anglo-Americans. The glorious literature of their old home scarcely existed for them. Almost the only national peculiarity which they held to with any tenacity was the disposition to a want of union among themselves. Hence they were necessarily de-Germanized in a few generations, after a toilsome and quarrelsome period of transition. How seldom, even in Ohio, did German names occur in the list of public officials, while in New York the number of German names on the poor list is very considerable. The situation, however, seems to have improved in modern times, and the national coherency and political power of the mother country have gone hand in hand with the revival of attachment on the part of the emigrants to the land of their nativity. How beautifully was this attachment manifested during the Franco-Prussian war in 1870-71!
[260-4] Compare Fr. List, in the D. Vierteljahrsschrift, 1842, No. IV. Dieterici, über Aus- und Einwanderungen, 1847, 18.
[260-5] No Mosquito-coast!
[260-6] How tenaciously have the Germans held to their nationality in Transylvania and the Baltic provinces, and how rapidly they lost it in Pennsylvania!
[260-7] On emigration to Brazil, see v. Tschudi's report of Oct. 6 to the Swiss parliament, 1860.
[260-8] Think only of the project of the Belgian East Indian Company, which Austria could not carry out at the beginning of the preceding century. Proposition by Fröbel (loc. cit., 87 ff.) that England and Prussia should together found a German colony in the valley of the La Plata, to which Wappäus rightly objects, that there are few places there in which peasant emigrants would like to acquire land. (Mittel- und Südamerika, 1866, 1027.)
[260-9] Compare Wappäus, Deutsche Auswanderung und Kolonisation, 1846.