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POPULAR MISCELLANY. 



Nationalities in New York City. " The 



Impress of Nationalities on the City of New 

 York" is the subject of a paper recently 

 read by Mr. James W. Gerard before the 

 New York Historical Society. The subject 

 is a difficult one, for the impress is multiple 

 and the population of the city is exceedingly 

 heterogeneous. The characteristics of the 

 old population were derived from the Dutch 

 and the English. The Dutch brought with 

 them the same spirit of independence that 

 had characterized their forefathers and 

 made them in Europe the pioneers of civil 

 rights, and which had become national in- 

 stincts. They also brought the spirit of 

 toleration. During the English period the 

 descendants of the Dutch settlers kept equal 

 in the race with their English brethren in 

 all matters of political and military action 

 and enterprise. Their thrift and plodding 



industry and business sagacity have left 

 their marks to this day. The French Hu- 

 guenots, who came over during the period 

 of the French persecutions, brought an im- 

 proved cookery and a national gayety and 

 courtesy that tended much to modify the 

 habits and manners of our people. When 

 we consider the principles and origin of the 

 population thus formed, we can well imagine 

 that the men were not afraid of the Revolu- 

 tion. " These were the descendants of the 

 Dutch patriots, of Independents of the Eng- 

 lish fighting - stock under Cromwell, of 

 French Huguenots, of banished Covenanters 

 from Scotland, of soldiers of Monmouth's 

 rebellion, and of men who had fought under 

 the banner of both of the Pretenders." The 

 Anglo-Saxon has, however, been the domi- 

 nant type here, with which the Dutch and 

 French have been absorbed by intermar- 

 riage ; and the conditions of settlement and 

 acclimatization, acting on the combined type, 

 have produced a new, deviating race. To 

 this may be added the infusion of the blood 

 of the New-Englander, who is more conserv- 

 ative in character, more grave in tempera- 

 ment, and at the same time more enter- 

 prising and more persistent in action than 

 the descendants of the Dutch and English 

 settlers. This element, though Anglo-Saxon 

 and formed into the local life, has still dis- 

 tinctive features. The deviation of the new 

 race is apparent in its physical, mental, and 

 perhaps in its moral attributes, and also in 

 its lingual expression. Under the condi- 

 tions of the new life, nerve-force and energy 

 have been called upon, and have developed 

 rapidly. The Irish and German nationali- 

 ties, more recent acquisitions, have exercised 

 great influence upon the city and its inhabit- 

 ants. New York endures most of the evils 

 and gets least of the advantages of immi- 

 gration. The Irish, from their knowledge 

 of our language, have exerted a stronger 

 influence upon the city than the Germans, 

 who keep more apart, and a greater propor- 

 tion of whom travel westward or settle in 

 districts of the city where they are sepa- 

 rated from the rest of the population. But 

 while the Dutch and the French have flowed 

 into the general result, the Irish and Ger- 

 mans have been of too late introduction to 

 have become factors in the formation of the 

 general local character. 



