CONSULATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,


Hesse CasseL Sepfember 6, 1876.
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CONSULATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,


Hesse Cassel September 6 1886.


HoNoRABLE SIR: beg leave 10 report, in con
formity to your honor's circular Of the 7th July
last, that, as far as have been able TO ascertain,
none Of the German Governments have caused,
or even indirectly sanctioned, any deportation Of
their pauprrs on the contrary, their laws and fl
nances forbid such operation.


The only forced deportation which has come
to my knowledge, is from the free Iiansealic
town of Hamburg the Government Of which
dtports from time to time those criminals who
have been either condemned for life or long
period: they give them the choice either TO en-
dure their time or to emigrate in which case
the Government pays their passage number
of them have been sent TO New York, and this
year to Brazil.


The great number of German parpers in the
United States arises from the low rate Of passage
money which Of late has existed. Steerage
passengers were taken last spring from Bremen,
and found with good provisions, at $i6 each
grown person. This price the Bremen ship
owners could only afford BY carrying always a
large number, to obtain which they had their
agents all over in the interior Of Germany, and
induced the lower class, which live in IA very
impoverished state, to emigrate, by making them
believe that labor was so much demanded in the
United States that any able.b bodied man could
earn, as soon as landed 80 day. Young and
old, healthy and sickly, thought now Of nothing
but to emigrale.. Every sacrifice was made;
even their clothes were sold, and if this did not
suffice, the balance begged; and all those who
could scrape together enough to pay their pas.
sage went to the United States, where the ma
jorty landed pennirss, and great number Of
them, consisting OF old people, women, and chill
dren, unable to work, as the German Govern
ments do not allow their young men to emgrate
until they have fulfilled their military obligation.
This traffic on the part Of the Bremen ship-ow-
nrrs will continue as long as the laws of the
United States do not make their masters liable
for the support Of the passengers which they
bring to the United States, and orr shores will
be filled so long with paupers Of all kinds.


| have the honor to be the honorable Secreta-
ry's most obedient servant


CHARLES GRAEBE.


Hon. LEVI WOODBURY.,


Secretary Of The Treasury.