Iowa Old Press

Burlington Hawk Eye
Burlington, Des Moines co. Iowa
July 3, 1851

More Emigrants Coming
    A telegraphic despatch from New York of the date of June 23d, states that a large number of Hungarian refugees have united with a number of Schleswig-Holsteiners, to emigrate to the United States, to form a colony in Iowa.
    The settlement of the Schleswig Holstein difficulties, by the interposition of Russia and Austria, has left a number of those who were engaged in the late resistance to the authority of the King of Denmark, in nearly the same condition as the Hungarians. The King, it is true, has published the act of amnesty, since the restoration of peace, but he excepts from it the names of a number of those who took part in the late difficulties. These are prescribed; and nothing is left for them, but to seek a place of refuge and safety in some land where they will be out of the reach of the strong arm of oppression.
    It should be a matter of pride and congratulation to us, that our own land affords this refuge, and that it is looked to with anxiety and hope, by the hunted fugitives from other shores. It is to the West- to our State- that their thoughts are more particularly directed. Iowa opens wide her arms to receive and welcome them.