This country htrs received a vety large acession to its German ptoptulttio front titis very. cause. ltlonsands of youug people have looked longingly across tite ocan its the fild where no arbitrary distinction would prevent their union. and they saved their scant earnings for years to enable them to pay their passage. These people ots reaching the seaboard at Bremen. or Hathilirg. or lavre. atd preptring to go aboard thei sitils that was to carry theos to thir new home. generally applied to th Ameriean consul at those ports to be niarriedby him and thus start npon their ocean jotirtcy as legally tial antl wife. Attongthese eiigranttts lI have heard. sre ontyttldmipeople. men and wooen. who but for the laws of their own ctuntry would have been married years before. but thy waited to accumulate the otoney for their emigration. atln in the meat time chilreit wtrn tte result of their intercourse. These also legitiuatizad t.heir otispring by their marriage in presence of the cousil before lcaxhw [ti America. Such had grown to be the practice for nany years prior to tse passage of the act of 1860. and eveu without that act eourts have held sutt marriages valid. except as a fotndation for prosceition for bigamy as being t binding civil contract evidenced by th ctnsalar certificate.
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