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After 1850 the columns of the newspapers in Sweden
and the relatively few Swedish language papers in
America contain abundant evidence that the forces which had
initiated and accelerated the movement of population
from England, Ireland, Germany, and the Netherlands
were developing similiar results in Scandinavia. [1] Hard
times, crop failures, difficulty of securing loans, money
stringency, low wages, men out of work, the demand for
laborers and housemaids due to the American civil war,
the federal immigration law of 1864, a certain
dissatisfaction with church and slate, the propaganda of states
[1] Hemlandet, the first Swedish newspaper in the United
States, was established at Galesburg, Illinois, January 3,
1855, by the able and energetic Rev. T. N. Hasselquist,
perhaps the most influential and best beloved man among
Swedish-Americans. In 1858 the publication office was
removed to Chicago, when Mr. Hasselquist relinquished
the editorship. May 4, 1855, the editor announced that the
subscribers totaled some 600, adding that he saw no
reason why the Swedes could not have as good a paper with
as large a circulation as the Norwegians. He estimated
the number of Swedes in the United States between 60,000
and 80,000. On March 1, 1856, the circulation had almost
reached 1,000. The value of this paper as a source for
the history of Swedish immigration during the years under
review can hardly be overemphasized, Almost every issue
contains extracts from papers published in Sweden,
letters from immigrants in widely scattered communities,
information about Swedish settlements, prices of land,
increase of population, fertility of soil, departure of
immigrant parties from Sweden, and arrival of groups of
immigrants in America. The editorial announcement in English
(March 12, 1855) reads as follows: “We take the liberty
to send this Swedish paper to the editors of several
English and German papers, in hopes that they will have the
goodness to exchange with us. They will in most cases
find persons that are able to read our paper, and to
inform them what sort of sentiments we advocate and spread
among the foreign population of this country. Our
present terms are $1 a year, and we are willing to pay the
difference in price to those exchanges who desire us to
do so.”
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