Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-01-04

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ing; and Story, a0d some Of our best eommen.
iators, backed by numerous decisions, lay down
Chat Congress can alone confer power 70 aci
judicially in Courts constituted BY itself, and
that they cannot thus confer judieAl power on
State tribunals, over whose organizations they
have no control. However tLis point may be
ultimately decided. il is to be hoped that &C.
quired rights will be al any rate protected By
remedial legislation, as while no fraud should
be suffered under the law, the Law itself has
been PRACTICALLY administered heretofore 90 q 10
work fraud on innocent persons, If they have
been deceived by the ac,iop.of Congress and
the courts heretofore. On l@ subject the late
lecture Of Bishop Hopkins in Boston, an Irish :
man himself BY birth, deserves particular at
lention.
There never was great movement Of the
masses without some cause for il, and the cry
Of alien and sedition laws SET up by interested
denisgcgueS, who have been in the habit Of
manulacuriag illegally. foreign votes, to bOl-
ster themselves into Office, will not deter the
public fIom cody sud calmly investigating the
whole subject A period OfProbation, that
might have been very proper when the eoun-
try was FIRST settling, may be sn1irely too short
now, when circumstances are so changed. Du-
ring the8ast four years. the country has been
flooded with an emigration nearly two thirds
of the amount that emigrated to the country for
the sixty years previous to the census Of 1880,
as will appear by the following table.
Total foreign born population
OfU. s, by census Of 1850, 2,a44,640
Emigration according TO De
Bows table, 1880 $3.50
ls5a;I5m 4Ss. .43T
d" g 1863, 372.725
=" " to Nov. 9O, 1854, 368.663
Total 1,460.S0
This shows an average of $4,000 or 1000
per day. This rate in ten years would give a
to tai Of :, ,S6S 600. which would nearly equal
the national increase, S3t per cent. on the ma
live white population of The United States dur
ing the same period. taking 10000 90 as the
basis. In view of the fact that the ative and
foreign born population are so rapidly approach
ing an equality Of numbers, is il at all surpris
ing that Americans are beginning to look to
the future, and inquire whether it is not sufi-
cisnt to allow these large masses to settle a
mongst us, and be protected by our laws, with
out suffering them to be used by demagogues
to govern US? The number of 2,944,648 for
eigners, as exhibited by the census returns OF
1850, as the accu mutation Of sixty years, from
1890, is a small element compared with four
teen millions ofnetiyes, but when the next cen
sus promises an increase of 3.650.000 being
over / 200, 600 more in the next ten years, than
during the last sixty; it is fact which furnish
es subject Of serious reflection to statesmen.
At any rate, the masses of our thinking popu-
lation, who have no Office to ask and therefore
none to pander for, are disposed TO consider
what effect such huge voting mass controlled
by an unseen hand, will have on the homogen-
ity of our population and the stability of our
institutions, which depend on tAe predOmin-
ance of American ideas of revolutionary date,
and not on radical. imported French notions.
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