Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-05-18
*. NISM DESIGNED TO CRUSH THE
POLITICAL POWER OF THE
NORTH AND GIVE The BALANCE
OF POWER TO THE SOUTH,

Testimony Of Err Coz SMIru Of Yiginiu.
q will never interfere with foreigners
now in the country but know foreigners
who approve the policy of arresting the iin-
porlation OF foreigners. Tho origin of the
Know No'hngs Ia a struggle for bread--a
inghuul and angry question at the North
At the south II Is political question of high
Importance. The North has So more Rep
rescntatyes than the South already The
natural increase of the South is ] 3 greater
Than that OF the North, because there are
greater checks on population there but the
artificial clemen, of toregnism brings &c.,
900 who settle annually IN the free States,
with instincts against slavery, making 80
Representatives in 10 years TO swell opposi-
ton to the South To stop this enormous
dlsproportlon, what is our policy; What Is
the frigh,iul prospect before US 2 The cFd
Of Know .Noihingism is 10 turn back th' tide
of immigration, and oW highest duty 10 the
SouM is 10 discourage immigrGlron. dep
recate it as u great calamity" Speed Of
Cor. Smith
Testimony of Hon TnomAs S. FLouRNor,
4. " Candidaie for Governor Of jir-
ginia.
The South is especially and deeply in
terested N this question this immense and
annual addition to our population settle IN
the non slaveholding States, and the extern
sve territories of the West aud Northwest,
out of which free States will, in consequence,
be more speedily formed, increasing with
fearful rapdity the balance OF power against
us."-Letier Of 1hos. S t7oVnoy.
.4noi,er Sioreordiic FITNESS 10 HE sanls po;n.
/ In 1853 there arrived 10 New York }6S,-
CAB foreigners, and IN 1851 372 725 nine-
ienhs Of whom settled IN the North. Tho
las, census shows that there are l,e6G,39l
persons OF foreign birth IN the non slave
holding, and only 37S,205 in the savehold-
ing States, being about 1--WE IN the former to
one ~ the latter--See Compendium of Cen I
sus, by ]. l.. b. DE Bow, p. ia.
Gen. b. +. Stringfellow, a distinguished .
member of the Democratic party in NJ ssou-
/ II, and formerly Attorney General Of that
State, IN a pamphle, entilled Negro S!av> /
cry no Evil" gives some curious statistics I
about foreign Immigrants. He shows that
according to the last census the six New /
England States have about tho same popnl- /
alton as the five Southern States of Mary
land, Virginia North Carolina, South Caro-
lima and Georgia:
Free Population.
New England States 272sOlG
Five Southern 2,73O2li
, 2lOS
lie also shows, that with equal populations
the New England States have ll,5A more
families, whilst TIE FIVE Southern States have
1885 more annual births and that the na.
tural annual increase by birth Is ~ per cent
greater In the South than IN the North--lhus;
Families. Aanual hiHh,
7 New England Staios 5le,Gil 6l,I4s
Five Southern - 506,g6s 1853
lie also shows, that in the North the deaths
are IN the proportion Of ! to "a, whilst In
the South they are 10 e5 or nearly 80 per
cent. in favor of the slayeholding States
thus:
New England States 42,366 TO "a
Fiye Southern 32,2l6 to IS
From these il viii be seen that the FIVE
slayehoding States have the advantage in
natural annual births and deaths Of 90 per
cent "a 10 births and 30 in deaths. How
is n then, that the population Of New Eng
land increases more rapidly than that Of the
Southern States mentioned?
. The answer will at once suggest itself 10
every rejecting mind. Foreign emigration
emPies us stream Of paupers and conyic,s
INTO The lap OF New England, where It's
dregs settle down 10 increase her abolition