The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-14
From The charleston Mercury.
TEE NEW PHASE OF CONSOLIDATION.

When party announces that reforms are necessary,
and devotes itself to their il pro
Reribes all other parties unsound and fales the
subectsncce5s and responsibility demand that its plans
should be carefully considered and matured The know
nothing party lays claim to being par ercescs the
American party II the existence of certain evils
and appealing to widespread sentiment cnjoins upon
the country the it proposes the and only
modes Of reform.
Now have in former articles discussed the modes Of
reform upon the matter of suffrage, proposed by the
know-nothing party and think have clearly esab-
lshedfrg by the federal constitution secondly by the
debates and in the convention which framed it;
thirdly by the opinions then and subsequently expressed
b. It's trainers ourhy by the actual practice Of the States
hemsevethat the States have the absolute and exclusive
control OF suffrage If these conclusions be correct it is
evident that any reforms in the matter should come from
the States since without their action all egs
laton besides being usurpaon might be set aside, and
rendered utterly void IL is this point that we now in
ve attention
Immigration of foreigners 10 this country is one Of the
most interesting features in its progress and history Pos
sessng territory vast sparsely peopled yet eemng with
fertility and wealth. the States Of the Union saw that the
policy Of exclusion which prevailed in the old countries
would condemn them to a long pupilnge Of weakness,
dwarf their progress and seal up their Lib
er therefore, foreigners became Of the fundamen-
tai principles OF the land But how regulate mmgra-
ton within proper bounds and the country against
Wild radicals and at the time leave each State free
to adopt whatever il fiji to promote its
internal welfare and material advancement prob
lem which taxed the highest wisdom. Some OF the
States needed population others sufficiently sup
Piled and ii was evident that the Union ex-
tended itself into the unoccupied Territories this
difference would become and marked !;
thus demonstrating the impossbiliy Of establishing
any uniform system which would equally suit all sections
Of the Union Least Of all could that system be regarded
equal or just which cut of from the and thinly
settled States the prospect Of rapid progress in popula
ton because immigration offensive the older States
There but solution difficult problem, and
there Is feature in the whole constitution of the gov
which more nobly yndicates the wisdom Of its
founders than that which left TO each State the power to
act the subject best promoted It's interests In those
States where population dense restrictions upon the
political privileges Of foreigners might be imposed while
in others where population needed immigration might
be invited By easier conditions This Tho system this
the solution this the true American idea established BY
the sages Of s1.
Acting upon this idea Of the States threw open to
foreigners upon the easiest terms the right Of suffrage
They established agencies in the scsboard cities which
should encourage foreigners 10 settle among them; and
pushing this spirit 10 the bounds they sent
agents the cities Of Europe advance there the
great object Of increasing population and developing their
resources And mark what this system has effected The
North and the West have been bounuly supplied with
European labor Foreign hands have built their railroads
erected their magnificent public works. worked their mines
uled their fields dug their canalsin short made The
North what is almost magic land in The extent and
Beauty Of is material progress But with al these good