The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-04-19

virginia. one is not acting Tor nerseH aioHe'
She is a leading member of this great sister
hood of States, and her action will be felt tor
veal or woe, by them all. Her destiny is iden-
tilted with theirs, and she cannot look with IN
difference to the fact, that the great valley OF
the Mississippi, watered by twenty thousand
miles of navigable rivers, and the immense
and fertile Territories stretching beyond, to the
Pacific, capable of sustaining population OF
one hundred millions, are rapidly filling up with
this class of people.
Tie South IS especially and deeply interested
an this question. This immense and annual
addition to oar population settle an the non
siareholding States, and the ertensire Terrific
ries of the Vest and Northwest, out Of schich
free States aoiU, IA consequence, be more speed
lily formed, Increasing ,cih fearful rapidly
the balance Of po,oer against as.
will advert to one other principle of the
American Party, the "non-interrentiOn Of the
Federal and State Governments NTH the mu-
nicipdl affairs Of each other" The strict OBJ
serrance Of this principle ,ciH make the nnion
Of the States perpetual.
THE ERA OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AGTTA-
TON TO BE SUPPRESSED.
Extract from speech Of r. T. Daniel a DIS
tinq1tished member Of tie Richmond Va
Bar, delirered at public meeting, an Rich
mOnd, 1prH 81, and published in tile Amer
lean Organ, april 18th.
There is a revolution going on in this coun-
try, and he who could not see and feel it, could
not feel the earthquake, if the world trembled
under his feet. He hailed it as the dawn of a
reviving nationality almost extinct-a recon-
bining of the scattered elements of Conserva-
tism-and the kne of that demdgogue-ery,
whose whole function is the keeping of great
men out of Office and the putting of little ones
in. The condition of things when the new era
began was alarming. The old issues, which
made parties national, were dead. The cur
rency question was settled, whether well or. i'll,
it was no time to discuss. The tariff, modified
by Mr.. Walkers treasury orders, legalized I'M
der the auspices he believed, of Mr.. Hunter,
was so protective, that the manufacturers them
selves cried out, Enough! The lands had been
given away, or were about to be, under the
same auspices; and, in the absence of old
causes of division, the country was fast settling
down into the most deplorable of all conditions,
that of mere geographical and sectional diois-
ions-the fires Of an unholy fanaticisns blazing
on one side; on the other, a deep, silent, sullen,
6r0oding resentment.
Yet there were men laboring for selfish pur-
poses to keep up the machinery of old, eGete
organizations, after their vitality had passed
away. The new movement substitutes some
thing higher and better. IL aims to put dozen
Stocery agitation. 1t aims to put power in
this country where it ought to be, in the hands
of wise, sound, national men; to restrain that
immense and growing evil, which should long
ago have engaged the active interpostion of
the Government, which makes the New World
a penal colony of the Old; settles on our public
domain the refuse of foreign societies, the scum
and off-scouring of European population there
to build mp Free Soil communities, hostile to
the South, alien 10 her IN sentiment, aouh tie
grOUinQ 1Oicer to dominate and dOminecr in
the affairs Of His nation. This process as go
ing on at the rate Of hundreds Of thousands
year. The Siarery representation IN Congress
as, acW soon be, a mere drop IN the ocean.
Al This foreign, emigration, being free labor, IS
deadly hostile TO siIpe labor, and to the political
influences Of ,Siave,y. The South may noe
make q stand If she can enlist tie free natire
labor Of the North againstthe foreign immigrant
element, she may check both Ia their assaults on
the South. The nep increment promises TO do
this. IL wiH check the too easy communication
Of political prioileges to this foreign and too
frequently hostile element.
"lF SHE CAN ENLIST THE FREE NATIVE La
RoR OF THE NORTH AGAINST THE FOREIGN
ELEMENT, SHE NAY CHECK BOTH IN
THEIR ASSAULTS on THE SOUTH"
Will the Free Soil Press in Maine and New
which has been aiding and abettng
this antagonism between "free native labor and
the immigrant element" lay this to heart?
To complete this view of Know Nothingism,
we reprint the sayings of Ex-Governor Smith,
who hates free myers" in Virginia as much
as some Free Soil papers hate "paddies" in
New Hampshire:
81 will never interfere with foreigners now
in the country; but know foreigners who APP
prove the policy of arresting the importation
of foreigners. The origin of the Know Moth
iags is struggle for bread-a frighifM and
angry question at the North. At the South, 1t
is a political question Of high Importance.
The North has ftfy:fre more Representatives.
than the South already. The natural increase
Of the South as onebiird greater than that Of
the North, because there are greater checks on
population there but tie artificial element of
foreignism brings 100000, who settle annually
in the free States, scith instincts against ,Sla-
rery, making .ffty Representatives. in ten gears,
to s'ceH the opposition to tile South! TO stop
this enormous disproportion chat IS our poll
cy? What as the .JrightfM prospect before usP
The effect Of KnoT Nothingism is to turn
back The tide of immigration, and oar highest
duty 10 the South is to discourage immiqra-
hon. deprecdte it asa great calamity"