Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-06-14
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perable obstacle between them and
: their purpose. had become the will
ling, though. unconscious Instruments
of carrying that purpose out, which.
from the beginning, was a desire to
have "votingless" population TO do
their work, and perform all the labor,
both in city, town and country, Which
capital may require. AMI as GER
taiuly as such law shall be pas ;ed,
SO far from its checking emigration,
there will be whole cargoes of peo-
pie from other countries brought
over and literally bought up in for
Ieign ports-to be brought over IN
American ships TO supply the mar.
ket for labor throughout all the free
States of the Union. The African
Slave Trade, if reopened, would lot
exbibit worse spectacle in traffick-
ing in human flesh, than those most
deluded men Of the North who START
ed this thing, and who are now aiding
to accomplish the end. May they find
they have but kindled flame to con-
sumo themselves. The whole SUBJ
stratum of Northern society will soon
be filling up with class who can work,
and who, though white, cannot vote,
This is what the would-be Lords OF
that section have been wanting for a
long time. 1t is a scheme With many
of them to get white slaves, instead
of black ones. No American labor-
er, or man seeking employment there,
who has vote, need to expect to be
retained long, when his place can be
more cheaply filed by a foreigner,
who has none. This will be the prac-
ticaI working of the proposed reiorma-
ton. This is the philosophy of the
thing. tbs blow at the ballOt-box.
1t is an insidious attack upon gen.
eral suffrage. In line with this
policy, the Know Nothing Governor of
Connecticut has already recommend
ed the passage of law denying the
right of voting to all who cannot
read and write. And hence the
great efforts which are now being
made throughout the North, to in
1uence the elections, not only there,
but in spending their money in the
publication of books and tracts,
written by "no body knows who, and
scattered broadcast throughout the
Southern States, to influence eloc-
tions here by appealing to the worst
passions and strongest prejudices OF
our nature, not emitting those even
which bad and wicked men eau
evoke under the sacred but prostltu-
ted name of religion.
Unfortunately for the country,
many evils which all good men regret
and deplore exist at this time, which
have direct tendency wonderfully to
aid and move forward this ill-omened
crusade. These relate to the appoint
ment of so many foreigners, wholly
unfit, nos only to minor offices at
home, but to represent our country as
Ministers abroad. And to the great
frauds and gross abuses which at
present attend the administration OF
our naturalization laws-these evils
arefelt by the whole country, and they
ought to be corrected. Not by a
prescription of all Foreigners, with
out regard to individual merits;
but, in the first place, by SO
amending the naturalization laws, as
effectually to check and preventthese
frauds and abuses. And in the
second place, by holding to strict
accountability at the polls In cur
elections all thosepublic funcsionaries,
who, either with partizan views or
from whatever motive, thus improper
Iy confer office, whether high or low,
upon undeserving Foreigners, to tie
exclusion of native born citizens, bet
terqualifed to ell them. Anotherevil
now felt, and which ought to be rem
edied is the Aooding,itis said, of some OF
our cities with paupers and criminals
from, otber Countries. These ought
all to be Internationally excluded
and prohibited from coming amongst
us; there is no reason why We should
be the feeders Of other nations pau
pers, or either the keepers or ex-
ecutioners Of their felons-these evils
can and ought to be remedied with
out resorting to an indiseriminate
onslaught upon all who by indus
ry, enterprise and merit, may choose
! to better their condition in abandon
ling the respective dynasties OF the
old world in which they may have
ichanced to have been born, and by