Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-05-30

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them and their purpose, had become the willing,
though unconscious instruments of carrying
that purpose out, which from the beginning, was
Il desire to have rotimgleSS population to do
their work, and perform all the labor, both in
city, town and country, which capital may re-
ouire. And as certainly rs such law shall DC
passed, so far from its checking migration, there
will be whole cargoes of people from other
countries brought over, and literally bought up
in foreign ports-to be brought over in Amcrl-
can ships to supply the market for labor through
out all the free States of the Union. The Atrl-
can Slave Trade, if rc-opcned, would not exhibit
worse spectacle in trallicing in human flesh,
than those most deudcd men of the North who
started this thing, and who are now aiding to
accomplish the end, may find they have but
kindIed flame 10 consume themselves. The
whole sub tratum of northern society will soon
be filling I'D with class who can work, and
who, though ,chue, cannot vote. This Is what
the would-be Lords Of that section have been
wanting for long time 1t is a scheme with
many Of them to get 1chite slares instead OF
black ones No American laborcr, or man seek
inc employment there, who has rote, need to
expect TO be retained long when his place can
be more chcaply filled by atoreigner, who has
none. This will be the practical working on
the proposed reformation. This is the phloso.
ply of the thing. 1t is blow at the ballot box.
1t is an nsidious attack upon general suffrage:
In line with this policy, the "know Nothing"
Governor of Connecticut has already recon-
mended the passage of law denying the right
of rotino TO all who cannot read and write. And
hence, The great effort which are now being
made throughout the North, 10 influence the
elections, not only these, but in spending their
money in the publication of books and tracts,
written by "no body knows who," and scatter
ed broadcast throughout the southern States,
to influence elections here by appealing to the
worst passions and strongest prcIudIccs OF our
nature, not emitting those even which bad ana
wicked men can evoke under the sacred but
proslilued name of religion.
Unfortunately for the country, many evils
which all good men regret and deplore, exits at
this time, which have direct tendency wonder.
fully 10 aid and move forward this i'll omened
crusade These relate to the appointment of so
MANY foreigners-wholly unfit not only TO min
or 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 ot our naturalization laws--these
are evils felt by the whole country, and they
ought to be corrected. Not by prescription of
all foreigners, without regard to individual me-
rits. But in tho first place. by so amending the
naturalization laws, as effectually to check and
prevent these frauds and abuses. And in The
second place by holding to strict accountability
at the polls in our elections, all those public
funclionaries, who either with partizan views or
from whatever motive, thus improperly confer
office, whether high or low, upon undeserving
FOREIGNERS, to the exclusion of native born citi-
zens, better qualified to fill them. Another evil
now felt, and which ought 10 be remedied is
the flooding, it is said, of some of the cities with
paupcrs and criminals from other 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 puupers, or either the keepers or
erecuioners of their felons-these evils can and
ought to be remeded without resorting to an
indiscriminate onslaught upon all who by indus.
try, enterprise and merit may choose to better
their condition in abandoning The respective
dynastics of the old world in which they may
have chanced to have been born, and by uniting
their energies with ours may feel pride in ad-
vancing the prosperity, development and progress
of a common country not much less dear to
them than to US. Against those who thus wor.
thily come, who quit the misruled Empires Of