The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-04-12

Ism Wdy, Ne explains IN the IoiloWlhg eAtrect
from late speech delivered by him in Vir-
GINA;
Il will never interfere with foreigners now
in the country; but know foreigners who ap-
prove the policy Of arresting the importation
of foreigners. The origin Of the Knor Moth
mos IS a struggle for bread frightfni and
angry question al the North. Al he South, IL
is a political question Of high importance.
Fke NORTH las Rffy,fre more Representatives
than tle SoatR already. The natural increase
Of Tie SostA IS oae-tkird greater than that Of
the North, bcodHse there are greater checks on
population there; Dat the artificial element Of
foreigniSm brings 500, 0oO ,cho settle annually
rerN making .fffy Representatives an ten years,
TO s,reH the opposition TO the South To stop
this enormous disproportion, ,rhat IS Our poll
cy9 Whdt is the ,trightfm prospect before usP
The effect Of Kno,o Nothingism as to turn
back the tide Of immigration, and our highest
duty TO the South IS 10 discourage imnigra-
ton. Ideprecate 1t as a great calamity"
While these Pro-Slavery men are looking to
the Know Nothings to prevent the multiplied
ton of free States, and to reduce their politi-
cal weight, others in the South are trusting to
their efforts to notioRalize," as they call it,
the People Of the free States, so as to lead
them to ignore the Slavery Question, and thus
allow the perpetuation of the rule of Slavery.
Hear the Louisville (Ky.) Journal:
ave have been informed, on what we regard
as wholly unquestionable authority, that Ma
tional Council of the American or Know
Nothing party was held few days ago in the
city of New York that it consisted of numer-
Ill al Of IrInn hat
a motion was made by one of its members to
engraft Free-Soilism upon the party creed and
that the resolution icas roted dozen unanimously.
We do not know that the American party will
fully succeed in Matchmaking itself in regard
to the Slavery question, but We believe that it
is making q sincere and earnest effort to do 50,
i'm despite of the exertions of some influential
men in its organization and we hope trust,
and believe, that it will be successful"
But we have not yet done. In our early ar
ticles on the subject, we said that one effect of
this new party would be, to give new lease of
life to " Old Hunker Democracy" by supplant-
ing the only issue on which it could be prostra-
ted irretrievably, by one which would rein
vigorate it, and probably bring it into power
once more. And now, what do we see? You
tell us you have carried New Hampshire tri-
umphantlyl Aye but you care not to admit,
what is a fact, that the vote given for Governor
Baker, the Hunker Democratic candidate, is
not far short of the heaviest Democratic vote
ever cast in that State so that, one or two
more victories of the same kind, las the Ne
braska issue may lose its power,) will leave
the State in the hands of the old dynasty.
Worse still in Connecticut: while you have
carried the Legislature and Congressman
against the Administration, we are left to
guess at the Anti-Slavery character of the
members elect, and to speculate upon the fact,
that Ingham, the Hunker Democratic candi
date for Governor equals his highest competi-
tor in the popular vote. Where would Connec
ticut stand to-day, were she called upon to
vote on the question Of the Presidency? Turn
ing our eyes to the West we see the Old Line
Democracy, reinforced BY the German and
Irish naturalized citizens, carrying Cincinnati,
the most important city at the West, right on
the heels of victory in Detroit
Yet you tell us that the Know Nothings
have broken up the old parties They have
done no such thing. 1t was the agitation Of
the question of Slavery that broke them up !;
and had not this miserable Order started up,
to divert the attention and divide the energies
of the free States, they would have "staid
broken up, and the People would have formed
a great party of Freedom. But the Secret
Order, while it absorbed the Wings, and at first
the Free-Soilers, soon gave a new issue to the
Old Line Democracy, on which it is rallying
its lately scattered forces, and its heavy votes
in New Hampshire and Connecticut, with its
municipal victories in the West, give evidence
of its renewed vitality. What Fusion, ANNA
ted by the spirit of Freedom, accomplished
last year, is now in danger Of being subverted
by Know Nothingsm, animated and controlled
by the spirit of Caste and Bigotry.
AS we are dealing with some of the fruits of
Know Nothingism, We may as well close this
article with notice of few of its acts.
State Sovereignty is a sacred article in our
creed. The real safeguard of the personal
rights of the citizen, the true conservative ele-
ment of the Union, the only sure check upon
the dangerous growth of Federal Tyranny, is
State Sovereignty. The shareholders profess
devotion to it, but the necessities of the Slave
Interest are constantly leading them to the
most contradictory acts. Their system of Sla-
very is purely matter of State regulation, but
| they have foisted it within Federal iurisdic-
ton, and brought the whole power of the Peo-
pie of the Union, working through the Federal
Government, to sustain it. The Fugitive Slave
Act forced through at their demand, is a stu
pendous violation of State Sovereignty and
now, by every method that wicked ingenuity
can suggest the Slave Power seeks to subject
the State Courts absolutely to the power of the
Federal Courts Its bill, which passed the
Senate last session, to protect United States
officers, &C., was virtually bill to deprive the
States of the power of guarding the rights of
their citizens. Its avowed determination to
carry the Lennon case before the Supreme
Court of the United States, so as to procure a
reversal of the decision Of the State Court.
| that no slave can be brought within the limits
| OF New York, without becoming, by that act,
free, is another blow aimed at State Sovereign.
| ty. And what do We now see in Ohio? A
girl, thrice brought on habeas corpus before the
State Courts, and thrice discharged as free, be-
cause, as nobody denies, she was conveyed into
the State by the will or consent of the master
is impudently arrested by United States Mar
shall, on writ impudently granted by United
States Commissioner, and the assumption is
thus boldly made that the State is without
power to protect the rights of its inhabitants
and that the Federal Government through its
| minions may establish In il the slave code anf