The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-01-05

tried snd found inscient shsrs would be ample rcason
" ass the enactment Of laws Bns there ls no sh
hequcns Charged indcsus@nts are ssw and consIe
uons stun more unffequent II tho evil The mag
niinde described u offences many and puashmcuts
so rare The root Of the evil would Ii. deeper
an Imperfect statute cannot lie in the LAW merey Cor
that would be pointed out and rne.ed the officers
wholesome public opinion would nprl them % he ais
charge of he duty but il lies deeper fear Ii lies
corrupted Psble sentiment Individuals dislike the labor
and inconvenience with which prosecution II attended
and After an ebuiuon Of temper and sow new spaper
paragraphs upon election frauds the matter is allowed
drop Mother reason perhaps quite clhctnsi = ihas
poh parties in The cities have been engaged the dsrc
nele work Of procuring fraudulent votes and each fears
70 provoke inquiry into its conduct by attempting
voting complained Of ccn6ns to foreigners ., whe
Is the temptation comMit tho offence offered Certainly
our own native eitissaa and IL strange that ihe
whot Indignation vlsatad upon the foreigner who is
denounced ~ gAorant snd corrupt aud scarcely
cure i visited rvpn hA native who corrupted hiu ana
VINO suppose oy contrast " 70 be regarded as in'ell
But Mr. Chairman il seass - NE that the cause of tho
evil which is ascribed the inm grafton Of Foreigners
may be justly sought for further back than the
diton Of public sentiment where II exists As State be-
comes more refined and populoas the disparity the
dion or the people becomes greater The inequalities 81
wealth aud social advantages the rich
become richer and the poor poorer II there be any meth
Cd OF preventing this result political philosophy has NOT
yet announced III and the evil has begun be e in this
country in our large cities There in all OF them poF-
ton Of the community, happily for us yet small who are
sunk in vice and ignorance As the population becomes
denser there will be accessios constantly the number
and in due time there win exist class In this country
in the Old World, in which vice. and crimc and destu
ton viii be the hereditary condition Ii is from this class
and those who approach its condition. that the material
for fraudulent voting is drawn In agricultural regions
where the means Of living cheap and abundant "a is
almost unknown; but rule believe the evil win Bo
found to Increase in proportion with the density of
the population So Ear this class exist among us large
share Of it. believe viii be found among the foreign pop
he Whr
the vice OF proetanism mainly exists and besaase the
native population, from its superior intelligence and
familiarity with the mode Of lite here has retained the
more lucrative occupations leaving the foreigner tho
humber aud cheaper ones and those which first
fer from revulsions In trude aud Population
and production march on closely togsther there viii not
for any great length Of time be wide disparity between the
supply Of food and the number opeope IT, And
when the amount produced and that requisite for consun
ton are about equal slight decrease of the former OF
the supply ofabor by which to be Produced results in
poverty and starvation Such is the state Of things in the
greater part Of Europe Such in mitigated form getting
to be the condition Of larger cities The accounts of the
desttution prevailing in Of them among the hon
coming winter are hcartrendng Yet has not
caused iii the tariff has not caused it. foreigners have
caused ii even the present war though that event
may have prccipated it, II il the effect OF those
tons which the Inevitable condition of existence and
which are brought about by the whole variety of those
perpexed which have produced result which
we call the present state of things Our very prosperity
has been as effective In bringing 1t about any other
cause High excitements in the commercial world al
the suggestions OF quacks and their still dangerous
remedies, alike to be discarded Republican nsiitu
taxes and guilty wars but scy cannot secure as against
the memorable Laws OF trade commerce. and manufactures
It Isl then, unjust to ascribe to transient causes evils
which appear insearnble from the structure of civilized
ciety
But sir if all these evils were the result of fraudulent
voting how would the mischief be remedied by extending
the period OF probation from five twenty years II
five years delay is rksome that the foreigner will risk
the penalties Of fraudulent voting and perjury to escape y
1t seems To me the temptation would be multiplied four
fold by increasing the delay to twenty-one years.
So far as the extension Of the period to twenty years
Is sentiment mere qualification of feeling or preu-
dice u either above or beneath reason but as states
mans remedy for existing abuse entirely i'm
competent and unsatisfac tory
The laws Of naturalization / regard do any other
laws, justly open to revision and amendment II defects
Of any Importance exist they ought TO be remeded prompt
ly and ready to vote for all such changes may be-
found expedient satisfied after listening to all TINT
can hear upon the subject to let the period OF Eve years
remain in the statute; yet am not welded to that
time that would consider change Of il by Congress
an outrage upon the rights Of Foreigners upon the
constitution. ! very ready 10 hear all argument
upon the subject; but far | have comprehended
the evils under which we said to labor find
evil OF foreign population is bard yn0ced in the dis
CUSTOM and the changes of the law proposed and the per-
scouting creed OF the know-nohings alike trivial when
compared with it. The magnitude OF the evil these mid
night reormers perhaps but fear 70 gappe with The
discussion Of too pregnant with the high
philosophy races population and government to be ham
died by those whose whole political pharmacy spersccuon
whose highest ambition the election of Irish tidewaer
from his Office and the summit OF their craftsmanship TO
combine the usms that against the democrats who
The real danger u.s. that foreigners win congre-
gate in States of the Union in such numbers peserv
ing the language manners, and traditions Of the Old
World to root out the native population speaking the
English tongue, and that may to be conederacy
Of States foreign in origin in language, customs instr
utions and religion, the several nations combined
by force under the sway of the Emperor Of Austria the
Gar of Russia Nothing tend to accomplish this
speedily than prescription II the foreigner finds himself
OF degraded caste while living among the native
population he will naturally seek those regions in which
his own countIymen numerous, and little more
concentration of the foreign population in Of the
northwestern States will give them absolute numerical
majority and insure the control there In such event
they would, of retaliate the prescription under
which they had suffered they would, perhaps, become
intolerant the know-nohings and permit
natye-born citizen, the OF native, or
hold Office they would send naturazed Foreigners rep
resent them here ia both houses they would have the
constitutional right to do they would have their relative
weight in presidential elections and the foreign vote
would then be something distinct and papable po
Clans 70 intrigue after No state Of things could be
deplorabe than the OF races, Of which this order
Is the beginning, and il il be not crushed by the
honesty and OF tho people, may give
our history chapter dark and bloody that Of the
English revolutions, of the religious Of the Huge
nots and Catholics in France. You know that this is
the evil to be dreaded in the future compared 10 which all
German anttSabbath societies. Irish riots Illegal voting
and foreign military companies sink into utter nsign-
cauce and hptu vi ths