New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-16

ers or 10 lay obstacles in the way of European
immigration. This fact was the hope of the
Hindoos. All the services, all the sacrifices,
all the degradation, all the lifelong servility
of the Democracy could not, they
thought, weigh against it. They might
protest till doomsday that they were
sound in their devotion to the interests Of slave
breeding and -drving-but what Of that
Did they not in the same breath contend for ia
restricted immigration, for a moderate period Of
naturalization, and for equal privileges for nat
uralized and native citizens And is it not
perfectly clear that this policy is calculated to
build up the North and to increase its prepon-
derance in wealth, population, and power' Is
it not a policy more beneficial to Freedom.
Il an to Slavery Certainly it Isl aud on
this self-evijent proposition the new party
based their anticipations of a sure and per-
manent triumph not Only in Virginia but in
all the Southern States. The same cagses-so
they argued-which innu ,nced one must in
fuepce ALL Eativism is 10 itself congenal to
the general doctrines and aims of the Oligarcby.
Their controlling sentiment is jealousy of the
Free States and Of their growing importance.
They have nothing to lose by srcesting the tide
of immigration for the immigrants all carry
their capital their labor and their enterprise to
the more wholesome and thrifty air of Freedom.
| The millions of men and Of money, the varied
branches OF industry, the cultivated brains and
| the strong arms that immigration has added to
the Republic, are scarcely known south Of
Mason and Dixons Line, or known only by
report and in the census returns. The strangers
rel der Freedom stronger and Slavery compare
lively weaker. 1t is true that they have gener-
ally been made TO vote for Slavery, but yet they
add to the superior weight of Freedom, and
when such question as that of Kansas is
brought up they arc likely to give their practl'
cal support to that eide also. There was then
every motive-such was the shrewd calculation
ofOurN National Nothings-why the Slavery
Propaganda should ardently hasten to enrol
themselves in their lodges and swear allegi-
sncs to their leaders and prophets.
But the SOuthei men were not to be caught
with chaf. They knew the world too well to
abandon party whose practice they were sure
of, for one whose theory might have plausible
appearance but whose action could not be relied
on. True, the Know-Nothing doctrine was far
more Pro-Slavery than that of the Democrats;
but on the other hand, it was notorious that at
the North where the Order originated, many
Jealous and incorporating anti-slayery men
had become connected with it. Besides, it was
equally notorious that in every State where it
had carried an election it had gained that re-
suit by subordnating itself to the predominant
feeling of public indignation at the admission
of Slavery into the new Territories. In all
these States it was openly and entirely pledged
to the restoration of the Missouri Prohibition,
while in New-York, where it represented the
Pro-Slavery sentiment of the Silver Grays and
Hunkers alone, it bad been defeated without
hope Of recovery. Under such circumstances
| the Oligarchy were not such fools as to trust
themselves to the new party They doubted the
bland assurance with which MessIs. Ullmann,
Barker g. Co. promised to control these hostile
and fermentiDg elements and bring them into
submissive cooperation with the Missourian
mob and the CaroliDian fire eaters. According
| " they adhered to the Democrats and to the
Pierce Administration. Then the impotence of
Know-N Othineism at the South at once became
apparent; and we now see that its strength in
that section consists merely of the relics of the
former Wing party and few LocOFocos who
have failed to get Office Aside from Tennessee
where the Wings were always powerful and
where peculiar circumstances seem to favor the
eli ction Of Gentry, there is not single State
which the Natives can hope to carry, no matter
what their platform nor how boisterous their
proft ssions The slave interest is more than
ever identified with the "NatOnal Constitution
I" al Democracy"
The South having thus decisiyely rejected
Nativism and pronounced veto en- the aspira-
tons for Office Of Messrs. Fillmore, Barker,
Garrett Davis, Ullman, and the rest of that
tribe, is it Tot time for the mass of those who
have adopted the creed Of the Order without at
the same time resigniDg their powers of thought,
to reconsider their extreme Natvist opin .ons
Is il not time for them to understand the truth
that the immigration of foreigners, who come
here to employ their capital and labor and to
establish for themselves all the interests of
life, is in high degree favorable to the cause
OF Freedom7 Is it not time for them to per-
ceive that free discussion and free schools offer
the surest palladium against all ecclesiastical
encroachment, and that when tie Catholic
Church is being stripped of it's temporal power
even in Spain and Italy, it can never be danger.
Gus TO the independence Of America 1t would
seem that they should now look into these
things; and in doing go they can find no bstter
guide than the Address of the Northern men,