Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1855-10-02
rr.~ MINERAL POINT WIS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER e. 1855
over by which she is working out this

power ny WHICH she is working out this
result.
In addressing ourselves to this inquiry
We look in vain for any natural cause fol
this great Northern preponderence of
| power-we look In vain for any reason in
nature why the population of the North
should be greater than ours-so much Sc
as to enable her to send forth her Co
lonies from her redundant population
| to people new States But by reference
to our census reports we find that about
/ half a million forei igners come annually
to our shores and seek homes in heNorth
as naturally as like begets like Deriving
their information in the old world of the
new principally through Northern chan.
nels, they come here with prejudices
already deep seated in their mind against
the institutions of the South princi pally
on account of the great Northern idea
they have already imbibed that slavery
comes in competition with, and degrades
white labor With these feelings toward
the institutions of the South, they gener-
ally seek some Northern port, where they
possess themselves of outfits, together
with plenty of advice from land mongers
and Abolltionists, as to where they could
best settle and establish themselves
Hence the great Northwest, in whose
lands New York was largely interested,
is so thinkly settled by foreig ers that
they are in a majority in many places.
And particularly is this the case in Wis
consin and Northern Illinois. those sink
holes of infdelty and abolitionism, in the
former of which agrarianism fourishes,
and IN the latter the prophet Stephen was
stoned and refused the liberty of speech
With these facts staring US in the face,
we are forced irresistibly to the conclusion,
that this foreign emigration is the main
source of the power destined to be welded
to the destruction ofSouthern interests
1t Is unlmportant to us whe her these
emgrants vote the Whig, Freesoil, or
Democratic ticket, at the \ North, or in
what part of that rigion they settle.
But it is sufficient for us to ow that
the North absorbs large portion of this
foreign population. That is going to
swell the measure of her power, and
lenghten the shadow Of her States. find
ing it even now from the Atlantic upon
the tranquil bosom of the great sea of
Balboa. 1t is sufficient for us to know
that those foreigners 90 to swell the
influence Of the North as section
which already extends from Ocean to
Ocean, with millions of outlets through
winch it is borne South. We say this
should be sufficient to awaken the jealousy
effort 10 lay tie are ut the root Of this tree
ofe05k far this haIf million of forcig5acrs
aetolet to the natural increase 0fthe Noyth
aciU assureaoiy enaJlc Ter to hecLgc as IN
as acitA q aoaH Of .frc and smotAcr out
slavery torerer.
Demagogues need not tell US that
Americanism has abolition affinities-
th 1t konw Nothingism is popular at the
North-this all amounts to nothing. II
the secret feature there has been subsidiz-
ed to the unholy purpose of electing
Abolitionists to high places, it is against
Americanism as developed in theP Philadel-
/ phia platform These men of the North
have often borrowed the livery Heaven to
serve the devil in-the pulpit-the Bible
the holy religion OFF esus-.have all been
made subsidiary to their base designs
/ The law of God-the higher law (as they
call it)-has been invoked to justify them
in violating an oath to support the Con
stitution of the United States, by re-
preventative of those who are insncere
in all things that does not tend to the
worship of their woody headed god
AbolitiOntSns. If proof is wanting of this
none stronger could be found in the elec
tion of Seward to the United States Sen
ate. Bitter in his opposition to Ameri
canism, be denounced Know Nothingisn
with virulence paralelled only by the
terrible phillipics of his Tennessee neo
phyte; yetsome deserted their standard
openly renowned the order and gave
him their votes whilst. according tC
Greely-Democrats stood ready and
pledged to cooperate in the same dirty
work should their service be needed.
But let Us go back to the enquiry. I
tbs annual tnfur Of half a million o
! foreigners compatible ac'th the eriSte,sce o
African SAarery IN tie South
The great anchor OF hope for large
portion Of the Anti-Slavery men appears
to lie in this foreign emigration They
argue upon sound principles of politIca
economy, that this large increase of for
eign laborers viii eventually bring abou
such compensation in labor. that it vii