Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1855-02-14
Frem the New York Evening Post of Jen enuary 26th
An Important Movement Developed.

BEWARE OF FOREIGN INFLUENCE J. Our
readers will bear witness that this is warning
with which the columns of the Evening Post
are not familiar. We have never before indulg.
ed in the expression of aLy apprehension OF
danger from the alien emigration to the United
States. On the contrary, we have invariably
treated 1t as an important source of national
wealth and prosperity.
But we can no longer shut our eyes to the ex.
istence of dangers from this source, which hith-
erto we have deemed only worthy of smile or
a sneer. The facts which have wrought this
change in orr convictions we will now proceed
briefly 30 state.
We have aScert lined, to our entire satsfac,
ton, that there is Il secret and very numerous
organization,wiIh mysterious agencies in nearly
every village in the United States now actively
engaged in banding together the people of for
seigp- birth auarsc US, and in keeping alive n
mong them all the national preindices and pre-
ferences, political, social and religious, which
they may have brought With them to our shores.
1t seems to be the principal object Of this or
ganization to prevent alien residents from be.
coming interested in and identified with the
American Institutions and people. and from
parting with their allegiance to the govern
ments under which they were born. In accom-.
plishing this result, they neglect no opportunity
OF tomenting the most malignant antipathies
and JeaIousieS in the breasts of alien residents;
they induce them to believe that they will be
deprived of employment that their lives and
property are insecure, and that their churches
will be wrested from them by the courts, or per
haps burned by m0bs. The secret instruments
of this organization have secured prominent
positions in our legislative asSembhes-meas-
ureS OF their devlSInS occupy very consdera-
bic share of the time of our representatives.
its members exert d powerful aud often con
trolling Influence st our political meetings, and
there ale those among them who do not dis
guise their expectation of eleva,ng one of their
order to the Presidency at the next election.
But all their plans, as we have before stated,
contemplate separation of feeling and Of in
terest between our native and foreign born pop
ulation, and in furtherauce of this object they
have recently procured the introduction of a
bill into the United States Senate. which is
designed to limit the privileges of citizenship
to persons who have resided ia the country for
a period of at least twenty one years. This
insidiOuS proposition is advocated upon grounds
OF pretended patriotism, but no one who re
fleets upon its operations for = single moment
can tail to see the darker purpose which lies
behind it;tO bind the foreigners together by the
ties of II common iujusfice, and a common pri-
vatiOn, and az the same time 90 diminish. If not
destroy, all interest the prosperity of their
adopted country They reason correctly, that
II the bali million OF emigraHts from the OLD
country who a;Auaiv seek a home in the u
nitei Srateo we're required to wait twenty one
yeSrS before they were allowed ahy influence in
making the lawt to which they were required to
submit, ~ expending the revenues towards
which they wer required to contribute, in q
va9-' tlyair rswbers would become so
on in oprsmidst,