The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-09-28
DECREASE IN FOREIGN PARTICIPATION.

The Philadelphia North American acknowledges the
receipt of private letter from intelligent source in
the north of Ireland" conveying information that the
prevalence of the nothing excitement had done more
to check the Irish exodus America than anything which
has happened for years. The writer says that very
clear notion prevalent respecting the character and ten
cts of the know-nothng organization, and hence arises
most OF the mischief as purposes Of the party
very greatly misrepresented $50 that it is taken to be
pure unmtgated and bitteryprejudiced prescription Of
foreign immigrants moro especially the Irish in all their
relations civil and political"
We can readily understand why it is that journals and
the correspondents of journals with know-noing pro-
civities have taken the alarm. Those who inter-
ested in the occupation and settlement of the virgin lands
of the West Justly regard check TO immigration
check to individual and of to national prosperity
The projected lines of railroad in the of
ructon in various parts of the Union sadly in need
of the patient toll and brawny of the dcspised and
prosecuted aforeigners The tide of immigration which
annually sweeps from the seaboard to the valleys Of the
Ohio and Mississippi has diminished this year such
extent excite apprehension among those who have
been so long and so greatly benefited by these periodical
overfows of industrious and weah-imparting humanity.
From the LIST Of January the 18th of September Of the
present year, tue decrease IN foreign Immigration ~ the
port Of New York alone fully siry per cent? di-
rect loss to that city of several millions of doarsenough
TO pay the whole Of the expenses of her munich
pal government.
1t will do for the eulogis apoogsts of the secret
association to that knownothngism is anything
else but pure unmgaed and btterlyprejudiced pro-
scrption of foreign immigrants especially the Irish
Knownothngism its birth and organization to this
proscpvc spirit IT pervades every lodge it is found in
the national constitution and is engraed upon every char
ter granted by State council 1t Is the anmus of every
editor and orator in the land and without
this powerful stimnlan to the prejudice Of birth and the
bgotry Of religion the order could not survive
instrument, Of harmless mischief for twentyfour hours
is probable that the people of Ireland have heard OF
the Louisville atrocities and have also heard of other natu
rallied citizens being cut and shot down in other American
cities for the crime of being born abroad worhppng
God ia the belief or according to the form of the Roman
Catholic Church II is also quite as probable that they
have heard that knownothngism seeks to revive in Amer
ica those religious which abolished in England
and to deprive all Of The constitutional rights liberties and
privileges OF American citizens who not natives of the
soil and firm believers in the Protestant Church Hearing
and believing all these things not surprised that
know-nothngism should be regarded in Ireland as the
concentration of oil that nolerant proscrptve and
persecutinga that is wicked nsprit and dangerous in
action And regarding it screspect and sefprotec-
ton may be assigned the moving why many
of the people should prefer remaining in country where
their religion least safe from insult and their persons
and property safe from violence.