Litchfield enquirer., 1855-03-29

HIS suggestions arc tempered WIth 2 degree of eandor. and apparent honesty of feeling which I commend although differ essentially with him in regard to the sentiments he has expressed.
 l do not join issue with the writer upon sny assertion which he has made with a view to advocate or defend "Kuow- Nottingham" for too am a WHrc." nor to persuade Wings Or any other class of politicians to embark in this new and mysterious political en- terprise, but simply to consider the question whether true Wigs or true Americans should withhold their aid and sympathy from this order for tke req sons assigned by "A Whig."
 He asserts first that the tendency of the movemene is pro>Slavsry. In sup. port of this p'opo.ilion he assures us that the territories of Kansas and Ne brasks can only be made free Statrs. "by directing thither the foreign emi grafton :o our shores and extending 10 them tho right of suffrage"
 Twenty or thirty thousand Irish or Germans" he continues, taught from childhood 10 regard the holding of slaves with sbhorrence and made to feel that the tolerance of the system in their n'idst must not only depreeials the val ue of labor. but render it disreput.ble, and degrade them socially to an equality with the slave. would be an important element in the proper solution of thi. problem"
 How will this "problem" appear when solved by the aid of those truth. full suggestions, with VI! !icb his argu> ment is prefaced. Says be. The pain ful dsgredation of much of our smi- grant population. and the facility with which corrupt and designing men have 'marshalled this ignoran, and minimizing multitude in successful opposition to great and beneficial schemes of National policy. have justly awakened deep and widely spread indignation"
 With what safety ask does he expect the ark of freedom in Kansas and Ne, braska, surrounded as it must be by Iof y patriotism. poll ical magnanmi,y and refined sentiments 10 be guarded by ,hi, ignorant and minimizing multitude, whom corrupt and designing men with such facility marshal into 6, successful opposisicns to great and beneficial schemes of national policy?
 When they shsll be called upon to procure a State Constitution and the is sue shall be frrsl lom or slavery. who will be the corrupt and designing men ,hcn? Will not Il be those who would stain it's fair features with the hor,id marks of tho "pecu|iar institution. and will not this ignorant and minimizing multitude be mar.halled by those cor. rup, men and thus tho hopes of strug- gling freedom then be crushed at sin, gle blow! But he would hnve these twenty ar thTty thousand Irish and Ge,mans educated from childhood to sbhor this inLumnn insti ution. and trained b full understanding and jast appreciation of all the domestic political and moral considerations that attach themselves to the an,i-slavery feelings, and sentiment. and 30 would could It be don~. and they must be taught thcse doctrines from childhood or else remain in ieaor ,ncs of them forever. But what hencfI can freedom in k.nzu or Ne. brnska hope to receive from thirty ihou. sand Iish thus even? Long ere tho lesson shall have been half lea,nvd ,he question of involuntary ssrviInde or universal freedom will be forever settled, 60 far as these territories ao conccrn.d. Again he adds. "every censrs snow, tha, our ratio of increase exceeds that of the South and consequently gives us greater rrepondsrance of representation in Congress. But we owe this enh.ly to the half million of iorsi sners annually settling among us for the ratio of na,u,- al increase is larger at the South than here. So far then as you enact laws dis> cou'aging immigration. so far you help to timinish this preponderance in the general Government"
 u may be true that the ratio of natur- al increase is larger at tho South than here. but 1 think 1t is too much to claim that the half million of foreigners who anuually land on our shores, settle among us or even in the free States.
 The entire increase of population both native and foreign. in the present flee States during the ten years next prees> ding tho last census. ls5o) was a tri- he over three and . half millions. Now if it is true that the number of foreign emigrants, is half million annually and tba, they settle among us our ine,ea.e would exceed in the period referred to. more than one and half million more than il in fac. was. including as l have said native and foreign increase. Al. lowing then two millions for as.ural in. cresss. and ws have some three millious of foreigners to dispose of in other ports than the free States. and what can We reasonably expect. other than that they have bsen. and still are aiding the inter. ss,s of the slave policy in those States where t abounds