Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-05-25

mites which i, secures Would they be less likely
to be attached 20 the Government and its principles
under the operation of the present system than they
would be under the proposed one, which would treat
them as not much better than outcass or outlaws Z?
All writer's of note, from the earliest to the latest who
have treated upon the elements and component parts
or members of communities and States, have pointed
this out as a source of real danger-that is having
large number of the not only Aliens by
birh but aliens in heart and feeling in the bosom Of
society
Such was, to a great extent, the condition of the
Heots in Greece-men of the same race placed in an
inferior position, and forming within themselves a
degraded class | wish to such state of things
in this country With US at the South it is true we
have degraded caste, but it is OF race fitted by
nature for their subordinate position The negro
with us, fills that place in society and under our sys-
tenn Of civilization for which he was designed by ma
ture. No training fit him for either social or po-
litica equality with his superors at least history
furnishes us with no instance of the kind; does
the negro with US feel any degradation in his posi-
ton because il is his natural place But such would
not be the case with men of the same race and COM
ing from the sam Stale with ourselves And what
appears not little strange and singular 10 me, In
considering this late movement is, that IT 1T did not
originate with, yet it is generally and zeal
ousy favored by so many of those men at the North
who have expended so much Of their misguided phi
lanhropy in behalf of our slaves. They have been
endeavoring for years TO elevate the African 10 an
V,
And now they are moving heaven and earth to de-
grade the achitc man to condition lower than that
held by the negro in the South. The Massachusetts
BODYBUILDING" Legislature passed bill lately 10
amend their Constitutions as 10 exclude from the
polls in that State, hereafter all naturalzed citizens,
from whatever nation they may come and yet they
will allow Y'lnd1rGy negro STAGE from the South the
same right to vote that they give to their own native
born sons They thus exhibit the strange paradox OF
1Uarring against their own race-thelr own blood
even their own kth and kim" it may be, while
thew are vanly and financially endeavorng TO reverse
the order of nature by making the black man equal
TO the white Shall we second them IN any such
movement? Shall we even countenance them so lar
as 10 bear the same nameto say nothing OF Inc same
pledges, ss-words, signs and symbols? Snail we
affiliate and unite ourselves under the same banner
with men whose acts show them to be governed by
such principles, and TO be bent such purpose =
This is question for Southern men to consider -
Others too may do it if they chO Sc; but tell you,
never shall. That you may set down as " liked
fact one Of the fxedest OF the fixed.
am not at all astonished at the rapid spread of
this new sentiment at the North rather new way
of giving embodiment and life to old sentiment,
long cherished by large class of the Northern peo-
pie. notwithstanding the paradox 1t is true ''Know-
Nothingism 81 did not originate as | understand its
origin, with the class | allude to- 1t commenced
with the laborers and dependent upon capital
for work and employment. 1t sprang from the antag
employments, who undertaking them In the
amount of wages. But many capitalists of that sec
ton, the who hold the land and property in their
own hands, wishing to dispense with laborerS and
employees, whose votes at the polls are equal to
their own, seized upon this way of efecting
their old, long-Chershed desire. And the more Gag
ery as they saw that many of the very men whom
they have dreaded the insuperabe obstacle be-
tween them and their purposes, had become the will
ing though unconscious instruments of carrying that
purpose out, which, from the beginning, de-
sire to have rot1ngleSS population to do their
work. and perform all the labor, both in city, town
and country, which capital may require And as
certainly as such law shall be passed, so far from
its checking mmi grafton there will be whole cargoes
of people from other countries brought over, and lit
orally bought up in foreign ports 10 be brought
over in American ships to supply the market for
labor throughout all the free States of the Union
The African Slave Trade. if reopened, would not
hibit spectacle in traficking in human flesh,
than those most deuded men of the North who start
ed this thing, and who are now aiding to accomplish
the end may find they have but kndled fame to
consume themselves The whole substratum of North
ern society will soon be filling up with class who
work, and who, though Unite, cannot Uce. This
is what the would be lords of that section have been
wanting for long time. 1t is a scheme with many
Of them TO get aUhtte Slaues instead of black ones No
American td6orer or man seeking employment there,
who has vote, need to expect to be retained long
when his place can be more cheaply filled by for
signer, who has none This will be the practical
working of the proposed reformation This is the phi
losophy of the thing. 1t is blow at the ballot box.
1t is an nsldious attack upon general suffrage. In a
line with this policy the Know Nothing" Governor
of Connecticut has already recommended the passage
of a law denying the right of votng to all who cannot
read and write. And hence, the great efforts which
are now being made throughout the North to infu-
ence the elections, not only these, but in spending
their money in the publication of books and tracts,
NV lypnT rho,
cast throughout the Southern States to influence
elections here by appealing to the worst passions and
strongest preudices of nature, not emitting those
which bad and wicked men evoke under the
sacred but prosttuted name of religion.
Unfortunately for the country, many evils, which
all good regret and deplOre, exist at this time.
which have a direct tendency wonderfully to aid and
move forward this iIl-omened crusade These relate
to the appointment of so many foreigners, wholly
unfit not only to minor offices at home. but to repre-
sent our country Ministers abroad. And TO the
great frauds and gross abuses which at present at
tend the administration of our naturalization laws
these evils which felt by the whole country,
and they ought to be correCte Not by proscript
of all foreigners, without regard to individual merits.
But, in the first place, by amending the naturali-
cation laws, eectualy to check and prevent these
frauds and abuses And in the second place. to hold
strict accountability at the polls, elections
all those public functonaries who, either with par
tiZan views from whatever motive, thus improper
ly confer Office whether high or low upon undeserv-
ing foreigners, to the exclusion Of native born citi-
zens, better qualified to fill them Another evil now
felt, and which ought to be remedied is the flooding
it is said, of of the cities with paupers ana
criminals from other countries These ought all tc
| be Internationally excluded and prohibited from
coming amongst us--there is reason why We
should be the feeders of other nations paupers, Of
either the keeners or execuoners of their felons-
these evils and ought to be remedied without re-
sorting to an ndlscriminate onslaught upon all who
by industry, enterprise and merit, may choose tc
dynasties of the old world in which they may chance