The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1855-09-21
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Letter from the
Hon. JERE. CLEMENS.
EcoNoLUDED FROM LAST wEEK.1

order OF hnow NothingS that 1t ogriuated at
the North. and ought therefore to be regar-
ded with suspicioh by the South, by this
reason havo seens advanced and such men
as Toonibs ahd Stephens Of Georgia, aud
Preston Of Kentucky gentlemen whom /
personally anil for whose talents attain
ments and moral worth I have very great.
respect. To my mind it is an evidence of
the weakness of any cause when men flair
abilities resort to such fi,nsy means to sup.
port it. donot know how the fact is, but
l shall concede that it did originate i'm New
York, and then shall proceed to show there
Is no spot upon the continent where the peo-
pie have suffered more from foreign emigraN
ton, or where they have more imnerious
reasons for arraying themselves against IT.
by reference to the annual report of the
Governors of the Aims House, | find that
there were in the New York Aims House
during the year 1868, 219S inmates-of
these only $50 were natives, and le63 for
eigners, supported at the expense ofihe City.
And>now propose to use on our side the
argument of our opponents that there are on
ly 3,00o,o 600 foreigners to 20 ,ooo, 900 natives.
According to that ratio there ought to be
about natives to one foreigner in the Aims
eigners to one native. No wonder that n
people who are taxed to support such body
of paupers should be the first to set about
devising means to get rid Of them. Let us
pursue the record lin Bellevue Hospital, in
the same city, there were 702 Americans
4l34 foreigners; now the proportion rises to
nearly six TO one. There of out door poor
| that Is persons who had some place to
sleep, bat nothing to eat and nothing to
make tire-957 native adults, and 1914
children-313l foreign adults. and 1929 for.
feign children, or children born of foreign
parents. This narEfer were relieved during
the year with money. OF those relieved
with fuel, there were l249 adult Americans
and 1901 children, 1885 adult foreigners
and 1887 children.
But the record is not vet complete--Iet us
turn to the statistics of crime. In the city
prisons there were during the year 6,lO2
Americans -22, ,228 foreigners pass on
to an abode even more gloomy than that of
the prison cell, and call your attention to
those whom God in his wisdom has seen fit
TO deprive Of the light of reason. In the lu-
natic asylum there were admitted from the
year 1877 to, 1858 779 Americans, 2Ssi
foreigners. For the year 1853, there were
"a Americans 393 foreigners. These Ia.
bles might be made more complete by ad.
ding organ grinders. strolling mendicants,
and professional beggars. but Of these have
no reliable data, and therefore pass them
with the single remark that have never
seer native American who belonged to Ell
ther class. These figures are far more ex
elusive than any lauguage could beto prove
the necessity of arresting the tide of emigra-
ton. Let every Americans impress them
deeply upon his memory, 42,369 foreign
paupers and insalids, 1881 lunatics, and 90,
22a criminals taxing the industry, anl
bHghtuing the prosperity Of single city
In that list Of crimes is embraced murder,
rape, arson, robbery, perjury, everything
which is damning to the character Of the
individual, and everything which is danger
ous to society. In our section we zee bot
little Of the evils OF, inigration---co
| ly few come among us, and those are gener-
| ally of the best classes Of the countryinen.-
II is not az a-State shat we suffer most, but
~ an inuegral part Of the Republic
The crime, vice, disease destitutionandb beg
gary which flows in witlrevery tide of emf.
grafton af1icts us but little il is through
thcH IDibicfb dctiO!b, III ubeT citittlLy OF YO-
ters, that tho curse extends itself To u.s.
When thousands upon thousands are carried
to The polls and made to vote in fsvor Of
any man, or any pate for 3 shilling, es,r-
rupting the ballot box, pnd rendering liberty
Insecure then we sufer--;hen the law of
selfpreservation gives US right, and makes
IL q duty to interpose.
With such dangers thickening around us,
the memorable order of Gen. washinnton
should be upon every mans lips: "Pm
none upon but Americans on guard to night" !"
In time of peace your public officers are
your sentinels. Put none on guard whose
bosom do,not swell with exulling pride at
the mention Of Bunker Hill, of Monmouth
or Saratoga, or of Yorktown. Put none on
guard whose national tradinons are not CON
fined to our own commonwealth. Put none
on guard who can dwell by the hour upon
the eloquence ofDanicl O'Connell, but have
never hear the name o. Patrick Henry---
Put none otsEuard who turn with cold in,lif-
ference from the story Of Niagara. or New
Orleans, to boast Of Marengo, or Leipsic. or
Waterloo. They do NOT Iove yeW land as
lzou ,lo--thev win not watch over Il wi,hthe
Issmes absorbing interest,". Oppression. not