New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-06
NUMBER 14o.
Hon. n. W. Gufon, of North Carolina.

Hon. p. W. Gufon, of Eor,h Carolina. 81
Wetaks pleasure in laying before our reader.
the follcving sensible view or the American side
ol Inc question nov before the country, and
so'nnena 10 TO their cafefnlperueal:
= .aH fgrom In. se.isBuay watehuaan
| LETTER FROM q. W. aUfoN. ESQ q
| .,r LINcoLsroN, July IL, 1855,
.Hessrs. Edttoys1-Bnsolicited nv mo w,
have for several weeks past given is nv rasae
conspicuous position in your paper al i ,Sand;.
date for Congress m this district While ID an.
preeiate your Kind aad fattering intentions.
anu tsnaer you, thanks therefor. yet, as l am
apprehepsise that mys true position amav be
miseonceived and my silence Condemned by
those whose esteem desire ever to retain 1
beg leave to request that my name may be With
drawn from public notice; or, it, atiH retained
BY you, that 1t may be accompanied by an
explanation OF he,position really occupy
Although not q politician by trade, Il has
ever been my praetice to give to every pnbhc
question o calm, thorough and impartial con
|sideratlon. After. giving to the issues now
ag1sated through our country an earnest ex.
animation, ind myself fully and warmly CON.
mitted 70 the newly formed s.American party .
and am un willing, therefore, ,fh stmy name ma Y
ee considered, By Any epe, sas nsei aftagnnisti-
sally to the esHccess of Coh ssoFe,s the american
9 c.ndidate. For him shall cast my vote and
exsrt what little infneneeI possess st
Po'shew my sincerity in adopting the Arneri
can principles, Z will take only what I consider
4 single. branch of the Soatseyn view of Ii !
suhjeet ornlttirg O. lothers for want OF lei istire
Juss 90 W. believing that ttis view alone stpuld
be sufficient With the entire South to produce a
unanfnnfy OF feeling apdsentiment.
From the abstract the census page 1s t tb,
~ she year 1890 the population Of She Northern ssts
And 81 ts southern States tsSsa ~, ~.
ne Nefth and south being then rssriy equal a sssi
issras IL .ns syss 1850 the Nosthsrn stsies had
Aaa ths Southern only 10. s.....s sSessss
! So ..s. ~ = 49, - - . = 4,s4a a4os
y 1t appears then, that in the short space sots
sixty years, the Northern States have far 6nt-
stripped the aSout6ern in the increase Of he pona
ulatren; and thislfact appears the more etriks
ing, when the same census report establisbes:
that the natires of the South have increased
more. largely thanethe ssafises Of the Nortl, $
Whence comes this increase then Of the North
over athessouth r The question is answered on
page 1888 ofsaid report, as follows Total hun-
ber of immigrants into the United States since.
1850, living in 1850 with descendaats of ifarni >
grants, 3n4 s4i6.''' Here then is proof posis
tive as to theaourcesof this increase; and nos
for its Consequences as to the Sontherf States.
In the First Congress, the North bad IS members
ihe oouth had ~. ....... 80 80
Being then ouiy iiGsrepossof. -, 81 .Isss
In the representation in Congress under the census G
185o--see report page 160-$ = - 4
The North 144 members
ihe eouth on'y 80. .4c.....-a.... 90
So it appears, that since 1890, the South has
io lost ~ members IN the House Of Representa-
stiyes alone, saying nothing OF the Senate. This
loss, then, is clearly attributable to the immi.s
grants and their descendants, living in 1850
and enumerated in the census returns for that
year; and it should be remembered, that toin-
crease the delegation of any State it is not me
cessary that the inhabitants thereof should, be
naturaiized or entitled to. vote But that on
the contrary, all are enumerated, whether
men, women or children, end that according to-
lportioned between the several States.
/ Now, should the Stream of itainlig ration be
permitted to flow, as prior 10 1850, Who ia so
dull as not to perceive, that before the prssent
generation shall have passed away, the South
Will aud must necessarily lose another SO mem
bers in Congress, giving the North amajority Of
at least 10O+over us IN the popular branch
hurnbling the South into the pitiiul attitude of
sa suppliant for Northern faVors or Northern
MERCY There is no law more constant than
that that Of g cause and effect,'' % and if immi-
grafton. the cause, be permitted to continue
the effect, Southern degradation, is sure to fol-
low.
= As the American party proposes. to remove
the scause-to stop the torrent Of Immigration
I, tor one. will say, God speed the good work,
and will give to it every aid + can command
But again, whom do the 40 members in Con
gress represent? Not Americans certainly or
some Americans must have two Representa-
tives, which cannot be- They clearly represent
those ratios Of foreigners for whom they were
apportioneds And when we consider the hetero.
genecus mass Of this foreign element III society,
we should not be surprised to find in their Re-
presentatives so much recklessness, corruption
and blackguardism as are continually exhibited
in our Congress. The only remedy for this dis.
ease is the removal of its causes which is one Of
the objects of the American party. 1t often is
argued before the people, that the. number of
foreigners within our country is too small and
Insignificant to incite them to action against
them, and this point Is always vehemently
pressed. independent of the fact that they are
already SO numerous as to cause the old line
parry leaders and office seekers assidiously to
strive with each other to secure their favor, and
that BY means not the most yirtuous !. and In
dependent of the further fact that we have
strong reasons to believe that the Presidencysof
the United States has already been put upsat
public auction, and sold TO the highest bidder
by the General commanding The foreign votesin
.Amerieat say, Independent of these facts
the census report showing that the foreigners.
andstheir descendants IN 1850, being A OIL 1923,
is more than sufficient to eonnterbalance the
federal population OF the following nine South
ern States, viz: North Carolina, South Harolina,
Georgia, Alabama Mississippi, Louisiana,
Florida, Arkansas and Ttxas, the aggregate of
their federal population being only 40Io ,GS4,
thus, as it were offsetting and stifling evoice
and Influence of nine Southern Sfatess--
European represen tation checking the Southern
voice The evil to the South is already great,
and overwhelming, ruin only Fingers for q sea-
sou.
How can southerners thus run after false
gods, deerying the party that isas pre- eminenbly
Southern Why quit their own to standson
foreign ground The love and thirst for place
seems to be greater, in this metallic age, than
the love of country. = '.ss-s 07'sss
; Ifthe American party shall compass its pur-
poses and entirely toff all foreign emigratipn,
even then ths evils will be great enough at the
close Of the Revolution in $780, the population
Of the United States was nearly four millions,
and in 1860 had increased five fold, to tweaty
millions. Inaanother period of sixty years, the
American population, by like ratio OF increase,
must exceed sone hundred millions Of native
Americans. The foreigners, with the increase
since 1850 being in 1856, 6. Hos ,4l6-must then
sbe thirty millions, anurnber 50per cent greater
than the present entire population Of the United
States. So
Tho Stetess md ,,bl;,. larde IN, a, for, -. -.