The Empire County argus., 1855-11-10

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whole North-is to circumscribe the area and thus
destroy the institution of slavery, it well becomes
southerners to investigate the of the power
by which she is working out this result.
"In addressing ourselves to this inquiry we look
in vain for any natural cause for this great North
ern preponderance of power--we look in vain for
any reason in nature why the population of the
North should be greater than ours--so much 50 as
to enable her to send forth colonies from hel re-
dundant population to people new States. But by
reference to our census reports we find that about
half million foreigners come annually to our
shores and seek homes in the North as naturally as
like hegets like. Deriving their information in the
old world of the new principally through Northern
channels they come here with preiudices already
deep seated in their mind against the institutions Of
the principally on account of the great
Northern idea they have already imbibed that sla
very comes in competition WITH and degrades white
labor. With these feelings toward the institutions
of the South, they generally seek some Northern
port where they possess themselves of outfits, to-
gether with plenty of advice from land mongers and
Aboltionsts as to where they could best settle and
establish themselves. Hence the great Northwest
in whose lands New York was and is largely inter-
esed, is thickly settled by foreigners that they
are in a majority in many places.
'Wth these facts staring us in the face, we are
forced irresstibly to the conclusion that this for
eign emigration is the main source of the power
ueStneu 10 De Wleiueu 10 tne destruction OF SOUth-
ern interests. 1t is unimportant to us whether
these emigrants vote the Whig Free Soil, or Dem
ocratic ticket at the North in what part of that
region they settle. But it is sufficient for us to
known that the North absorbes q large portion of
this foreign population. That it goes to swell the
measure of her powor, and lengthen the shadow of
her States, finging it even now from the Atlantic
upon the tranquil bosom Of the great sea of Balboa.
1t is sufficient for us to know that these foreigners
60 to swell the influence of the North as section,
which already extends from Ocean to Ocean, with
millions of outlets through which it is borne South
We say this should be sufficient to awaken the
jealousy of the South, and cause her to make an ef
fort TO lay the at the root Of this tree of eu, for
this half million of foreigners, added to the natural
increase of the North, arM assuredy enable her TO
hedge as in as Nth waH Of fire, and smother out
slavery forerer."
In this work of crushing the South the Pierce
Democracy of this State is engaged, as witness
their great zeal in soliciting Foreign votes, and
their activity in manufacturing them The double
faced traitors at the same time bawling abolition to
the top of their lungs, at the American party.
The Eagle continues:
"Demagogues need not tell us that Americanism
has abolition afinities--that Know Nothingsm is
popular at the North-this all amounts to nothing.
If the secret feature there has been subsidized to
the unhoy purpose of electing Abotionsts to
high places, it argues nothing against Americansm
as developed in the Philadelphia platform.
"But let us back to the enquiry Is this annual
infur of half million of foreigners compatible with
the eristence Of African Slavery in the South?
"The great anchor of hope for large portion Of
the Anti-Slavery men appears to lie in this foreign
emigration"
On this point the reader will please see the ex-
tracts above from Ex-Governor Seymour's speech,
and remember that the Post Master of N. Y. city,
the Naval Officer, Surveyor of the PORT and Capt.
Rynders, Deputy Surveyor of the Port, and Presi-
dent of the Empire Club, were all seated on the
platform while the Ex-Governor was speaking
These gentlemen are all appointees of the Pierce
Administration and Democrats par excellence
The Eagle adds:
They argue upon sound principles of political
economy that this large increase of foreign labor
ers will eventually bring about such compensation
in labor that it will become cheap as to dispense
with slave labor account of its expensiveness
that the strength of slavery lies in its privilege of
expansion; that this emigration will hinder this by
of its occupying the outlets of slavery that
the necessities of the superior would the
inferior law to give way by certain a law as that
the stronger force would repel the weaker.
"And certain it is that It there WaS the number of
there is IN Massachusetts,, african slavery could not
ertSt here as 1t does noU.
"That this influx of half million of foreigners
per annum will revoutionize society in the South is
evident. Let us contemplate, for a moment, that
this emigration is sufficient to settle State every
year with the population of Mississippi--that this
is nearly all added to the North, which is ant-Sla-
uery--that this forms an addition to her natural
!ncrease--that the population of the North, in
many places, is already dense that it finds egress
south, thus increasing the population of whites to
the blacks-and we can form some idea of this en-
gorgement of America with elements inimical to
the institutions of the South.
sit is idle to talk about the conservatism of these
foreigners; the desolate fields of Jamaica and Mar
Unique attest too strongly that political abolionism
itself is foreign exotic which fanaticsism is en-
deavoring to transplant to our political Eden"
The candid reader will see that free soilism is
the principal element of Northern Democracy, es-
pecially of that branch endorsed by the Admins
tration, and that foreign emigration is seized upon
by Pierce, Douglass, Seymour Seward & Co., as an
engine to promote it. The very arguments en-
ployed by Ex-Governor Seymour to beautify the
Bogus Democracy of this day, are anticipated by
the Memphis Eagle, and the South, and justly SO.
as inimical to Southern institutions Who is pre-
pared to say that the Eagle is not correct in its
declarations If any let him stand forth. The
stop thief cry of Abolition, raised against the
American Party, is only an impudent shift of dem
agogues to disguise their own schemes of disdain