Southern shield., 1855-10-20

to encounter great dangers is not only
 Holly, 1t is sin. You remember when
 the Devil took our Saviour to the high
 est pinnacle of the temple, and said:
 ''If thou be the Son of God, cast
 thyself down, for it is written he shall
 give his angels charge concerning thee;
 land in the.r hands they shall bear thee
 up lest at any time thou dash thy foot
 against stone."
 "Jesus said unto him, it is written
 again, thou shall not tempt the Lord ) thy God" The lesscn applies not to individuals
 merely, but to Nations as we'll. With
 the facts before us-with the figures staring us in the face-with the char acter of thepopulation coming among
 us known and published, it is just as
 much tempting of Providence to fold : our arms in sluggish inaction, as it would be to eap from the pinnacle of
 the Temple.
 } To understand the character of the f population-o learn what grievous burden it his become-to ascertain
 what amountof crime, vice, destitu- ton and msery they have brought among us, we have only to look to the official statistics in the single city of New York. We find 42, ,369 Foreign paupers and invalids, 2,381 Lunatics, and 22,229 Criminals shedding their
 malignant influence over our great com mercial emporium. Nor is the pro-
 portion greater there than elsewhere. 2 It is no, so great as in Alabama, A ! few yeas ago there were in our State
 Penitendary IT Convicts, and of these - 96 were of foreign birth. The same : deadly malaria exhales from every spot d of ground they tread-while law, so- - cial order, and religious purity alike : bleed at their approach.
 |, But turn from a record which has n so little to attract--so much to repel, d to refer again to the opinions of the e Patriots who have gone before us. y Alex. Hamilton, who has been so often g pointed to by the antiAmericans with : exultation as a Foreigner, said, that, : tone of the weakest sides of Republics d was their being liable to foreign inAu- | ences and corrupdon." Pierce But e Ter of South Carolina, who had been a u Major in the British Army before the # Revolution, in speaking of Foreigners, n declared they bring with them not only e attachments to otler countries, but ide- e as of government so distinct from ours 1t that in every point of view they are dan > gerous." Charles Pinckney, Edmund h Randolph, and George Mason agreed v with him. Eldridge Gerry, who was 1t elected Vice President on the same n ticket with Madison, said, in reference le to seats in Congress: "IIe wished ir re future that eligibility might be con n fined to Natives" And Gen. Jack 1t son in his Coleman letter emphatically l. declared that it was "time we were be- s, coming a little more Americanised.' Tt If other ant 1dttt 4s, nGG954d fl t Tngg ggnTl wifi > not suffice, 10 array of names could . produce convection. Indeed this Is a '' kind of argument I should not have e employed, if i, had not been resorted to IS by others. Iprefer relying upon the 'r plain undeniaile fact that about 400, V | 900 ignorant, nnlettered, criminal and $ degraded strangers are yearly settling y upon our land. It requires no great n strength of intellect to comprehend , or portray the results which are certain : to follow. Ire Locusts of Egypt on- u ly destroyed tie vegetation-these not e only eat up tn, substance, but poison Il the morals of cur people.
 5 You admit tat so far as the Amer Il ican Platform goes upon the subject of e Slavery it meds your appreciation, but U add that 1t does not go far enough. g Is this censur( merited? Do you not e know that it gCes further than any oth- CT party will dare to go? You say s that there nWer was time when v the ascendeng of the Democratic X party was mole important than the present, and allure us all to gath l CT around that ptten fabric. l take it for granted therefore that you regard l the Slavery issw unimportant, because s you know, as we'll as you know the ! number of fingers on your hand, that l no Convention sf that party ever will ? deny the Constitutional power of Con- gress over the Territories. Not one ) prominent man, besides yourself, north ! of Mason < Di;on's line, will publish ) such opinions. And with what justice can you expect IS to do what you never entertained fope your party would do? It would be delightful spectacle ] to see Douglass running for the Presi-
 dency upon a platform which denied
 the power of Congress over the subject
 of Slavery ir the Territories. You
 and l heard him on the floor of the
 Senate pronounce the Wilmot proviso
 Constitutional, and announce his pur-
 pose to vote for 1t under the instructions
 of his Legislature. Marcy would look
 equally we'll after his invention of the
 brand nonoooo oe rcNoprNr +bo o,.L.