Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-04-04

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! United States. They left a few days since for
Havre, with the intention of sailing for New
York.
| Enclosed is an extrac; froma paper which is
published in the same canton, and which fully en-
dorses it. IL says
~ few days since the commune of Niederwyl.
district Zofingen, in the canton of Arravin, sont
three hundred and twenty Of their poorest people
to the United States, iaSPits of all admoai-
tioa.
..Mr G. savs he Ia, written TO our consul at
| Hayre ia ascertain the name of the yessel and to
send 1t on 10 New York. He also It ,tes that an
other large company Of paupers Will soon be ship
| ped for New York
Instances of this kind are occurring weekly
| and have been, for the last twenty years. Our
cities and towns nre rapidly filling mp with this
class OF population, the evils are obvious 10 all
who are not wilfally blind, aud The consequences
cannot fail Ia be deeply and permanently injur-
Gus, to the physical mental. and moral cond
ton of our Well might Thomas Jefferson.
in view of the inevitable consequences of foreign
Immigration and foreign influence upon our de--
TIMES exelaim. II can scarcely withhold myself
from joining in the wish of Silas Deane "thaf
there mere an ocean OF FIRE beticeen THIS and thr
Old HoHd."
Some twenty years ago, the celebrated Capt
Marryatt, of the British navy, visited the United
States. He made tour throughout the country
WISHING every portion ~ IL, anu ftHihfklnE upon
our condition, SOC a and political. as people
Even though an Englishnan, in the service of the
British Crown, and not disposed TO censure his
own government he couldn not forbear, in view of
the scenes he had himself witnessed, to cXclaim,
"Uhdt odrgoeS Of crime, folly. and reckitssneSs,
do are yearly ship of 10 4mcrica"
About twenty years have elapsed, since Cap.
tain Marryat made this candid admission against
his own countrymen. The evils have quadruped
.;nao bnt 1ov A FIN - b,r
prisons and almshouses, and shipping hither tho
scum of her population and Americans, aye A
merlcans, are found who denounce all opposition
to such immigration
Gradually, but surely, ARE those classes of new
born American citizens working their way into
the interior of the country, South and Southwest.
as well as North and West. by far the greater
portion of them remain north of Mason and Dix
on's line. The northern aud western States arr
more cursed by their presence in their midst, than
the South; bm hour stands the SDuth,on the score
ofactuai imminent, certain danger from The pc
Micdi potrer and influence Of The mhoie foreign
population!
l. there, or is there not,a fixed aud unalterable
antagonlsm of opinion, universally prevailing be-
tween the whole IRISH population, and southern
slave holders As n mass, are not the European
immigrants opposed to the institution OF slavery
When half II million of immigrants are annual y
thrown into the country ut the present day, wit h
n prospective increase which will reach million
of souls per annum within ten years ARE the Sou,h
to be told that they need have no fears from thi
immigration
With annual immigration equal to the who g
population of Louisiana, aud more than TINT of
Mchgan.-a number sufficient to form n larg
State. and with u prospective increase whie h
would. within ten years, make in the aggregai G
twelve fifteen such States, what would ba tEo
condition of the South oven under the census of
1S6Dl Would they not be III hopeless minor
ty And what might be the fate of their pecueT
institutions under the census Of 1870! Beto"e
that yedr, if the tide of Immigration should corr
tinnc To- increase. without check the foreign pO >
uiafioR oouid under the prospective increased ra-
ito, equal the native population isnot the whole
country, and the South more especially. interest
ed deeply interested, in checking immigration
and in excluding all future immigrants from the pc
lis
This in the 'American'' policy this is the pur
pose of the american party"-whilst those who
oppose are for opening wide the doors to all the
world, and even admitting Foreigners al once TO
the polls, upon their taking the oath Of allegiance.
This monstrous proposition comes from the pres
ent leader of the Anti Know Nothing forces in
Virginia, the Hon. Henry A. Wise Are the South
prepni cd to abolish the present term of probation
for foreigners, and OF admitting them at once to
the polls! We repeat, such is the proposition
contained in Mr.. Wiso's manifesto of September
1891, as published in the Richmond En-
quirer of October 81, 1904. We refer read.
to the last column Of the manifesto. and lest
we may be charged with garbng tho paragraph,
we published il entire.
In answering for party, the question which
he propounds. what are tho evils complained
off, &c, Mr.. Wise says:
''2nd. Both parties have violated tho election
laws and laws of naturalization, in rushing green
obi t,,t l,a H.
to VOC.
"This, again. is the fault of both parties -.
And this is contiGed chiefly if not entirely to the
cities Ii don't reach to the ballot boxes of the
country at large and is not drop in the ocean Of
our political influence. In Now York, Phiudel-
phia, Baltimore, Cincinnati and New Orleans,
the abuse, yentuo to say, don't number, in fact,
500 votes. 1t is nothing everywhere else in a
country of universal suffrage and of 20 millions
| of free people. And would perjury and fraud in
! the elections be arrested by the attempt 10 ex-
oude Catholics and foreigners by birth from of
flee : or by extending the limitation of time for
naturalization or, by repeating the naturali2a-
ton laws ? Either of these remedies for the err
ror would multiply the perjuries and the frauds
and the foreign votes. Then there would be n
pretext for obtaining by fraud and force whit is
denied under law. BY making naturalization
rather TO foioir Immediately upon the oath Of al
iegiance and that to depend on the ,riH and h,
good character Of the applicants fraud and per
jury ,eouid rather be stripped Of their preterts
The foreigners trouid be at once eraited in Their
self respect and dignity Of department, right
,couid enable them TO exercise the etectre franchise
in peace, and the cputry ,conid escape the demo
raiization resulting from rioiaiion Of the lars
and from The means employed to set at nonght
Their force and Effect
The above is Mr.. Wises language; the italics
are ours. Without stopping to refute his posi-