Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-14

efs who are being, and especially at the approach
OF our election rapidly incorporated among u.s.
Kelly TO be animated BY this salutary fitted
% Ne the guardians Of our free institutions i
roul, be very solry 10 deny that among these EN-
igrsnts there are some worthy men, who. when
Gmiliayiz VI to our institutions by long residence
anono NJ way become good citizens and capable
~ nsstieoat,' Sg in our privileges but no candid
man will deny that large proportion are Of a
very different character, consisting for the most
part of Red Repub (cans, or anarchists, criminals,
and paupers--or win venture, when dismonnted
from die stump, calmly 10 assert that five years
residence here will qualify an ignorant foreigner
thoroughly to understand our institutions and 10y
sIly ~ Conform 10 them. Thenlet il be remembered
thai each one of these who il admitted to the
exercise of the elective franchise, without being
thus qualified, and who Is, consequently, liable TO
be led astray by the article of the demagogue, or
eoerced by the threatened anathema Of his priest,
annuls the vote of one citizen, may, in fact, ex-
punge your vote or mine Then consider the mum
Der and character of the people who are annually
east upon our shores. do not mean TO trouble
YOU with statistics. j dare say the records have
been ransacked by opposing candidates for your
favor, aud that the results are familiar to you.
take from the papers of the day those TO which
refer--uncontradicted statements.
Bear in mind, then, the fact that foreign inn
migration, which, up TO the year eighteen hun
dred did not exceed five thousand persons has
Iisen since eighteen hundred and fifty, 10 half
million, and which, looking to the state OF Europe,
will probably, and in very short time, mount up
TO million year. Now give free scope to your
benevolent feelings--cxercise the most extended
charity in estimating the probable number of these
who are worthy men--capable by proper proDa-
tionary term, of being rendered good citizens
and what fearful residuum will remain--what
mass of poisonous ingredients to be infused into
the body polite The census of 1850 shows that
the number OF foreign paupers and criminals ex-
ceeded that Of native paupers and criminals, al
though The native population was sepe'. t0aes
greater than the foreign What would be your
feelings II poverty and crime existed in this pro-
portion, and to this extent among yourseyess II
the quantum Of pauperism and vice which existed
among you, was the proportion Of population
seven times greater In number than your own,
what security would you have for your free insti-
tutionss What guarantee for your individual
rights!
Consider, also, that these emigrants, stunning
the South, from their unwillingness to compete
with slave labor--and aocking to the North, from
their abolition tendencies, in search OF kindred
spirits, are thus rapidly increasing the majority
against you in Congress, at every apportionment,
and will, unless checked, in no very great length
of time place the constitution and the institutions
Of the South at the mercy of fanaticism.
And how are these calamities to be averted, if
this horde Of foreigners, rapidly increasing, is to
be annually added to your society," The plaques
of Egypt were mercies, since they were guided by
Divine benevolence, and stayed by His omnipo-
tence, when the delve~nce Of His chosen people
was effected. But who shall stay this moral pest-
lence if you are insensible to your danger? Ii
perseyered In In what can it eyentuate but in the
ruin Of the Republicg Can the noble system of
government, established by your fathers, be adj
ministered by men like these 7
You arc told that your numbers, 80 largely ex-
coed that of the foreign population that all appre-
tensions ofdanger is idle. | do not mean to give
offence to any man. but TO speak in the sincerity Of
my heart when / say that such IN argument seems
to me to estimate very humbly the understandings
Of those 70 whom it is addressed In the open,
manly defence of your rights and libertiesof that
glorious constitution bequeated to you by your
fathers, Of your homesteads and your household-in
the defence Of these against open and manly assault
you are competent to resist not only the foreigners
| among US, but world in arms. God forbid that
one American bosom should palpitate with craven
fear, in view OF such conflict. But, this Ia not
the danger which menaces. Every man, unworthy
of citizenship, who is admitted to its privileges is
! an enemy in your eamp-a moral leper, spreading
contagion Ear and wide. The morals Of the COM
munity are corrupted-its heart is tainted by such
association; for, however stained with crime, the
stamp Of citizens makes them politically part Of
yourselves. Can you bear the amalgamation?y
TO BE CONCLUDED TOMORROW.