Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05


zeal question of high Importance. The North
has already ffty-fve more representatives
than the South. The natural increase of the
South is one-third greater than the North, be-
cause there are greater checks on population
there but the artificial element of foreignism
brings 10000 who settle annually in the free
States, with instincts against slavery, making
90 Representatives in ten years to swell the
opposition to the South. To stop this enor-
nous disproportion, what is our policy? What
is the frightful prospect before us? The effect
of Know Nothingism is to turn back the tide
of immigration. and our highest duty to the
South is to discourage immigration. dep
recate it as a great calamity"
CARRIER, the editor of the Madison Courier,
and prince of Know Nothings in Indiana,
commenting upon the above remarks of Gov
ernor Smith, saws :
1--WE Know that the party We acted with
last fall, and which triumphed in Indiana, was
ont and out anti i-slaUery, and in favor of a
Prohibitory Liquor Law. Without these ele-
ements, success would have been impossible. II
Know Nothingism is truthfully portrayed by
Gov. Smith, the insiders have grossly deceived
the outsiders in Indiana, and the whole fabric
must fall-become the scom of all good men,
The indianapolis Daily Journal of the 22d
inst. speaks by authority, and saws:
In Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa, as in this
State, Ohio, New Hampshire and some other
States, there was cooperation of Know Moth
ings and other opponents of slavery extension
and drunkard making, and that the result i:
not Hna ayolnoiualx m of .ho al.
ments of the Fusion but if in either State
the Know Nothing vote had been withheld
from the Republican candidates, they 'could
haze been defeated"
The editor Of the Louisville Journal, speak
ing OF the first fruits of Know Nothing Flu
sionism in some oi the free States, says:
BY means Of the clap-trap machinery o
Abolitionism, good men are deluded into po
! litical notification for the laws of Massa
chusetts Wisconsin and Michigan, are NOR,
efficient and dangerous modes of carrying on
notification than were the conventions an(
.proclamations of South Carolina A Ions
continued persistence in such legislation vii
so weaken the bonds of Union that dissolu
ton will inevitably follow"
This is the present language of Southern
statesmen, not at all given to braggadocio. i
view of recent Northern Fusion legislation i
several of the States. 1t is far more ominou
) than the rant and fustian of by-gone year
The men of the South now say, calmly an
dispassionately love the Union-the
love our country, withits glorious recollection
: both i'm the North and the South-they wi
suffer long and much before they will act
but there is point beyond which they wi
: not suffer encroachments on their ConstitI
tional rights, and that point seems to be ha
tcning by the Fusion legislation of Connect
j. cut Michigan, Massachusetts,, Wisconsin al
5 other States When they can no lsnger el
e dure, they will quietly and peacefully cece(
e from the Union, and the question may be pr
$ sented, where will the West go, in such C
$ tastrophe ? The Fusionists of course will S;
3 they will follow Massachusetts, and Co
D, necticut in their crusade against the instit
h tons of the South. | think the West W
d come to the rescue of the American Cons
tuition, and, by doing justice to all parties, f
ever prevent separation of the Union. v
have the power and we should exercieit. v
have the men, if need I've, upon whom t
true men of the North and the South C
10 unite, and with union in the West our il
arms will b;ud our country together in bor
that can never be broken.
GO The indianapolis Daily Journal of the
A. inst, in commenting upon the article abo
quoted from the Louisville journal, says: