Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-06-26

ern people, to show that the great counter agent
and enemy of the institution Of slavery is 1MMI-
GRAFTON All Of the old thirteen States, with one
exception, originally held slaves but the better
adaptation of white than slave labor TO northern
latitudes, and the rapid immigration into the Nor
thern States of white laborers from Europe. whose
necessities compelled them TO accept employment
at whatever wages the employer chose 10 offer.
made it the interest Of the citizens Of those
States 10 sell their slaves and substitute hrelipgs
for them The movement was not phanthropic,
but selfish and polite. The slaves were not lib
Grated but sold to Southern purchasers. The
northern owners incurred no sacrifice, but pocket
ed the market values of their slaves, and en-
ployed the means so obtained in securing
efficient and economical species Of labor. For
the opportunity Of doing this, they we're indebted
to supplies of muscle. snew and hungry stom.
achs, furnished from abroad IMMIGRATION, then.
was the destroyer Of slavery in the Northern
States. This would have made but little DIFF.
ference with the slave.holding States, but that
fanatics, demagognes and agitators, seeing in the
competition thus created between slave aud free
labor an opportunity for exciting jealousy and
producing political and sectional animosities out
of which would spring an influence and interest
which they might command for their own sordid
aud selfish ends, began to appeal to the bigotry.
the ignorance and the false sensbities Of the
easily .deluded. until they created party strong
enough to be of use to the politicians, who i'm
mediaiely commenced curryng favor with them
aud counting their support. In this way. the alb
clifton party had their origin and acquired their
early strength. Still, they would have been npo-
tent for mischief but for extraneous help. The
slaveholding states maintained their ascendenoy
in the union Their representatives in congress
outnumbered the representatives Of the hireng
states and their increase in population, by birth.
was more rapid than that Of the Northern States
They held the preponderauce Of power in the
government, and we're more than competent to
their own protection. So the two sections
of the country stood relatively and SO they
would have continued TO stand but for the
one extraneous cause 30 which we have
referred. That cause IMMIGRATION.
The ready employment given in the free States
TO the fugitives from want, oppression and dis.
ease in the old world induced an exodus from Eu-
rope to America uuequalled in history. Teen
lug thousands of tho victims of destitution and
hunger swarmed upon our shores, in search of
labor and bread. A natural instinct led them to
cast their lots where they would not encounter
the competition, or be degraded, as they might
suppose to the level. Of slave labor. Nine out of
ten. probably much larger proportion. settled
imthe free States, or in Territories which they
materially assisted in making free States. From
this never failing source Of increase and strength
the Northern States gradually gained in popula
i II II O.
surpassed them, and now hold them at their mer-
cy. And in proportion as they have grown in
power, aboltiensm has grown in arrogance. recl1.
lessness ard aggressiveness--un driven al
most to the last extremity, the South, as means
of self defence finds itself waitingas it were, the
sig nal to take up arms-and no man can say how
far distant, or how near al hand is the day when
the hills will shake with the commissions of civil
and theriversgrow red with fratricdal blood.
III there were where else in the country n pol
itioan or a citizen who desired to reform our nat.
uralization laws, to regulate immigration, and re
strain the influence of foreigners in the legisla-
ton Of Congress and the administration of tho
government-surely every true friend of the
South--every one who desires to maintain an
equilibrium of the Union as means of protection
poioer to maintain right is worth more than pa
per guarantees or Congressional compromises,
than platforms or pledges-evcry such man should
be found on the side Of those who seek TO adapt
the Legislation of the country to the attainment
of these ends. And yet, by confusion Of morals
or faulty of intellect, unparalleled in the action
oflarge bodies of men, in the whole history of
human transactions, the party that claims to be
par excellence, and exclusively. tho friends aud
champions of Southern interests, the self STYLED
Democratic party, are the advocates and patrons
ofImmigraton and tho Naturalization laws as
they stand, We have been induced to make
these remarks by reading the proceedings of that
convention of public criminals, the Black Re.
pubcaps, who the other day nominated Fremont
for the Presidency. From the reports a. pub
lished in the Herald we make the following ex.
tracts which need no Comment.
Mr.. PHILIP DoResHEIsER first called upon and
introduced to the audience by the chairman as a very
fine looking Duchman. Mr.. Dorscheimer aeknowl-
edged the compliment to his personal appearance and
said that ii nearly forty years since he first
70 this country and he little thought at that time
that in the course of forty years he would be called
to Buffalo to aid in stopping the aggressions of slave
ry. He had belonged to the democratic party
nearly the whole time, and he never dscov-
cred That anything IN the democratic creed sane
toned the extension az slavery If that was in
their creed he found it out. During the forty
years that he had spent among the American people
he had beeu used by them with great kindness and
and he would say to those of his countrymen more
lately come that they need fear nothing here-that
with all their secret societies the would moi
harm them He would not he afraid to 90 into ont
of these secret societies himself but not TO Join one
.(Applause) What was the American character The,
had even made Of him than he wished to be mad,
of But people did not know the German character