Washington telegraph., 1856-06-04

head could be found who would believe it. il
asserted
That hum6ug has had It's day: it ans.
wered its temporary purpose, and those who
we're gulled by it into the support of anti
American men or principles, are utterly
amazed when they reflect, that so trauspar-
ent 4 falsehood should have misled them for
single moment They haze now learned
wisdom from experience. Meauwhile the
American party has driven from it's ranks
those men whose treachery to It's principles
and purposes, had to some extent lent aid
and eOuntenance to the representation, Of
our open enemies. 1t has presented plat
for OF principles based upon the consti;u-
tIOnal rights of the individual States. the
Fundamental doctrines Of free government.
and the indestruciibility Of the Federal
| Union; and has nominated candidates there
On, whose public acts. even without any 9th
er platform, a60rd the SAres1 ,gulra,atv
hat the Constitution viii be maintained.
the rights of the States protected, and the
principles of free government preserved
under their administration
That the S0nth, with the North, the Mid
die and the West. should uUder such cir
cuuistauces, embrace and cherish Ameri,
cauism, is but the natural consequence Of
the exercise Of sound Judgment and a pro
per discrimination by the people in their
political affairs The evils arising from
iOrelgnl>m aud demagoguisnl are apparent
they are seen AID felt-they are obvious
20 all, and acknowledged By all: and now
that no portion OF the country can realiz,
ar even perceive any shadot0 of danger
from the adoption of the maxim. that Am
erIcans should rule their own country" Ii
| cannot be thought strange if every portion
Ot the Union should come under the ilfiu-
ence of this maxim. Least or all should it
be ih0aght remarkable that the South.
whose influence in the National Councils l.
decennial!y diminished, and Whose domestic
security are seriou-ly threatened by the III
tiax OF countless thousands of- the more de-
graded classes of Europeans. should seek,
promptly and easvestly to, arrest the pro
sress of The evils. which are both leSseniue
Aer relative political power. and jeupardiz-
ing the safety of her domestic institutions
On the contrary. we should regard it q.
strange, we're the South to refuse to adop,
American doctrines. Her only Safefy
from the ultimate destruction of her Decu
Lfaf iistfretS can be found in these doctrines
Let immi grafton continue at its present
pace: fr twenty-five years longer-Iet the
North be increased in population by the
twenty or thirty millions more of foreigners
who IN the next quartar of q century Will
have come to cur shores-let those addition
al millions come to the polls and determine
(as they willy our elections, and how long
will the present constitution remain un-
changed! How long before cur govern
memt would become c0RSoijdateI and the
rights Of the States, If not even their very
boundaries. would become extinct? From
the year 1900 to 1910 the immigration Of
about 1000 in each year In the last ten
years the average has been over 10000
per year! Thirty-four times as many for
eigners come into the country now, each
year as came into it 80 years go! At the
same ratio of progression, about four NIL
Hons Of people viii annually imnigrate
hItheT twenty years from this date!
At this same rate, within six years from
this day, the annual immigration will be
nearly million of persons per year, and
twelve years from this date it would he
nearly two millions per year. Under the
census of 1880, the additional Foreign
REPUTATION, over and above the present
amount of that population. would e1ceed
that Of the tctife popuLqfi0p Of every stare
STATE an tire Union That House of Re
presen'a'ives which will 20 years from now
be in session. will. without question, If such
immigration continues contain three Repre-
sentaives from The free States. against one
from the slave States; and in all human
probability. if this immigration be no;
checked. the Senate itself. 20 years hence.
will number two Senators from free States,
to one from slave States Foreigners, be-
fore that day. viii control every election in
the country. and the present Constitution
will as certainly be changed, in that event,
as the sun will continue to run It's course.
Is il not time for conservative men every
where, at the North as well as at the South,
to look into the probable consequences of
;hiS indiScriminate ani increasing itnmigra-
ton? What though in the last year or two.
slight diminutioD of the ratio of increase
in immigration has been witnessed! This
has resulted from temporary cause, (ihe
European wary and it will be but temporal
ry in duration. But to say nothing Of the
continued ouipourings Of the still pent up
millions in Europe. look for u moment across
the Pacific. aud see tens, aye, hundredS Of
millions of human beings in Asia, vino
have already commenced an exodus. which
if unchecked, will overrun even our vast
possessions bordering en- our magnificent
western ocean. and in less than half a ecu
tury. write the fate Of this now Furnishing
and glorious confederacy of S'a'es in this
short and simple hne-1fuit RespHJlica
dmericana'
4 CURIoUs REASON FOR CoMMITTgNG
SUIcipE-Mr. Elias. workman living Ia
Holmes county. Ohio, committed suicide on