Washington telegraph., 1856-07-30

devlllsh policy OF FOREIGN ho"ANi0"
to sow the seeds of civil discord, to brew
intestine strife, to evoke the elements OF
treason and discord that storm of fanatl-
cism may sweep over the land; erase the
record of the past and leave the dlsmemoered
fragments of glorious Union to be bound
in the thrall of an internal despotlsm.
Do we not see convention OF the editors
of German free presses representing read
ing, voting public of nearly one hundred
thousand foreigners assembling together,
and declaring their intention to vote for
Fremont because their vile schemes find
in him coadjutor? We do see this.
Do we not see the whole foreign population
of the North arraying themselves under
the black banner of this new-fangled foe
to the quiet of the States, the harmony
of the Union, Black Republicanism? We
do see it. Do we not hear of the organi-
zation of Fremont party among the Ger
man population of Western Texas? We
do hear of this. And do not men who
look at the subject calmly and dispassion-
ately see the foreshadowings of the conflict
which must arise when these same Ger
man Texans apply for partition of that
State and their admission into the Union
as separate member of the confederacy
as free State free State we say, bor-
| Il ha
do see it-they must see it Do not all
things point to concentration of this
foreign vote upon the one idea of the op-
position of the foreign population to the
exercise of the inalienable rights of the
Southern people? This question cannot
be answered in the negative. And hence
1t Is that the American party are arrayed
against this tremendous power-this over
weening influence Hence it is that they
desire as patriots, as lovers of their coun-
try to check the growth of this power and
influence BY the exercise of legitimate
| means. Hence, too, it is that We are led
to the belief that our friend Dr. Mitchell
will, when party prejudices and asperities
have been calmed down and the necessities
Of the case carefully examined into,
be found doing battle for those interests
which we are confident he has as much at
heart as the truest American in the land.
1t cannot be otherwise But confined as
we are by our space We must drop this
point Of the Doctors reply to Col. F.,
but we ask our readers to ponder this
matter well, and present it to their friends
in the proper Highland ask them how
they will choose between Col. Warren the
advocate of the unrestrained growth of the
most dangerous element of Abolitionism
for he stands committed as such and we
challenge the proof to the contrary-and
Col. Fowler the patriot-the statesman
who seeing the dangers which encompass
us has arrayed himself against them and
declared his intention to war against this
curse, this overshadowing evil?
But We pass to the notice of the most
prominent remaining point in Dr. Ms
reply and then we must reluctantly leave
: him, fer referring to our notes we find hi:
: speech so full of salient points that VIZ
: could not ask an easier task than to refutt
his positions.
| DIR. NJ, in the face of the record OF
the facts, and of Mr. Buchanan's letter
of acceptance. contended for the sound
ness of the Cincinnati Platform and the
candidate of the Cincinnati Convention
on the great question of the day. Now
the proof of the rottenness of the planhs
: of the Platform, and the unsoundness oi
; the candidate, are self-evident and abun
dant And it does seem as if it were ne
cessary to refer only to one particular con
nected with this matter, to prove how en-
tirely untenable is the position assumed
by the advocates of this platform and its
, candidates. Here we have in June 1856
, the Cincinnati Convention endorsing the
Kansas-Neb bill, its nature, near
, ing and provisions. One of the provis-
, ions of that bill gave the unnaturalized
, foreigner the right to exercise the privile
ges of an American citizen, upon cOmpli
1 ance with slight, and, too often in sucl
, cases, an unmeaning form. Against this
prostitution OF the franchise and its inev
r liable results, the American party arrayet
themselves-and the most imminent dan
ger which threatened to result from thu
| passage of this act, was the gradual bu
certain decentralization of all slave terri
, tory by Gordon Of free States, which
'coutd be made free By the operation O
the influence Of the. foreign rotc, upon til,
; framing Of the organic lars of the terri
tories seeking admission to the Union a
| States That this was the correct view
r of the case is proven fully by the event!
/. which have trauSpIred since tho racc,o.