American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-05-03
NoRNIGETsNI NoRry.

we publish, IN the next column, an
able article upon the influence welded
by Forcignism at the elections in the
North, to the prejudice and dctrimcnt
Of the South and IFS Institutions
The arguments and facts stated are so
forciblo that they commend themselves
at once to the mind Of the impartial
and appropriated thinker; while every
one who candidly considers these truths
must be constrained to aid forward the
only alternative-thc potent corrective
embraced in the creed Of the Nation
al American party, viz: the proposition
that Americans alone must govern
America" The;overweoning influx of
foreign immigration, settling in the
states Of the North, unable and unwil-
ling TO discriminate between Liberty"
in the abstract and the Constitutional
rights Of a large portion Of cur con-
fcdcracy, no sooner becomes invested
with suffrage, than it joins the howl of
Abolition fanaticism, labors fer It's sue
cess and votes il a solid column for its
most clamoreus champions. The for
cign vote of the North is pestiferous
source of Abolition power, giving vol
umc and strength to the clatter Of Sc
ward and Greedy. Its thousand5 swell
the sum total of inhabitants, represcn-
ted on the floor of Congress, and there
enters at once into cur legislation, an
element Of p01Cer, as potent for evil as
the knife of the assassin in the vitals
Of the vietim. There are 40 more
noisy and turbulent Abolitionists at
the polls, or the political assemblages,
in the North than these foreign battal-
ions, and for the reason that they are
lmlcarned in our Republican institu-
tons, and hence unable to appreciate
the compromises Of the Constitution,
wherein the rights of sovereign and
individual States are so equit&bly pois-
ed that an infraction of one is an iniu-
ry to all and thrust at the bond of
Union which so happily rnites the to-
tality Of States into a powerful and
beautiful and glorious Confcdcracy.
But we will not now enlarge upon
the topics presented lcgitimatcly here;
our cotomporary has pointed out the
evil and indicated tho remedy, with a
force that must coerce conyiction.-
Let the people of the South examine
tins question candidly, and ask them
selves if there can be proposed any
more certain security for their vested
rights and peculiar institutions against
the encroachments Of fanaticism than
is comprised in the American platform
Of principles. Let the hordcs of igno-
rant and un-Americanized foreigners
who crowd our shores annually be en-
lightencd--and not allowed to vote un-
til they have had time to become en-
lightcncd--in the main features of our
sacred Union bond, the Constitution,
and all will be well. While the North
has added to her natural increase of
population, the transatlantic thousands
ofunrcpuJlicanizcd citizens and suffra-
gans, we may hope for nothing better
than ccaselcss agitation of the Slavery
question, If not eventually D1sUNION
itself. The freshly arrived Irishman,
Englishnan, or German, is not COM
pctcnt arbitrator Of the nice points Of
the Constitution, which has invoked the
genius and employed the oloquence Of
Americas profoundcst Statesmen, to
keep hallowed from usurpation its
broad yet circumscribed provisions. -
The manifest evil to the South from the
representation in Congress Of this for
eign Abolition clement should arouse
the citizcns Of the slavc-holding States
to apply a potent Constitutional romc-
dy--onc that will reach to the future.
For the protection Of our vested rights
and the presentations Of the Union, it
is absolutely necessary that "Amcri. |
raVR aioRe shaH rule llmcrba."