The Empire County argus., 1856-08-02
The Foreign Vote.

The Foreign Vote.
The indications are, that the foreign vote will be
more divided this year, than at any election for many
year. The Germans are going over in great num-
bers to Fremont and the Irish in the Atlantic cities
will not stick by party which has heretofore always
succeeded in cajoling them into its support, unless
the assassin and bully, P. T. Herbert, shall be ex-
PEELED from the Congressional Halls. Where they
acW vote, is not yet known. Herbert may yet re-
ceive condgn punishment, mauger the obstinacy of
his coadiutors and friends, and be by simple course
of law put in position where he will no longer be
an obstacle to the Vaccinations of the Democracy.
Again, the same reason that impels the Germans
and French to deSertion of the Democratic ranks
will to great extent affect the Irish and other voters
of foreign birth That reason s instructive horror
for human slavery. Persons Of European birth look
on slavery as gross evil always to be battled against
when opportunity offers, and counseling thus they
will go by thousands to the support of the Black
Republican ticket. Viewed in one light, we like
this indication. 1t is evidence of an improvement
in the minds of our adopted citizens. If such evi-
dences had existed years ago. there would now be no
Knownothng party dominant in the land demand
ing longer residence prior to the naturalization of
Europeans as American citizens 1t is incontrover-
tbe evidence that the foreign voters not going
blindly like sheep to the shambes, to cast their sut
frages with party merely because it hawks Democ-
racy at the street corners. There seems, at last to
be one rock on which they splt-the native and the
foreign Democracy. The former took the cause of
slavery into its especial keeping, to be nourished and
fed and promulgated, because of the persecution it
had received at the hands of the Black Republican
and Abolition fanatics Of the North and the honest
Germans and Swiss and French revolt at such de-
basement and set their heads against their former
friends, whom they have hitherto served so well.
But, consoling as is the reflection that foreign
voters do think before casting their sufrages for
party that has so long held them in bondage, there
remains point on which they still delinquent
they do not appreciate the difference between slavery
in the abstract and slavery as an institution of a
country which invited them to come and enjoy the
fat of her lands in peace, under the auspices of her
Institutions as existing under the Constitution framed
by her natural protectors-her patriotic sons =
These sometime faithful allies of the proud Democ-
racy show the lack of appreciation they entertain
for the laws under which enjoy equally with them
the blessings Of freedom, by endeavorng to subvert
those laws-placng party in power whose avowed
mission is to set mees and bounds to the development
of IN institution guaranteed by the Constitution and
guarded by our legislators from whatever quarter Of
the Union.
Yes, they thnk-they think slavery is an evil and
they think it should be hedged in and prescribed,
until the time arrives 10 demolish it at one fell blow
and expunge it from the land. They do not remenl-
bor-rather they do not care to remembar-tnat the
first great principle in the supcrstructure of Re-
public, is a recognition of natural rights as they
were found to exist at the framing of the Consitu-
ton In this one instance, if they were likely to
carry victory with them, would prefer they went
with the pro-slavery party for the nonce, for that
would not result in inevitable NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
though it would be. But they reduce the strength
Of the party they leave without sufficiently augment
ing that of their new friends to give them reason
able show of success, and the American party will
march triumphantly to tho contest, and sweep the
country of designing demagogues and sectional agta
tors whether of the North as against the South,
or of the South as against the North" AIS well
that ends well