Daily American organ., 1856-04-25

Oy snc POoPio III eiioH PoiieiSai oaiAuc lue
evils arising from ioreignism and demagoguism
are apparent they are seen and felt--they are
obvious to ALL and acknowledged by all and
now that no portion of the country can realize
or even perceive any shado1 Of danger from the
adoption of the maxim, that Americans should
rule their own country" it cannot be thought
strange If every portion of the Union should
come under the influence Of this maxim. Least
Of all should 1t be thought remarkable that the
South, whose influence in the National Coun-
ellis is decennially diminished, and whose do
mestic peace and security are seriously threat
ened, by the influx Of countless thousands Of
the more degraded classes of Europeans, should
seek, promptly and earnestly, to arrest the
progress of those evils, which are both lessen
ing her relative political power, and jeopardz-
ing the safety Of her domestic institutions.
On the contrary, zoe should regard il as
strange, were the South to refuss to adopt
American doctrines. Her only safety from
the ultimate destruction Of her peculiar in
terests can be found in these doctrines. Let
immigration continue at its present pace, for
twenty five years longer--let the North be in
creased in population by the twenty or thirty
millions more Of foreigners who in the next
quarter Of a century will have come to our
shores-let those additional millions come to
to the polls and determine (as they wilD our
elections, and how long will the present con-
stitution remain unchangedp How long be-
fore our government would become cOnsolida-
ted and the rights Of tho States, if not even
their very boundaries, would become extincta ?
From the year 1900 to 1910 the immigration
Of foreigners into the United States averaged
about 1000 in each year In the last ten
years the average has been over 240,O0 per
yearl Thirty-four times as many foreigners
come into the country noD, each year, as came
into it fifty years ago At the same ratio Of
progression, about four millions Of people will
annually immigratc hither twenty years from
this datel
At this same rate, within six years from
this day, the annual immigration will be near
lya million Of persons per year, and twelve
years from this date it would be nearly
two millions per year Under the Census
of 1870, the additional foreign population,
over and above the present amount of that
would ercsed that Of the ohite
Of euery slaoe State in the Union
That House Of Representatives which will
twenty years from now be in session, will,
without question, if such immigration contin-
ues, contain three Representatives from the
free States, against one from the slave States !;
and in all human probability, if this immigra-
ton be not checked, the Senate ITSELF twenty
years hence, will number. two Senator'S from
free States, to one from slave States Foreign
ers, before that day, will 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 its coursel
Is it not time for conservative men every
where, at the North as well as ut the South, to
look into the probable consequences Of this indis
criminate and increasing immigration What
though in the last year or two, slight dimi-
mutton Of the ratio Of increase in immigration
has been witnessed2 This has resulted from
a temporary cause, the European war; and
it will be but temporary in duration. But to
say nothing Of the continued outpourings of
the still pent up millions in Europe, look for a
moment across the Pacific, and see tens, aye,
hundreds Of millions of human beings in Asia,
who have already commenced an exodus, which
if unchecked, will overrun even our vast pos
sessions bordering on our magnificent western
ocean, and in less than half century, write
the fate of this now fourishing and glorious
confederacy Of States, in this short and simple
line-.tuit Respublica Americanai
Mr.. Buchanan.