Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-03-27

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rations would it is believed be filed up with free
inabitants. There is reason to suppose several
! thousand men Of New England origin propose to
emigrate. under the auspices Of some such arrange
ment, this very summer. OF he whoLe emigration
from Europe amounting 70 some 400 600 persons,
there can be difficulty tn inducing 1000
10000 TO take the direction. Especially Wilt
prove advantage TO Massachusetts,, If she create
the State by her foresight supply the necessi
ties Of its inhabitants and open 10 the outset com.
muneations between their homes and her ports and
factories"
The Democratic party South claim to be
the especial guardians of Southern inter
ests They assert, that but for their policy,
these interests would be sacrificed to Free
soil aggression. Not content with claim
ing purity for themselves, they fmpugn
the honesty of everybody else Acting un
der partizan impulse, they charge their
Southern American neighbors with being
leagued with Black Republicans, to OPP
pose, at all risks, and in contempt of the
Constitution, the extension of slavery in the
new Territories This is a grave and Sc
rious, but grossly unfounded charge. Its
utterance should tinge the utterer's cheek
with shame, and so fix him in public estima-
ton that his assertions would be harmless
No true friend of a cause deemed to be in
peril, will impeach the fidelity of another,
who claims to be friend of that cause,
when every circumstance of birth, rearing,
interest, duty and affection, evidence the
attachment of one to be as loyal and hon
est as that of the other The impolicy of
such a course is as great, as in this instance,
its violation of truth is fragrant. The sue
cess of a cause demands unity among those
who support it. Such a course produces
diStrust, diSsensiOn and division. Nantes
tations of over-zeal, and great readiness to
suspect the motives of others, are, in them
selves, suspicious. One of the main relian-
ces of the guilty to forefend suspicion, is to
fix it on others. The persistent efforts of
Southern Democrats, in claiming for them
selves and their Northern coadjutors, the
entire credit for previous legislation in be-
half of Southern equality, and the hardi-
hood with which they deny the unsoundneSs
of Northern Democrats, in the face of the
most irrefragable proof to the contrary, is
suggestive of some such motive as we have
aScribed to the guilty villain, who, to screen
the rays Of suspicion from his own head,
manages to reflect them on his innocent
neighbours. Loud-mouthed protestatiOns
of sincerity may gull the groundlings, but
it will put sensible men on the alert against
their movements The Southern people are
beginning to learn that their noisiest friends
are not the safest. Proofs are multiplying,
day by day, that should warn them to watch
these clamOrous defenders of their rights
He was truly a sage, who cautioned his be-
sieged countrymen against the Greeks bear
ing aims 1t will be wise in the South to
be on the guard against that party who are
continually DINING her ears with boastful
asseverations and gracious promises. If the
South would preserve her Institutions, she
must first know what most threatens them
In order to avoid danger, she must know
where it lies, and in what direction to ex-
pect its approaches. 1t becomes the South,
in this, the crisis of her fate, to cast about
her and distinguish her genuine from her
pretended friends. 1t becomes her to stop
her ears and disregard the professions and
appeals of those who have once deceived
her. Every sign betokens danger. Let
her be quick to perceive it, and prompt to
apply the remedy. 1t were to libel her, to
say her true sons, of all parties, would fail
to strike at it, if they could once but see it.
The American Party tells them, and has de-
monstrated that slavery has, and can have
no more earnest, reSolute, uncompromiSing
foe, than the foreign population of this coun-
try. Their antagonism to it is Unborn and
instructive. Their rearing, education, and
interests, all conspire to sharpen this in
stinct, and direct its efforts to the removal
of this stumbling block, and object of their
hatred. No man of reading and reflection
can doubt, for a moment, that the foreigner
regards the negro slave as his rival The
reasoning by which he reaches that conclu-
sion is the simplest operation of that attri-
butte Negro slavery cheapens labor. High
wages is the inducement which led him from
his native land-it is the Canaan for which
his heart yearned Whatever reduces them,
is an obstacle to his wishes His aim is to
eradicate il, and his voice and vote will be
given to it, 1t is natural that he should
do il; it is inevitable that he will do it; it is
indisputabe that he does do it. 1t can be
safely asserted that, in their gross gno-
rance Of our Institutions, they would not
hesitate to extinguish, by one blow, every
trace Of a system SO militant 10 theis inter
ests Complete abolition is not a measure
too radical and sweeping to satisfy their
great animoSity against it. The American
Party says TO the South, if such could be
the fruits Of a natural feeling of opposition,
what must be their course when they act
under the teachings OF our native Northern
fanaticsl At what point will they stopg
What measure OF opposition to our inter
, ests will they not support! Taught by their
Northern advisers-for it is among them