The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-05-09
IMMIGRANTS AND SLAVERY.

of Tennessee, of late one Of the represent,
lives Of that State in Congress, made specs
in the House of Representatives in 1850, o
the admission of California MS State, il
which he used the following language:
!. ave stand almost alone amenes. tn
highly civilized portion Of mankind in tn
Z maintenance Of the institution of domesti
slavery;th iohole of cirilized Europe has bee,
>thororghly indoctrinated ,oith opposition 20 Il
The thousands and millions Of femigrdnts from
her shores all come ioith their prsadiees acaiins
Il, and when they arrive in this country the,
find the most lovely portion Of the continent
in the possession of the slaveholders. Mos
of the mechanical trades and labor on farms
and public roads in our country is performed
by slaves, and these foreigners are more O,
less excluded from this wide field of employ.
ment, which they had partially pre- occupied
4 in the North. Interest is thus superadded te
! he early prejudice Of education ag gainst slauery
Unfortunately too, the large masstf this class
/ Of persons hare had no knowledge or erperi.
ence of The advantages deriuabie from repubii
can institutions or The solemnity of consiit,s.
tiondl obligations" us'
The hynchburg Virginian says, "No fair
man will deny that this is correct descrip-
ton Of the character and sentiments of for
F+lgners when they arrive in this country
Nine hundred and ninety nine of every thou.
sand of them have sheen thoroughly indoctri.
mated with opposition" to slavery, and "come
with their prejudices against it," Arriving at
New York, or Boston, or Philadelphia, as
nearly. all OF them do--upon free soil-tIiey
have no inclination, and, but little induce
inent, to come South and enter into competi.
lion with slave labor. They remain in the
free States, increasing their representation In
Congress, and swelling their prepondcrance
in the Union; or they push on 70 the Terrific.
rles of the West and contribute to making
them free States. This is the process by
which State after State has been hurried into
the Union in the Northwest, and the means
by which the Emisrant Aid Societies of the
North expect to convert the remaining Terri
tories into Free States, before the South can
supply sufficient quota of the population to
control their institutions. With these palpa.
BILE and inevitable results staring them in the
lace, is it not most extraordinary that the
Democratic leaders Of the South should re.
sist those reforms OF the naturalization laws
which the American party propose making?
And if there could be anything more extraor-
binary is it not TO be found in the amazing
assumption that while pursuing this policy
they claim to be the true friends of the South
and the real champions Of slavery?"
MEANNEss DoEs NOT PAY.--Hunt's Mer.
chants Magazine contains the following par.
agraph on the subject Of meannees, s ,i--@
There is no greater mistake that "a business
man can make, than to be mean in his bus.
mess. Always taking the half cent for the
dollars he has made and is making. Such
policy is very much like the farmers who !
sows three pecks Of seed where he ought to
nave sown five, and MS II recompeDse for the (
canness of his soul, only gets ten, where he I
ought to have got fifteen bushels of grain
Everybody has heard of the proyerb of pen t
~ wise aud pound foolish A liberal expen.
iiture in the way Of business is a capital in (
'estment. There are people in the world,
Who are short sighted enough to believe their
nlerests.can be best promoted by graspng
md clingIng to all they can get, aud never
citing cent slip through their fingers /
rs a general thing il will be found, other .
llings being equal, that he who is the most
LIBERAL is the most successful in business \
)f course we do no: mean it to be inferred
hat a man should be prodigal in his expen. J.
itures but that he should. show to bis GUS
oiners, If he is n trader, or those whom he I
nay be doing any kind OF business with, that,
q all transactions, as well rs social relations,
e acknowledges the everlasting fact that
here can be no permanent prosperity in a COM 4
lunity where benefits are not reciprocal.
A Losc FAREWELL TO Hoops.-Says the
Albany Transcript: While the French Nation
re felicitating themselves that a son is born
0 Eugene, the whalebone merchant and
ooper % of this country looks upon the
vent rs one that will have IL most decided,
mphatic and fatal effect on the whalebone
mrket. Eugene 10 longer has the appear
nee of an obese lager beer barrel, and there.
Ore her votaries in this country will forego
he use ofhoops to give them embonpoin:.--
Veil, Allah be praised. Gaudeanus igitur, d
r, as Shakespeare says, "For this relief much
ianks." The sidewalk on Broadway shall
OF be widened, ,aud the male pedestrian shall
gain be recognized ms having right to
nrt of the Sidewalk, and not per force TO walk ,
the gutter. Sic transit gloria hoop.
BoUGus LoTTERIEs.-Weh have been shown
paper called the American Eagle, purport.
g to have been published in Cleveland,
hio, which contains very imposing array
lottery shemes, with capital prizes rang Z.
Q from twenty thousand to twenty FIVE |,
ousahd dollars; the tickets for which are |
lvertised to be sold at one dollar! This Is I
,e of the most daring and barcfaced frauds
at hus ever been attempted, and, from the !,
imerous letters which the Commissioner of
otteries has received from persons at dis. q
nee, il is believed that many thousands of I
ese lottery circulars, disguised rs newspa- G
RS, have been sent throughout the country,
ID that many credulous persons have been !.
vindlcd Of their money. Let il be remem. u
'red that the names of Morris q. Co, {
no are alleged to be agents OF. the ''Grand q
harter Lotteries" and who date their circu. !,
rs from Cleveland, Ohio, are fictitious, and -
at the "Grand Charter Lotteries" are al!
gus concerns. There is another cohccrn
asimiar character which, under The name $
Murry g. Co.-evidenily intended as a d