Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-20
From the Richmond (va) WING. Sep. II, 1866.
FOREIGN IMMIGRATION, DEATH TO
SLAVERY.

We extract tho following suggestive paragraphs
from the Raleigh Register, accompanied by the
comments thereon of the Lynchburg Virginian:
"In the year 1909, and for several years there
after, the South bad forty-seven members of the
House OF Representatives, while the n nth had
only thirty-four. Since that time the North has,
by means OF foreign accession, been steadily in
creasing its representation, and left the South in
a minority of more than half u hundred and this
huge majority will increase continually, and we
will become weaker and weaker, wear after wear.
unless we do something for our safety. Let the
fifteen States that can be maize Of Nebraska. and
the twelve of Kansas and the number that cnn be
made Of Utah, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington,
&c., apply for admission into the Union Us States,
which they will soon do, unless a stop is put to
this immense importation of foreigners. and see in
whata beautiful minority we will be. Then ought
not the South to do its best to remedy this great
and growing evil ? Certainly and the only way
is to vote for Willard Fillmore, who will CARR out
American principles, and, in some degree, put u
stop to immigration"
I'VE take the foregoing from the II leigh Regis.
ter. A man need only refer to the Census tables
to satisfy himself Of its truth. But for immigra
ton, the Southern States would not ouly have
maintained the preponderenre in the Union they
held in 1890. but would bnve added to it, tor those
tables show that in native increase Uf population
the South has exceeded the North.
Sliuulu NV. DuCuultl Ut tlftltu TPSlutIlb, u
will he regarded abroad MS II declaration against
the n itive American policy, aud an invitation to
foreigners to come among MS and participate in
our Government, an ivitatiun of which they will
not be slow to avail themselves As a matter OF
choice and of principle. they will settle nine to
one, in tho free States and Territories. The i'm
mense regions lying west and north"cst Of us will
ere long divide out into States. and seek admiss-
ion into the Union. Immigration and SquatteI
Sovereignty will have made them tree States
"havn ,.tII tha C,rtb - .,hnt tlnyn ma hr.trn
inio tAe scale against her? Texas divided into
four or or five States will furnish no counterpoist.
Cuba would add but another State, Should we
acquire the whole Of Mexico, we have the highest
Democratic authority for b.lie'ins that Squstter
Sovereignty would make it all free. Where is the
South to find relief and protection ? Nowhere,
but in battleing at the threshold and to the hearth
those powerful Democratic agents of Free-Snilism
Immigration and Squatter Sovereignty. Unless
they can be ssifcd and subdued, the South is lost
remedilessly and forever. Unless we conquer
them, they will conquer US. Shall we not make
united and manly effort mop?"
No man can reflect upon tho subject thus dis
cussed, without being fully and completely con-
WINGED that the radical modification, ii not the abb
solute and unconditional repeal, of the naturaliza-
ton laws, is &C demanded by the best and highest in
terests Of the South. Strange indeed that men
should wilfully shut their eyes to the patent and
pressing fact that the Southern section Of the I'm
ion is fast becoming a newer of wood and a draw.
err of water for the North, in consequence Of the
immense and constantly increasing immigration
which annually flows to our shores from the effete
aud Anticipation Governments Of the old
world. 1t is a well-knUwn and uudisputed fact
that, ninety-nine out of every hundred e%migrants
from Europe take up their residence in the North
crn States, become permanent citizens. and thus
add immeasurably to the political power of that
portion of the Union. Scarcely II single State in
the great Northwest, but has been settled and
built up almost exclusively by emigrants from
abroad. For several consecutiv" yeats, the num-
amounted to five hundred thousand-which is
equivalent to an addition o, .fce members of Con
gress per year to the North. and an addition of
fifty members in the short spacs of ten years. So
long AS the North continues to be flooded at this
rate with q foreign population. how ia it tn he OK
poured that the South can com pete with the North
in the race for political power? As remarked in one
Of the quotations above, but for immigration, the
Southern States would not only have maintained
the prepOnderance in the Union they held in 1870,
but would have added to il for the census tables
show that in natiUe increase of population the
South has exceeded the North
From being far in advance of the North in po'
litical weight. and Importance, we have. by means
of immigration alone, dwindled down and down
until we are now completely at the mercy of ouI
Northern enemies. And yet men here at The South
pretending to love of the South ana pretending tt
sagacity and craftsmanship, resist any and all at
tempts to remedy the vast and growing evil, which
is daily shealing us of our strength, and eating
into our very vitals.