American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-05-03
AMERICAN PARTY Ar wUu,
SOUTH.

'SSVhi'hS = fHiShuStS VI lIlc AncflCln'
party, and nevertheless cry out us thew
do against the advances of Northe IN
fanaticism, under the names of Free
sosltsm, Black Republication, .A5olt-
ttontsn', and every other ism cngen-
dcrcd by the restless spirits of that
section of the Union. Of aom are
the rank and file of these fact .ons COM
posed? Of Americans by biith? No,
but OF the cftscourings Of European
jails and alms-houses, that arc cast upon
our shores by the vast tide of immicra-
ton setting to our shares, and are rea-
dy to be made use O., by political aspi
rants, utterly reg rdless of consequent
ces, so soon as ,ney can be made avail
able by tho present patent process of
naturalizc Jon. 1t is from this source
that tho NORTH and WEST swell their
number of Representatives in the Coun-
CHS OF the country and rob the South
OF its due weight in the confederacy.
The number of immigrants that set
tie at the South, Is diminutive when
compared with the hosts that, locust
like, flock to the free States, as they
are termed, and become voters almost
as soon as they place their feet upon
the soil. Hence is it that we see the
representations from the States above
named increase with such startling ra-
pidity. Admitting the natural increase
at the South to be equal to that at the
North, what becomes of it ina political
point OF view when to the latter is add
Ell the artificial increase, supplied from
foreign lands. 1t is literally as dust
in tho bal ance, and yet Southerners,
protesting to have Southern political
interests at heart, will, for the sake of
mere antiquated party associations, re-
fuse to join with "a party, the object of
which is to equalize the great sections
of the Union, by placing their political
rights upon natural basis. Let these
Southern people compare, if they will,
the foreign votes in the Southern
States, Virginia, for instance, with the
same vote in the Northern and Western
States, and they will be amazed at the
result. At the election of Governor
Wise, in the State of Virginia, out of
an aggregate vote of some hundreds of
thousands, there were, we believe, not
more than 10000 cast by persons of
| foreign birth, while at the late election
in Connecticut, in Hartford, the capt.
tol of that State, and New Haven, its
great seat of learning, the proportion
OF those who voted the so-called Dem
ocratic or Administration ticket, was
as two to one in favor of the foreign
vote. '. .".f
The idea of Americanism was actu-
ally hooted at and ridiculed as absurd
by Mr.. Wise and his friends, when it
suited their purpose, but they seemed
to forget that in national politics the
whereabouts of the foreign vote is i'm
material, and that this same foreign
vote has given to Ohio, one of the
youngest of the States, her % repre-
sentatives in Congress and the Electo-
raj College, almost every man e. whom
is tainted with one or other Of the isnss
of which we have spoken, while the
I"Old Dominion" the mother of States
has but II. No wonder then that the
votes of the free States in Congress
should be so overwhelming in all mat
ters Of a sectional character, including
slavery, when the basis of representa-
ton is SO extended, we had almost said
bloatcd, by the incorporation of the
foreign element. 1t may be set down
rs fixed fact, that ninety-nine in the
hundred OF foreigners, none of whom
understand the subject or will apprcci-
ate the modified form in which slavery
exists in the United States, 90 against
1t IN the abstract as subversive of hu-
maa liberty. The Democratic party
has availcd itself Of this state of things,
and by Selling upon foreigners and in
doctrinating them on this point, has
made use Of them in endeavoring to re-
tain It's supremacy, and strange as it
may seem, Southern statesmen. in fol-
lowing the empty shadow of the name
OF Democracy, have overlooked their
most vital interests and have become
the willing instruments of those who
aOe1'e against the sociol institutions of
their constituents. With view to H.
lustrate our views and to show the rel
atlvc proportion between the native
and foreign population, we have pre-
pared tho following short statement of
the population Of twelve Of the largest
northern and western cities, from which
1T appears that the average proportion
is as 1921 natives to 52,1l7 foreign
ers, or very nearly one half: ..0..
Native. Foreign. .... ...... .....
81, l62 1851 Albany, a
88,948 46,677 Boston, .e
1858 1862 Chicago, ..
6O,55S 1851 Cincinnati,