Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-09-17
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&, The South, Immigration and Squatter Sovereignty
We extract the following suggestive paragraph
from the Raleigh Register, accompanied by the com.
monts thereon Of the Lynchburg vrginian:
n the year $780, and Tor several years thereafter the
South had members Of the House OF Repre-
sentstives while the North had only thirtyfour Since
that time the North has by Of foreign accession
been steadily increasing It's representation, and left the
South In minority Of more than halt hundred; and this
huge majority will increase continually aud will be-
come weaker and weaker year after year, unless do
something tor safety Let the fifteen States that
be made Of Nebraska and the twelve OF Kansas and the
number that can be made Of Utah. Minnesota Oregon
Washington, Ike. apply for admission into the Union
States which they will Co. unless stop put to this
immense importation Of foreigners,'and in what
beautiful -,dority will be. Then ought not the South
to do its best TO remedy this great and growing evils
Certainly and the only way Is to vote for Willard Fill.
more Who will carry out American principles, aud in some
degree put stop to immigration"
I'VE take the foregoing from the Raleigh Register.
need only refer to the Census tables satisfy him
sef its truth But for immigration the Southern States
would only have maintained the preponderance the
union they held in $780, but would have added il for
those tables show that in native increase of population
the South has exceeded the North Should Mr. Buchan-
be elected President il will be regarded abroad
declaration against the native American policy, aud
invitation to foreigners to among and participate
in government invitation OF which they will not be
principle they will settle nine one in the free States
and territories. The immense regions lying and
north of US will ere long divide into States and
seek admission into the Union. immigration and
Sovereignty will have made them free States Where will
the South be when they thrown into the scale against
herr Texas divided into four five States will furnish
no countcr-poise. Cuba would add but another State
Should acquire the whole OF Mexico, have the
highest Democratic authority for believing that Squstcr
Sovereignty would make il all free Where the South
to find relief ard protection? No where hut in bat ling
the threshold and the hearth those powerful Demo
cratic agents of Observation-Disclosures and Squater
Sovereignty Unless they can be shed and subiued the
South j. lost rcmeditessy and forever. pness
quer them, they will conquer Shall make
united and manly efioit noSl"
No man reflect upon the subject thus discuss
cd, without being fully and completely convinced
that the radical modification if the absolute and
unconditional repeal, Of the naturalization laws is
demanded by the best and highest interests of the
South. Strange indeed that should wiliuly
shut their eyes TO the patent and pressing fact that
the Southern section of the Union is fast becoming
newer Of wood and q drawer of water for the
North, in consequence OF the immense and constant
ly increasing immigration which annually flows to
our shores from the eifete and ant-republican GO
yernments of the old world. 1t is a well known and
undsputed fact that nnetynine out of every hundred
emgrants from Europe take up their residence in the
Northern States, become permanent citizens and
thus add UNNECESSARILY to the political power Of that
portion of the Union Scarcely single State in the
great Northwest, but has been settled and built up
almost exclusively by emigrants from abroad. For
several consecutive years the number Of foreigners
annually reaching this country amounted to five hun
dred thousand-which is equivalent to an addition
-r--s-------A--- S--e-~.s pc ~,
and an addition Of .ffty members in the short space
OF ten years. So long the North continues to be
nfaAa a.
Is 1t to be expected that the South can compete with
lhe North IN the race for political powerl As re-
marked in one of the quotations above "but for i'm
migration the Southern States would not only have
maintained the preponderance in the Union they
held IN 1870, but would have added to it for the
census tables show that in natire increase of popu
lation the South has exceeded the North" From be-
ing far in advance Of the North in political weight
ana Importance, we have, by means of immigration
alone dwindled down and down, until we are now
completely At the mercy of our Northern enemies
And yet men here at the South, pretending to love
OIL the south and pretending to sagacity and states
manship, resist any and all attempts to remedy the
vast ana growing evil, which is daily shearing us Of
our strength, and eating into our very vitals WHY
Is thisY why do men Of ordinary penetration in
stead of aiding in mitigating what is so hurtful and
efforts at remedy, but deliberately hold out induce
ments and rewards for its continuance and perpetual
tonY Tue answer, however discreditabe to their
patriotism, is plain and easy. President is to be
elected-the triumph Of party is to be secured-the
honors and emouments Of Office are to be obtained
and for these purposes the foreign vote mighty and
growing element in our elections, is to be courted
and propitiated Nothing is TO be said or done to
nd
whom lef their country for their countrys good and
arc now "squatter soveregns" upon the fairest and
richest portions Of American soil No matter what
mschiefs may result to the South. Southern men in
order to get their votes for their party and their
ddates, are content to let in upon us the of.scour
ing aud refuse Of all the nations Of the world with
out check or limitation. And by this means l. 1,
that the political inferioity Of the South has been
brought about-brougbt about by selfish unscrnpu.
ious, trading politicians for personal and party adj
vantage
Ii requires no prophet to foretell that the Demo
cratic policy on this question will result in the com
pIete exclusion Of the South from all participation in
the enjoyment Of the common territories of the Uni
on For example, under the alien provision Of tb,
kansas-Nebraska bill, which allows foreigner M,
ten days in the country to vote the moment ne 6l..
n
some indefinite future period we say that unde,
this extraordinary and abominable provision Kan.
sas Is given up IN the sole possession Of foreigner,
and their Yankee engineers tits clear that to max.
Kansas free State in almost the twinklinp Of an
eye 1t Is only necessary for the Abolition Emorsp
Aid Society at the North to station an agent at the
wharf ~ the city Of New York, instructed to receive
every cargo Of live voters as they land from Ireland
and Germany, and send them off. their exn.rso.
paid, to the fertile prairies Of Kansas Getting there
they at once become voters, fully empowered to de-
termine the question whether Southern men viii.
their property shall settle in that territory. W.
know OF no more convenient and rapid and certain
method Of making Kansas free State And being
erected INTO ireo State the political power Of the
North Is at once increased to the extent Of counl,
Of Senators aod one, two, three or hnlfdozen MON
bers Of the House Of Representatives. We doub,
whether the bitterest enemies Of the South II tho,
had set about the attempt deliberately and with m,