Daily American organ., 1856-08-16
The Foreign Vote.

The Foreign Vote.
We have ever maintained that the foreign
vote in the United States would be concentra-
ted in .tacor of Abolitionism and against the
South, whenever it should be believed by their
leaders, that such foreign vote is sufficiently
powerful to decide contest between Sec
tionalism, and the constitutional rights of the
South We have had for fifteen years past
but one opinion on this subject, and that opin-
ion was formed from thorough knowledge of
the views in which all Europeans are brought
up from their infancy, and from the further
knowledge of the natural antagonism between
free and slave labor.
Those who oppose the American movement
assert, that naturalized foreigners readily as
sent to the propriety of maintaining the exist
ing relations between master and slave at the
South, and some of our opponents have gone
so far as 6r0geIy to assert, that foreign Catho-
Tics especially, are always ranged on the side
in this country, naturalized or not, as gene
raj rule they may be set down as thoroughly
opposed to African slavery, and they are an
clement Of power, which, sooner or later will
be used to PROSTATE, as far as practicable, the
constitutional rights of the South. The Cath
olic portion of this element is in tn highest
degree dangerous, because Jesuitical.
The time has now arrived when Bishop
Hughes and his coadutors believe they can
control the pending election, and hence that
leader declared, but short time since, as dis
tinctly announced in an article published in
the New York Tribune, authorized if not writ
ten by him, that "he is as much opposed to
slavery as Daniel 0'Connell sOas, or as the New
York Tribune is." How much Daniel O'Con-
nell aDas opposed TO slavery, may be remem-
bercd by those who read, some dozen years
ago, his earnest appeal to the Catholic Irish in
this country, to take the side of freedom
aginst slavery, whenever and wherever their
efforts could be made available
How much the New York Tribune is OPP
posed to slavery, can be known by reading it's
columns, which are filled day after day, month
after month"; with assaults upon the South and
its Institutions.
The Catholic foreigners under the influence
of John Hughes now occupy the position
which they were entreated to assume by that
great agitator, O'Connell. Jesuitism works
under its masks, till the time arrives for bold
and open action. Hence thousands at the
South have really believed, from the past non
interference with the South by Catholic for
eiguers, that they were not hostile to Southern
institutions.
The present contest will demonstrate the
incorrectness of that belief, and exhibit the
foreign element, with few occasional excep-
tons, in direct opposition to the South and in
an open support of John G. Fremont. What
party is the national and acknowledged polti-
cal antagonist of that foreign element? Not
the sham Democracy, whose Congressional re-
solves of last December, and whose resolutions
at Cincinnati denounce the American move
ment and who are now yieing with the Repub-
licans in beslavering the foreigners with full
some praise.
20 what party can the South look for de-
fence against these cohorts Of foreign Aboli-
tionists? The South must answer this ques-
ton for herself
But are the foreigners in truth arrayed on
the side of Fremont and Freedom?" Let
their dozens upon dozens of presses in the
North answer this question With the excep-
ton of here and there press, owned and con-
Quoted by foreigners scho hare been purchased
NTH Treasury pap, the whole foreign press
in this country, from Benefits Herald, dozen
to the smallest country sheet, is shrieking for
Fremont and FTeed0p1i
But look also at their resolves On the 23d
lay Of July, 1856, not one month ago, meet
ng Of. foreigners was held at indianapolis, Indi-
ina, which meeting was addressed in several
animated speeches" when the following reso-
utions passed unanimously" They read
thus:
ResotSed, That slavery is the relic Of barbar-
BUS age, and In this enlightened era should become
extinct.
Res0teed, That they are hypccrites and liars,
who, out Of motives Of interest and ambition, dare
to cay that tho mon who would give liberty to the