The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-11-16


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Know Nothsngs and slave Labor Desrssfa-
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The accounts that have lately appeared in leading
Irish newspapers, OF the extensive emigration which
~ taxing place 70 South America, base probably ar
ton'shed many readers The first impression 10 of
the oihcuty and discomfort caused by difference OF
language and ot manners and customs. The factis,
however, that the Irish ofthe really Romish dhtrcts
have sympathies with continental and colonial Ca
ihohcism which go much further than community
OF language; and there are pains rnd penalties at
present connected with immigration TO the
United States which it is worth a good deal
Of merely external trouble TO avoid. The
Irish ia the South American States are form
ing an element of society there analogous TO that Of
tbs Flemings and French immigrants into
Great Britain, Ireland and the seab0ard States Of
North America, which has been Of great and per
and Flemings VINO settled in our southeastern ooun-
ties pursuing their useful arts, and having their own
churches and pastors and (for time) schools, seem
to have found the difference OF language serious
drawback. The traditions which bang about the
Dutch Church and the French Church in NORWEGIAN
other towns, and the records OF public institutions
there, seem to show that the strangers speedily
became prosperous and honored class OF citizens;
and in each locality where they settled Of their
names have been kept alive by the merits of their
posterity. What the Continental Protestants did
and became in Great Britain and Ireland, the
Irish Catholics may do and become in South Anne
rufactures Our Catholic emgrants promise to
become great in agriculture. II some Of the needy
Iab0rers who went out with nothing but the clothes
they wore and the tools they carried are now worth
15,OO0 and upwards, there Is every reason TO hope
that substantial and respectable Irish class may
mingle with the Spanish blood Of those ci-derdnt
European cooDies--iiish energy amalgamate well
VIII the vivacous yet indolent graces of the people
OF BDenos Ayres and Rio Janefio. They will noe have
TO build churches the Continental Caviniss had ia
our episcopalian country. The churches, with their
services III an unknown tongue, are ready end open.
We have heard more OF the warnings sent 70 ire
land by the priests in the United States since the
rise OF the Know Nothing parry than ever before;
but the Know Nothing party Is only mushroom
growth, which ought not to affect the permanent
destnies Of any substantial class Of Immigrants.
There Is q hostile and detrimental influence which
was daily growing in force before the Know Nothing
party existed, and which will operate against Euro
pean immigration long after tina. organization ceases
to be beard Of. Il is painful and morally dangerous
to the lrislman in the United States 70 find his re
gion prosecuted and himself cast out from settle
ment after another on account OF his creed but it is
worse in every way TO lind himself despsed Oppressed
aud subjected to overwhelming temptation on the
ground Of his being OF the industrial class; and this
ID what the immigrant finds ii he is msled into
settling in the slave States for the sake Of Catholic
privileges or Of profits above the average; or if ne
strife about free and slave labor. He may have
heard that Mitchell and Meagher his insnrrectionary
country man, have publicly declared their aspira-
LlOES 3IIeT a ROOO piaHtdLlOu wen btOCkcu WIFI
negroes, and their sympathes with the peculiar in
sttutions of the South; but when he learns how his
class are now regarded by these Irish patriots he
will thank Heaven that they are Protestants, and
allure them for ever as leaders. He will fud-and
we say with all the seriousness and all the sorrow
that such statement denands-that the organs of
the Southern policy recommend, from the platform
and through the press, the inclusion Of all aborers,
Of any complexion, in the slave class. II free and
slave labor cannot coexst-and it is true that they
cannot-the owners Of slaves demand that all
laborcrs shond he brought under their conditions,
rather than that they should be compelled 70 free
their negroes.
The greatest of oil the thousand curses Of slavery,
wherever it exists, IL, and has always BEEN that it
renders industry oisrepu'able. Labor and degrade
ton ndissoluby united in the associations Of the
buyers and sellers Of laborers and hence the wretch
edness and vice Of the poor whites Of the slave
States, and the miserable disappointment OF such
irishmen as have gone there without warning OF
what they had to expect. The present conflict Of
principles and parties has brought out the fact in
the broadcast light; and the published doc ine Of the
supporters Of MIR. Buchanan, speaking in the name
OF the democratic party, will probably decide many
Irish 10 depart for Rio Janelr0 at once. At any rate
il will instruct them in the great American truth
that names are not principles; and that they may
have been sllying themselves with the ,st outrag
tyranny on earth because 1t called itself demo-
cratic and not as they supposed, with any exponent
Such facts as the following should be made known
through the Length and breadth OF Ireland. and
every European country which supplies laoourers to
the United States
The Richmond Examiner, leading democratic
paper in Virginia, and devoted to Mr.. Buchanan's
interest," has just issued the following paragraphs
Until recently, the defence OF slavery has laborcd
DER great dcnies because is Apologies tor they we're
nero Apologs0) took bali way grounds. Tney confined
The defence Of slavery TO mere negro slavery reby
giving up the slavery principle, admitting other forms Of
ne line Of defence. however, 10 now changed. The
South noe maintains that slavery right natural, and
necessary and does not depend on difference Of CON-
plsx'on The laws OF she slave States justify tho holding
Of white men In bondage.
Another Richmond paper, the Enquirer, Mr.. Blu
chanans own recognised organ in the leading South
ern State, follows thus -
Repeatedly have asked the North, .Has no. the az
pertinent OF universal liberty failed Are the evils
Of rcc society nsueSpief And do not most thinking
among you propose TO subvcr and reconstruct ~
proof added TO many other conclusive evidence, 10
have iurnished, that free society In the long
sr% ana I's
pesay then, that policy and humanity alike forbid
Tho cxisteDcs Of The evils Of free society 70 new
people and coming generations. Two opposite and con-
ctips forms Of society cannot, among cisisei men,
xis and en- uve. The must give way and
70 exist the other become universal II free society be
unnatural immoral unchrktian, IL mut fall add give
way TO slave socctya social system Old as the ~ord,
universal ~ man.
The democratic organ in South Carolina, and the
leading newspaper Of the State, speaks thus -
slavery IL the natural ana normal oonduou OF u,o
laboring man. whether white or BLACK Tho great evil
OF NoYibcrn feo society u, tnxt 10 IL burdcned with
eervie cass OF mechanics and sborcrs, unit Tor sell
government, yet clothed with the attributes ami powers
Of citizens Master and slave relation in society
necessary % that OF parent end child aud tbs Northern
States vii yet have W Introduce Iber theory Of froe
eovernmant ~ q delusion.
Alabama thus gives IN her adhesion to the demo-
cratic doctrine, In the bfuscogee Hcraid:-
Free ssiey We sckcn at the name. What Ia II hut
cnDRlomeFnt0n Of greasy mechanics, fithy operatives,
smahsted farmers and moonstruck theorists All inc
northern, and especially the New England States, de-
void OF society ntted Tor well bred gentlemen The pre-
vniiing class meets win that OF mechanics suug
cling 10 be renieci, and small farmers who do their
drudrery and Jet who hardly 6t for association with
southern eeni,emans body servant Thu Ia your free
society, which the Northern hurdles are ondeayoring 70
extend into kansNe
III no new thing in any slave country to hear
that slaves better of than free labWcrs because
they have gentlemen 10 take care OF them; bat we
now, for the first time, observe actual attempt
include European immigrant laborers In the class of
slaves. A democratic candidate for Congress, Mr..
Reynolds from Missouri, declared in recent speech
that any power OF Congress which should exclude
slavery from Kansas would exclude tsermana and