Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-04-08
Foreigners, and the Uses TO which they are
put-A Waning to the South

In the Virginsan OF yesterday morning we gave
. pregnant paragraph from leading lrfh jour
nal. in which 1t vas declared that an active cor
respondence had been going on between Senator
Samuer al Massachusetts aud the Earl of Car
Isle, Lord Lieutenant If Ireland. and that "a
perfect league. has been essatii shea between ths
abohtioa disuaaoniss Of the United States and
the aristocracy If great Britain. That league
We showed related ta the slavery agitation, aud
the importation Il foreigners meals Of keep.
ing it alive and rendering Il effective. Since
that article was written We have come IN posses
sion Of still more convincing proof OF the use to
whicA the sboliiion-,e are putting Immigrants
aud Of the fatal influence they are ereriing IN
building up free sta'es and aggrandizog the pow
or Of the free so lpnr,y. That proofisof char
scter which no man can doubt-it IL the comics
sion Of the abolitonists. adopted by Judge Doug
las aud incorporated by him in his late powerful
report ON the KANSAS question. II is extracted
by him from an dficinl publication q the Massa-
chusetts Emigrsnt Aid Society, setting forth its
Organization. Objects and Plan Of cpera,i ons.'
with the advantage attained by such sys'
tenn of effort. the Territory selected ms ihe scene
Of operations. weuid,.N Is believed, be filled up
with free inhabitants. There Is reason h. sup.
pose several thousand men vt New England orr.
gin propose 10 emigrate, under the auspices oil
some such arran cement. this very summer. ~
the ,ske.e emigration from Europe. amounting
to some 4G0, 600 persons. there can be no d.NeM'
fy in inducing some 10000 OF 10000 10 take the
same direction"
We have been urged by Southern Democrats
to regard the slavery question as transoending
in importance oil party issues, and we hive been
invoked TO forget all secondary subjects ct vnri-
anoe,apd present mn united front from the South
Here. then, is a basis upon which the whole PEG.
pie Of the Slave States may come together The
North has grown powerful, even to mastery, by
means Of addition 70 its population from foreign
oous,ries. Once the Sauth naied but the armies
Of aliens who have poured into the North have
snatched the sceptre from our hands. and wa
now stand ready TO be ,rodden down by the MGR
oiless fanaiicism Of those whom We once oycraw-
ed by our power and sienced by the simple tone
of command Bet, not content with the asc"n
dency they have. already aequired,and rioting in
the prospect of completely overwhelming and
crushing Us. the New England aboliiionists still
urge on the work of extending the dominion OF
free soil. Foreign immigration affords them
cheap and convenient means of making free satos
and increasing the preponderunee Of the North
ern vote in Congress. Every free state added to
the Union gives two members Of the Senate and
one or more q the House. population less
than one hundred Thousand entities a territory TO
apply for admission into tho Union. There can
BE- no di Ecwity," the Massachusetts nbotionists
assure US "in inducing some 30, 00D or 10000"
of The newly arrived cmigrants from Europe 10
20 TO Kansas within tho year. OF coarse not
They arrive, for the most part, in state Of utter
restitution. They are promised employment,
bread lands, the privileges Of Immediate citizen
ship, If they will 60 to Kansas and vote, as all
their instincts and prejudices prompt them to
vots,for free labor and free soil They are fur
nished l,oney to carry them there. Could any
thing be more reasonable than the calculation Of
these aboiticnists that thirty or forty thousand
(nearly halfth number requisite 70 make STATED
can be induced without difficulty to go to Kansas
or any other territory, within any given twelve
months And thus the people of the South-the
descendants of the men who conquered the liber-
ties and established the institutions of the coun-
try, who beat back its savages, subdued its for
ests, reared Its cities, built its rairoads-who
made it what it is, of the most glorious lands
on earth-these men are TO be excluded from
some OF the fairest portions of their heritage bv
the hordes of miserable outcasts from tho des-
potisms of Europe, invited to our shores and
invested with power by the Democratic party,
and turned to their own uses, after getting here.
by the abolitonists of the North. BY the pro-
visions Of the Kansas bill these foreigners. on
arriving in the Territory, have but to make
known their intention Of becoming citizens, when
they are at once endowed with the righ, Of suf
frage, whether they knew word Of English o,
not. Fishsd, up fraia the cutters and kenuols o
Europe, poured out from its jails, its hospital.
and its poor houses, as many of them are. steep
cd in ignorance and degradation, they have bu
to place themselves in the hands of some aboli
ton - emigrant aid society to be transported t
Kansas, and to be given the privilege of sayin
chat the American bora Southerner shall no
come, with the property bequeathed him per
haps by his revolutionary sire, upon that soil,t
make for himsef and his children home. Tn
American party have, time and again, urged fact
like this on the consideration Of the South--an
yet they have been rallied at as unworthy q
Southern confidence by the very party whic
encourages: immigration, opposes all change il
the naturalization laws. and places this powerful
element of mischief in the hands of the aboli
tiouists. The American party would withhold
from the newly arrived immigrant the privilege @
voting, and thereby nestsalize his power of don
An intolerabe wrong to'the South-but the Dem
ocratic party say: Moths is the land of equs
rights-let there be no discrimination on accour
of the accident of birih--iet the oppressed of a
lAnds come and share with US our birth right
We ask American born citizens which is right