Daily American organ., 1856-08-21
FOreignism.


Developments are being made with great
rapidity, which will induce all American born
lovers of the Union to rally as one man in
support Of the doctrines of the American party
The whole German population of the United
States, of foreign birth, have already banded
dom, and are making common cause with the
rankest anti-slayery men of the North, in OPP
position to the constitutional rights of the
South. Within three months from this day
the whole American people, with the exception
of the political demagogues of the hour, will
see and admit the necessity Of the American
movement.
We rejoice, that this development of the
real sentiments of that class of our foreign
citizens is being made-R0t so much because
it will vindicate the opinions we have sought
for fifteen years to incucate, but because it
will open the eyes Of all Americans, in time to
enable them to apply the appropriate remedy,
and prevent the final overthrow of our insti-
tutions. tits significant fact that JSpe-sigths
of the German papers in the United States
now advocate the election of John @. Fremont,
and of those few which have not hoisted his
flag, there is scarcely one that is not prevented
from doing so, by the influence of treasury pap.
The fact is too well known to require eluci-
dation or proof and indeed it stands so univer-
sally admitted as to render proof of it superero-
gatory, that the entire foreign German popu-
lation has taken decided stand for the Free
soil Abolition candidate and will cast its entire
strength against that sham Democracy which
it has hitherto sustained. To what extent this
detection from their ranks will diminish the
votes of the sham Democrats, can only he
properly estimated when we state, that in St
Louis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Chicago, and
other portions of the North and West, the Ger
mans had plurality of votes at their last elec-
tions.
We hazard but little in saying that in seve-
raj of the North w cstern States, the German
vote exceeded the majorities of Pierce over
Scott in 1852, and that the withdrawal of that
German vote from the sham Democracy in the
several States, and if cast upon third candidate,
would have given Gen. Scott the election. But
the point we make noao is, that the Germans
have gone over, almost in body, to the sup
port of the Northern sectional candidate thus
proving, their unity of sentiment in opposition
to the rights and interests of the South.
But another element of different character
in some respects, though alike foreign in its
origin, and dangerous in its influences, has also
left the sham Democracy, and gone over to the
enemies of Southern rights and Southern insti-
tutions, thus further diminishing, and to an
extent which alarms its leaders, that party,
which in times past, has claimed to be the es-
pecial guardian of the South. IA We allude to
the Irish-born portion of our population In
former articles we have demonstrated the coali-
ton between Greeley, Seward, and tJohn
Hughes, under which large portion of that
population will go to Fremont
But another portion of that population has
now openly arrayed itself against the sham
Democracy, and whilst it has done so upon
grounds which are not only untenable, but
which will receive the condemnation of every
honorable man in the nation, the fact is no
less ominous of the certain defeat Of that
sham Democracy, by reason of the diminution
it has produced in its ranks. We allude to
the position taken by that portion of the Irish
population who follow in the lead of Darcy
niece, editor of the American Celt
The efforts made by the elitor of the Celt, TO
arouse his countrymen to a sense of the alleged
wrongs committed against Irish citizens in the
circumstances surrounding the death of Thos.
Keating of this city, and accompanying the
trial and acquittal Of Mr.. Herbert of California,
by whose hand the death occurred, are doubt
less familiar to our readers. Those efforts have
not been unsuccessful. Auxiliary thereto, the
Irish citizens of Washington have published
and extensively circulated pamphlet, through
the aid Of the Republicans, to influence the
Irish population against the South.
In this pamphlet the Judge Of the Criminal
Court, the United States Marshal, and the
Jury by whom Mr.. Herbert was acquitted or