Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-07-24

Foreign Influence.
The American party have faithfully, and
in the face of ridicnle and abuse, continued
to warn the country against the dangers of
foreign influence. Especially have they di-
rected the attention of the Southern peo-
pie to.the foreign vote as fearful source
of danger to their peculiar institutions and
immediate interests. We have great rea-
son to believe that these oft-repeated warn
ings have not been without effect. The in
dications are promising that the people of
the South are beginning to examine this
question, and regard it as practical one,
and an imminently dangerous one, and not
as democratic demagogueS have represented
it, silly wolf-cry, having no real basis.
We say the people of the South are ava
kening to the Importance of this question,
and every step in the Investigation is de-
monstrating the wisdom and foresight of
the American policy, and justifying the
measures by which it proposes to remedy
this alarming state of things. We have
labored under peculiar disadvantages in
impressing the public mind with sense of
this danger In addition to the sophistry
Of the opposition, and their noisy brawling
about prescription on account of birth
place, and their pathetic special pleading
in behalf of the poor oppressed foreigner,
seeking an asylum from persecution in our
Heavenfavored land, the comparatively
small number of emigrants who settle
among US, and their insignifcance as a
power at the polls, have been an obstacle
to our progress. Many honest citizens
who are as ready as the readieSt to array
themselves against foreign influence, and in
favor of the American measures of reform,
have been misled by these artful devices Of
the democracy, and confirmed in their mis-
take by the state of facts above mentioned.
But the scales of error are falling from
their eyes, and the truthfulnesS of the rep
reservations made by the American party
is becoming too apparent to be denied.
The South is learning that foreign influence
is the deadly foe to its interests, and solemn
ly impressed with this fact true Southern
men cannot do otherwise than support the
party which proposes to disarm this vast
influence of its power to harm. They will
not do otherwise, and the adherentS and
apologiSts of foregnism will learn this in
November.
If no other fact had been brought to
light, the action Of the German population
of the North is sufficient to show the ten
denotes of the foreigner to freesoil If the
most obvious view of the foreigners inter
ests does not teach every man that his pro-
clivities, both national and acquired will
prompt him to oppose the Southern system
Of slavery, the almost universal stampede Of
the Germans of the North and Northwest
to Fremont is enough to satisfy every man
that they are opposed to Southern insttu-
tons, and will vote and labor against them!
1t is an undeniable fact that the foreign
vote of the North is freesoil by vast ma
jority, more than three-fourths at the low
est estimate, and it is equally indisputable
that the tide of immigration is augmenting
this vote at fearfully rapid rate; and in
view of these facts what is the duty of the
South? Is it not by every legitimate and
constitutional means to curtail this increaS-
ing power? Is it not wisdom to dry up
this prolific source Of freesoil recruits2 Is
it not a solemn and imperative duty which
Southern men owe to their section and to
their most immediate and vital interests to
forget party and unite to crush out this de-
structive agency.