Washington telegraph., 1856-06-04
From tie Louisville Journal
FOREIGN IMEIGRATTON
ITS EFFECT UPON THE SOUTH.

- N--~N- O- upon
the peculiar insti utions of the South, is
d subject for the gravest consideration OF
the people of the Southern States. To
the vast number of foreigners yearly and
monthly and weekly and daily swarming
into our maritime ports to seek homes in
our midst, may be justly attributed the
constantly increasing strength of the free
soil party, which is now preparing practi-
cally to exclude every foot Of federal ter
ritory outside of the District of Column
bIa, to hem In the States in which negro
slavery exists by Gordon of new States
rom which slavery viii be forever excIu-
ded and eeaselessly to keep up the agita-
tion OF the slavery question by political
parties to the imminent danger of the dis
solution Of the Union and the destruction
of our Republican Institutions.
The vast immigration of foreigners to
the number of nearly half a million a wear
is to be dreaded, because, as was said by
Thomas Jefferson, in his Notes on Virgin
IA, in 1881, "they bring with them the
principles of the governments which they
leave, imbibed in early youth, or else
throw them OF in exchange for an un-
bounded licentiousness" Sharing with
US the legislation of the country. they.
as Mr.. Jefferson said, '.infuse into it their
spirit, warp and bias its directions. and
render 1t 4 heterogeneous, incoherent. and
distracted mass" Alr. Jefferson and his
contemporaries considered only the IA
sons why this immigration was inexpedi-
ent fer the whole country at time when
the number Of foreign immigrants was on
! ly some 1000 year. At present. when
the amount Of foreign Immigration is more
than a hundred times as great as it was
when Mr. Jefferson wrote his "Notes on
! Virginia" ii is for the same general rea-
sons a hundred times more Objectionable
/ than 1t was then; and moreover there are
| particular reasons why it should be siren
uOusly discouraged by all the people of the
/ Southern States. While we are willing
TO extend to the foreigners who may here
after come among US a safe refuge from
! monarohical tyranny, the right to acquire
and to hold property, and to protect them
/ IN their lives, their persons, their posses
siOns, and the exercise of their religion.
/ 1t is clearly demonstrable that the South
should seriously, promptly, and unani-
mously insist that they shall not be per
mitted to share in our legislation, at least
until they shall have become fully and
certainly qualified to appreciate the spir-
1t OF our republican institutions and to
understand the delicate machinery of cur
Government
Nine hundred and ninety-nine out of
every thousand of these foreigners come
among US imbUed with irremovable preju-
dices against the institutions of negro
slavery. The few of them who find homes
in the Southern States boldly organ
ize themselves into Abolition societies.
like those Of the Free German Republi-
cans Of Richmond, Va, and louisville.
Ky, which are auxiliaries of parent as
sociation Of a similar character in the
North, sedulously exerting themselves to
drive out slavery from the States in which
they happen respectively to settle, as they
are now doing in Texas Nine-tenths,
however, Of this foreign immigration, goes
to swell the population Of the North and
contributes to the strength of the party
there. composed of the fercest, most fanat-
zeal, most reckless and most relentless alb
olitionists. For several years past the
number of foreigners coming into the
country has increased in almost geometri-
cal progression. The number of them ar
irving now in single year is sufficient to
furnish population for ten States equal
to Florida, and while this immigration
continues, at this rate, under the opera
ton of the ''squatter sovereignty" prin-
ciple of the Kansas Nebraska act, ten
Freesoil States, entitled to 20 Senators in
the United States Senate and 10 members
Of the lower House of Congress, may ap-
/ ply for admission into the Union every
year, so long as territory remains out of
which new States may be erected. Already
the foreigners, in a number of the States,
hold the balance of power between politi-
/ cal parties, and actually control the cleo
tions, and, in little while, through the
| systematic Efforts which have been begun hy
an organized association of Northern Abo
/ ltion fanatics to induce foreign Immigrants
70 settle Immediately in the unoccuped Fed
eral Territories, cur very worst calculations
may be realized, and the immediate repre-
,en;atives Of foreigners in the Senate and
/ Congress of the United States may net on
! ly hold the balance of power there, but ac-
tualiy outnumber the representatives, of the
native horn citizens in both branches of cur
National Legislature. Then farewell TO our
republican institutions ,--farewell to the
rights of The South, to the Constitution and
the Union, The miserable red republican
radleaIism announced in the platforms of
the Free German Republicans will be speed
ily substituted COR our present system OF
government The prayers of the people
of the Southern States to be let alone in
the possession of their property, and in
/ the exercise of their rights, recognized by
the Constitution, viii be scornfuily reject
ed. Anarchy and distraction viii take
the place OF government and order \
merciless prescription Of native-born eiti-
zens will be instituted Our great, glori-
ous and prosperous Union will be rent in
fragments, and, amid the shouts of victo-
~ from Popes and potentates in the Old
I! World. our temple of liberty will be shiv-