Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-06-19

FoR THE AMERICAN oRaAx.
Immigration--iIs Evils and Consequences.
"To immigration we are indebted In no small de-
gree for the rapid addition OF State after State to
the Confederacy."
This is proposition laid down in pamphlet
recently published at the Washington UnioD ONCE,
which assumes that our present condition, com
mercal greatness, wealth. annual revenues and ex-
tensve public domain are entirely due TO foreign
| immigration.
| To sustain this naked assumption, the author
has admitted all the evils and consequences which
| we as Americans claim the results OF immigra-
ton. We propose now TO meet the anti-American
| party on its own platform, rs embodied In the
above quotation from the pamphlet, entitled,
" Immigration into the United States Of America,
published BY A. o. p. Nicholson, and circulated
throughout the country by the Immortal seven
| ty-four." go s.
sisters Of the Republic have been hasteped to wo-
manhood by foreign immigration, but we claim
that this very fact is serious evil, and that there
/ must necessarily flow from il results which will
ultimately subvert our republican institutions. IL
as claimed and conceded by us, the new States are
indebted to their foreign population for the requi
site population to entitle them to admission into
| the Union, it is clear that the immigrant popula-
ton congregate in sufficient numbers in certain
Il
| formation of these new States. This the anti
Americans have heretofore uniformly denied. The
| great defence Of the foreign party has been that
the foreigners were thoroughly diffused through
out the whole country that their influence upon
our elections was not perceptible IL it be true
that we are indebted to immigration for the rapid
addition of State after State to the Confederacy,
as Mr.. Nicholson claims, and we willing to ad-
NIT it, then it is indisputably true that the origi
4 lie - kbo4
were diffused and scattered throughout the coun
try is utterly untenable. We have said it was un.
tenable, we will prove it to be untrue.
| At page 1913, (DeBows compendium of the Tth
census) is to be found the following table.
1880. Inthe Middle In large Ratio per cent
States. cities. 10 whole.
uIatonn .9el.7le sse 400 as.7s
4 German and
Prussians. 5s3.774 2l2.55s s6.4s
| The doctrine of diffusion is thus proven TO be
entirely untrue. But the anti American party with
| their usual shrewdness and chicanery now attempt
to twist the Justification Of their original defence
into virtue and have set up the defence that for
| eigners congregate in the organized Territories In
sufficient numbers to control the Territory, erec
them into States and thus rapidly add Estate afte
State to the confederacy,"" very WE'LL We admit thi
and now for IT'S Analysis
i AT page LOO, OF WORK entiueu, Immigration, its
evils and consequences by 8. G. Busey of this
| city, we find the following
"The immigration Of 1854 would settle an area Of
Territory as dersely as Arkansas, which would
make two States equal in area to the State Of Ar,
kansas, and consequently be entitled to four rep.
resentatives in Congress; it would likewise make
four equal to California and be entitled to eight
representatives two and-a-half equal to Iowa. ant
be entitled to FIVE representatives.
Again, the immigration Of 1854 is greater thar
the aggregate Of the population of Rhode Island
and Wisconsin, which two States have five rep
resentatives in Congress. The effect of immigra
ton upon the National Legislature may be further
exemplifed by dividing the immigration of 1856
BY the ratio Of representation it viii give FIVE as
the number of representatives, and ii the aggre
gate of the immigration for the years 81, 49, 49,
"a, which is 1881 ,276, be taken, it win give II al
the number Representatives, due to immigration
were new apportonment now made
The immigration of 1884 properly distributed, il
sufficient to give to each Of the seven organized
Territories the requisite population TO entitle then
to admission into the Union as States"
| II is seen from this that the American and anti
American take precisely the same view Of the pro
position, both contend that foreign immigration
contributes to the political power, and by 80 doinf
acquire political influence. The anti-AmericaI
claims as defence of his policy, that the /" rapid
addition of State after State to the Confederacy,
is due to immigration, the American demonstrates
the truth of the proposition with undenable facts
| What then is the issue The Americans claim tina
the very existence Of these facts, causes o
alarm and apprehension, and that the poltica
power and privileges of foreigners should be curtail
ed before the number ofStates thus rapidly added
the COnfedcracy should be so great to control alb
solutely the National Legislature for II foreigner
cont oil majority Of. the States they must contro
Congress and the government. This is an eviden
conclusion from the facts as agreed upon by boil
parties but the anti-American attempts again Il
escape from this irresistible conclusion by settins
up the " doctrine of diffusion"
Both parties are then agreed upon the PROPOSE
ton that foreign immigration rapidly adds State
after State to the Confederacyn Do not foreign
ers, then, rapidly acquire political powers Ths
immigration of 1854 was equal to the population
of Rhode Island and Wisconsin sufficient to settl,
two States which would be entitled to FIVE Repre-
sentatives in the House of Representatives and fou
Senators. The immigration since 1850 is sufficient
to settle SEVENTEEN States, each entitled to on,
Representative and two Senators, in ALL thirty-fou
i Senators. Win any one deny that these thirty
four Senators, representing seventeen States, peo
pied with foreigners exclusively, would not endan
ger the permanency of the governments This i,
no highly drawn picture, but the inevitable conclu
sion from facts as agreed upon by both parties
and is it not time that danger so imminent shoul
be avertedf Let the patriotic pause and refec
upon these plain suggestions We will next re
view the doctrine of diffusion.
Republican Convention-SecOnd Day.
Gen. Webb Of New York, opposed balloting a
present
Ex-Governor Kent, Of Maine, followed on tn