Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-07-05
Alarming Statistics.

days paper, IN Whlch tneFe are Aacts pre-
sented which cannot fail to elicit his most
serious consideration, particularly if he
is a Southern man and has a proper re-
gard for the interests Of the South, in
connection with the interests, happiness
and prosperity of the Union.
The article alluded to is an extract
from Senator Adams speech, on his bill
to amend the Naturalization Laws. The
facts set forth in that extract, which are
taken from Government statistical tables,
Cannot be too often repeated. 1t is there
shown, that by the census of 1850 there
were nearly five hundred thousand more
persons residing in the slave States, who
were horn in the free States, than those
born in the slave and residing in the free
States; but notwithstanding this flow of
emigration South from among the native
born North, there was an increase of fif-
ty-four Representatives in favor of the
North, from 1880 to 1880, and seven of
that number were gained in the last ten
years Here is the fact presented, that
notwithstanding the vast number of ma
tive citizens North who annually seek
homes in the South, while there is COM
paratiyely no emigration from South to
North, there is a rapid increase of rep
resentation in Congress in favor of the
North How is this? asks the unrefect-
ing mind. 1t is a matter easily explain
ed. BY the apportionment of 1880, a
certain given number of inhabitants I'VE
believe it is thirty thousand) is entitled to
one Representative in Congress. There
fore, every thirty thousand emigrants who
settles in the country are entitled to one
representative, and we all know that
twenty make their homes North and West
while one settles South. Now it is shown
by this extract alluded to, that so great
has been the increase of emigration into
the Northern States from Europe, lob
tanned from the statistical table giving the
foreign population in those States that
the foreigners North are at this moment
represented by twenty-fouF members in
the House Of Representatives, while the
foreigners South are only entitled TO four
members for the reason that there are so
many more foreigners North than South.
Eighteen of these twenty-four. Tor the
immigration entitled to that number of
representatives. arrived in the United
Suites between 1910 and 1850, fifteen
North and three South, being a gain to
the North in ten years of twelve from i'm
miguatinn~nIore4 and bur Tor TINS immI-
grafton, as the statistics show, the South
would have gained FIVE on the Morrill,
Now, this gain III representation North
over the South, through emigation, would
not be a matter Of any concern probably,
IN a sectional sense, but for the alarming
fact that all foreigners settled in the free
States are inlmical to the institution of
Slavery, and that their representatives in
Congress most faithfully reflect their SEN
timents, Us proved by the election of
Banks to the Speakership. If any other
evidence was required to show the feel
ings ef Northern foreigners towards the
South, We would point to the recent ac-
ton of the Germans in Missouri, Ohio,
Illinois and other States, (nine-tenths of
whom are laborers and working men,)
who have come out en- massee for Free
mont! What is said of one class of la
borers in this respect can be said of ano.
Their.
But the extract shows features still
alarming. Government statistics
US that 1,72l, 526 emigrants ar.
in. the United States within the last
five years, being an average of 344,528
per n u Should this emigration con-
in the same ratio for the next five
years, says Mr.. Adams, the apportion-
ment of 1860 would give a gain of
twenty- four members from immigration
and in fifteen years they will have
than two-thirds of the members of
The House of Representatives, and could
give the necessary vote to alter the Con-
stitutionI Is there a man, with these
of facts before him, who can doubt
hat such a vote win be made when that
lime a%rriyes9 Fifteen or twenty years,
he n, from the present, is about the extent