Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-08-11
Foreigners and the South.

The evidence is conclusive that the mass of
naturalIzed citizens in the free States, and es-
pecially the Germans, have allied themselves
with the Black Republican movement, in the
war upon the institutions and rights Of the
South. The Democratic press of the slave
States are obliged TO conceal this fact from
their readers-because they well understand
that the effect of such information would be
to commend Americanisln to all parties in the
South.
We have before us letter from Frederick
| Hecker, a German ElectOr of the Fremont
party in Illinois, in which be excuses himself
on account of sickness for having failed to at
tend an anti~Nebraska meeting at Belleville,
and proceeds to say:
$50 soon as | am able to move about-
though my health may not be fully restored
shall speak to the people of st. Clair and ad-
joining Counties on the question of the day,
and shall demonstrate TO the best of my abili.
ties, that the honor of the German name and
of the German nation, and the hatred of aris
tocrstic arrogance and tyranny, make it TIL
sacred and imperative duty efeUery German O.
enter the lists against sLarery and sIaUeOcraey."
Gustavus Strive and Lorenzo Brentano, the
compatriots of Hecker, have likewise declared
for Fremont and Dayton. -.
Ted much of his time TO writing a Universal,
History, several volumes of which have al
ready left the press, has addressed a letter to
the German citizens, dated Dobbs' Ferry, July
Is, in which he urges them to aid the cause o
RepublicaDsm by voting for Fremont and
Dayton. lie says:
Z" Ii is a fact that Fremont and the Republi
can party strive to make Kansas free State,
whil-t Buchanan and his party are lsboring to
make it q slave State. The fate of Kansas will
be shared by Nebraska, Washington and Ore
gan. Should slavery gain Kansas, the other
territories will also be lost to freedom, and the
prepOnderance of the shareholders will then be
so great that the Southern aristocracy will be
able to domneer over the North rs they now
do over the South.
"Be not deceived, dear friends In the
pending contest slavery is the paramount issue.
True il is net to DO decided whether freedom
or slavery shall solely exist in this country,
but il is question concerning the restriction
or extension of slavery.
"For the extension of slavery no real oppns
nent OF despotism can vote The worst form
in which despotism appears is slavery. Louis
Napoleon aud The Austrian Emperor do not
deprive their subjects of personal liberty-they
never sell men, women and children at public
auction"
We have more than once called attention
to the fact that the Northern States owe their
preponderance in the Union, and their capaci-
" to Cypress and trsmple on the South, to the
hordes of foreigners who have taken up their
abode in that section. BY nature and educa-
ton hostile to slavery, and unwilling to come
into competition with slave labor, nine tenths
of the immigrants settle in the free States,
adding to their representation in Congress, or
in the Territories, which they contribute to-
wards making free States. Thus it is that the
balance of power between the sections has
been lost, and that the North, presumng upon
the brute force of numbers, dares to disregard
the compromises and requirements of the Con-
stitution, aud degrade the slaveholdng States
TO positions of inferiority and dependence. Till
lately, the democratic party, by caressing and
favoring foreigners, have managed to keep
most OF them in their own ranks-but an OPP
portunity being now afforded 10 give expires.
sion to their unconquerable aversion to slave
~, and grown bold in proportion to their
strength, they do not hesitate 10 array them
selves under the black banner of sectionalisin,
and fall into ranks with those whose object is
TO overthrow the Institution OF slavery aud i'm
pose upon the people of the South system OF
government and society TO which they are ut
terly averse. What then does il become the
people OF the South to dR There cannot be
two opinions among sensible and impartial
men. They should regard foreignsIn as the
great reservoir from which the turbid stream
Of abolitiouisln is ted. They should look upon
Immigration and the naturalization laws as
they stand, AS the soil and seed out of which
the greal upas tree of anti-slavery fanaticisIn
has sprung. And they should apply the rem
edy acCor dinghy. They should at once and inn
perativeiy demand . thorough revision and
modification of the laws by which foreigners
are Admitted into the cOuntry-becone con-
stiIaehD il the superintendent of representa-
tiun--shd are converted into citizens of the
United States. They should hot permit uleir
natural and hereditary rights under the gov
srnment 20 be neutrslized sud nullifird by the
masses of foreign ignorance and viciousuess
and sickened stomach of Europe. They should
demand that their inheritance Of self-govern-
meni, and the privilege OF enjoying and trans.
uniting the immemorial customs aud inslitu-
lions of their fathers sail not be made TO de.
pend upon the favor and indulgence Of intru
sise and prejudiced strangers. We cannot take
away the privileges that have been already
granted 10 Foreigners, but We eau prescribe
the conditions upon which other foreigners
may become citlxens. IL Is because We are
citizens Of the S0uth, and frieBds 10 the insti
tutioa OF slavery, thai We desire 10 see our
laws in this respect altered and amended.-
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