The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-02-15
Northern and Abolition Appeal to
Foreigners.

oisdli, auuressed stirrlig appear, day or two
before the recent election, to the foreigners OF
that city, urging them why they should oppose
nativism, and why they should favor Black Re-
publicanism. We quote from the latter portion
OF its article, that here in the South it may be
known, how abotionism relies upon the terri
BILE tide of foreign immigration to accomplish
its fell purposes. After averring that great
issue has come up, "W hich concerns personally
every free laborer and every friend of liberty,
who shall ever make his home on American
soil; an issue which stakes the very dignity of
Llbor for future centuries; which especially be-
longs to those who have suffered from oppres-
sion at home, and who have left their native land
for the sake of liberty, or to enjoy society and
Government where no stigma can ever be afhx-
ed to honest toll; he Issue OF Extension of Slav-
cry or Liberty" it says:
1--WE put it, then, under such supposition,
whether every German, with the soul OF a free
man in him should not cast aside all other ques-
tions and prejudces, and give his voice for
Freedom--freedom to labor on the soil of virgin
Empires by the side of freemen forever.
| are being realized in the present contest, and
still more to be in the National Elections ap-
| preaching, Cannot every enlightened foreigner
see that the interest of his emigrating country
men, and of the slaveholdng community, are
almost directly opposedl Whatever plants
Slavery in new Territory, it so far degrades
the rank of the foreigners. The slave humbles
the free faborer. Slavery curses most OF all
the middle class of working people, and finally
exterminates them. Our foreign emigration
must always be mostly of this class--of honest
laborers aud farmers with small means. They
never could buy slaves, if they would, to any
lexten,; and they are compelled either to strug-
Igle with Savery or to avoid it.
aThey do this latter: and the Western cur
rents-richer to a rev country than streams Of
glitterng gold-of hardy partisans and working
men, skirt like promontory the beautiful oak
g,ades and fields of Kentucky, and flow in wide
channels over the plains and prairies beyond.
The point before the people is, shall the rich,
broad empire, now on the border of civilization,
but hereafter to be the populous and anounding
centre of Continent OF States, be opened to
these industrious, hardy, free born labourers OF
Germany and other lands, where kindly homes
transpianted, and fee schools, and instructions
of liberty shall scatter their blessings over the
land; or shall they be shut out by the black bar.
rier of human bondage; honest toll replaced by
degrading servitude; arstocracy (of color ruling
instead of intelligence; and unrewarded, waste
full drudgery reaping the rich fruits which be.
onged to industry and economy! Is Kansas
. and all future Territory to be settled by Ger.
mans, by Swedes, by Englishmen, and Scotch
men, as free citizens and labourers, or by Negro
slavery and slave holding Aristocracy! Shal
the foreign born citizen or the slave-owner reaT
the rich crops which are to wave on the wide
savannahs of our Western Territories, Shal
. Labor-above all, the honor and hope of our i'm
igrant population-he honored or degraded 70
\ centuries to come, in these vast districts! Shal
Tyranny tn ut which ia other forms has mad,
the houored "Fatherland," with all her learning
and culture, shame and a disg-ace-cast he
blights and scatter new curses over these un
. trodden fields and forests! What German o
Swe'e, what En- lshmen or Irishmen, who ex
pets to live by honest labor. and who love
q Liberty as the free man should love it. has no
an interest in this question:
The above, remarks the Richmond Wing, al
luding to the same subject, is a most artfal an
d adroit appeal to foreigners against the South
and that the great bulk of that class of our pop
ulation will act upon the advice and suggestion
/. thas given, we little doubt Indeed, it is bt
+ coming, every day, more and more evident ths
he great danger to the South is to be locke
= for from a combination and fusion between tn
il Abolitionistssand foreigners. Such being tn
" fact, the duty Of the Southern States is man
d. fest enough--t is to insist upon not only as as
u sential modification, but it may be an entire n
peal of the naturalization laws.