New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-09-26

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l.l Il ssssling Western Tsxas, and
IVY Y n|z "a SSIry feeling prevailed among
NJ NV ~ ~ " asl hostility against them, nor
Z < SlAn II well. behaved foreigners.
nj Sf Z 4 " ahoNs NJ great danger that ffee
taut Nv b builk mp on our sootie
f. thus placing our institution Of fslayery
Ii " ltn tD be assaIled ID mont and rear, and that
sOcalled National Democratic party aids and
~ the movement and shuts III eyes 70 the danger
induced thereto solely BY the temporary advantage Of
obtaining The large foreign yots Of the State. AZ We
have already stated, the intensity Of the Kansas ex
ctement for long time past has caused this more
important question to b overlooked by the mass Of
the Southern people, but We trust it may not be over
looked until too late to avert the impending misfor
tune.
II, - contemporary would have us believe our
infpmAon regarding the character Of the population
OF Western Texas b incorrect, we should be highly
gratiied to be convinced that We were in error. We
hased our opinion in the matter partly upon the
numerous arrivals Of vessels loaded with immigrants,
It the different ports Of Texas for several years past
which we have seen announced in the Galveston and
Indianola papers. Not unfrequently the influx has
reached two or three thousand in single month"; and
We distinctly remember seeing not long since the
announcement Of the arrival at Indianola Of seven
hundred Poles In one shipment, nearly all Of whom
settled together on the San Antonio river in Bexar
county We have reason 70 believe, nor can il be
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states of the Union, slave free, can in any manner
equal this.
We are assured by reliable persons, familiar with
the affairs and history Of the Lone Star State for
years back that tho increase Of foreign native
population, ~ immigration, is more than three or
four to one and looking at the results Of recent cleo
tions there and at abundant other evidence, we con-
slider this estimate under rather than above the mark
Aud from the same source, we learn that there is
scarcely county in Western Texas in which the
foreign yote j. not very formidable element, while
ii he counties of Coma, Medina and Gillespie, the
German vote largely preponderates. In the county
of Bexar which gives the largest vote Of any in the
State, the Germans and Mexicans constitute about
twothirds 0 the voting population. In the counties
of Cameron, Hidalgo, Star, Webb, Kinney and Ell
Pasc, which lie along the Rio Grande, the Mexican
vote i greatly in the majority, and we may add is
oen suddenly and mraculousy increased on election
days By fresh imporatons from the other side of that
famous river. OF courseno one will for an instant
4 stop to question what party polls this enormous
foreign vote ninetenths Of which is just illegal
il those who cast it had never set foot upon Ameri
can soil. E Paso county (almost wholly Mexican)
cas 800 votes in the recent Gubernatoral election Of
which RunDels, the Democratic candidate, received
4 7S5, and Houston Is.
There ii very large foreign vote in the ecountes Of
Nueces San Patricio Goad and Atascoss, in several
! Of them amounting TO quite one half About two
yearsago very intelligent German resident Of San
Antonio estimated the number of his countrymen
West os the Colorado al thirty thousand During
the period that has elapsed since that time, the immi
| grafton has been immensely greater than at any
previous time, and has been steadily increasing.
These facts show that European and Mexican i'm.
migrants comprise . very large proportion Of the
voting population Of Western Texas, and it is pre-
posterous to deny this that the foreign population
is rapidly increasing. ,a5,i.lt.
Now if il can be shown that this population is re-
liable on the slavery question: that it is true to the
South, and will not, so soon as it becomes sufficiently
strong, move for the division of Texas and the
struction of free State out of the Western portion
we shall be perfectly content and will have nothing
more to say upon the subject Or, it will satisfy
4 to know that the emigration from other Southern
States to Western Texas is sufficiently great to keep
in check this rapidly increasing antislavery senti
ment, and take good care Of the future interests
that fertile and beautiful region" But we prefel
facts and figures to mere assertion, and we vel
satisfied that the threat Of making Western Texas
free State was never intended as vain and idle one
It has been predicted by Southern men that i
Kansas should be admitted into the Union as fret
! State, Missouri and Texas, oyershadowed by the i'm
! mediate presence Of Black Republicanism and con
tinualy suffering from its encroachments, would bt
compelled to abolish slavery. We apprehend, how
ever that in the case Of the latter State the DANCE
of such consummation may much more reasonabl.
be ascribed to the sentiments and prejudces of it
foreign population, many of whom openly avow thei
dislike Of the peculiar institution"