Southern shield., 1857-06-27
ALIEN VOTING.

be allowed to vote" is particularly dangerous to the interests of the coun. try. It exalts the negro, and alien and mulatto, to the same level with tht native-born citizens. We are equally indebted to the Democracy and Re. publicanism for making this detesta- ble doctrine practicable. But 1t is ot the foreigner and alien that we now design to speak. When with an un- biased mind we reflect upon the in- creaslhg lmni5t 5tost; e,,- nf foToisnArs tr this country, the deleterous influence they exert upon our government we are forcibly and powerfully impressed with the necessity of some change-ol some just, judicious, conservative, re- stricting element which while it vii neither prescribe nor destroy the rights of citizenship, will protect our insti- tutions, and preserve them from for eign corruptions.
 Hundreds and thousands of the for eigners that are hourly and daily ar irving upon our shores are either fu- gitives from justice or the dregs of so- ciety at home, trained up in ignorance, and kept in the most abject degrada- tion and poverty, under the influence of unwholesome laws :; paupers, also, who are denied the means of existence at home, are sent to our country to be fed and clothed by the charities of a free people, whose confidence they abuse, and whose institutions and laws they declare boldly to be opposed to their feelings and principles of gov ernment. This is the class of persons whc' are permitted to vote before they have been naturalized.
 In order to show that we do not speak at random, we will give few startling facts facts that we trust to God every Southern man will ponder upon and consider long and well. The immigration of foreigners to the Unit ed States prior to the year 1900, was only 5000 to 5000 year from 1900 to 1910 1000 a year; from 1910 to 1920, II ,000 y'r; from 1920 to 1880, 5000 a year from 1880 to 184O, 57 ,O00 year; from 1840 to 1850, 167 ,0OO a year and since 1850it has risen to the enormous number of from 300,O ,O00 to over oUO, ,UUO a year, and will, no doubt very speedy reach a million year. Where do the major ity of these foreigners settle With the exception of few who wander of and settle in the wilds of Texas, they turn westward and locate upon our prairies and frontiers. They there, true to their natures, shout lustily for unqualified liberty to all men of every hue, fuse with Abolitionists, and thus take up arms against portion of our common heritage, and shout defiance to the constitution which protects them, their rights, and gives them homes.
 By an examination of the census of 1850 it will be found that the whole number of foreigners, at present in the United States, old enough to vote, is nearly equal to all the natives in the Southern States, male and female, old and young, is 5000, ,000, whites in the Northern States is 13, ,000, ,000.- The number of foreigners who settle yearly in the North and West, are enough to admit a new free State ev- cry year, and yet the democracy-the pure old conservative democracy of the South can only serve their country best when they shriek in doleful, ago. nizing strains, "l To the poor foreign er." When will this keen dagger, aimed at self,' cease its vengeance Is there not, in all conscience, foe more worthy of an open field combat than one which brings comfort, and shouts triumph in the ears of foe opposed to Southern institutions? l. the South as a country with might and majesty of power, fallen so low that her enemies may abuse and trample upon her with lmpunity? Is she SC lost to a sense of shame, and virtue and of right, that when the dagger is at her heart, she will tamely submit without an effort at relief? We will not believe it-our duty is plain-unite with and assist the establishment of American principles and all will be well.
 This question of alien suffrage is one of vast moment to the people of the South.
 The South has a great social insti- tuition that is intimately interwoven with her destiny. By the advocacy of alien and free negro suffrage you as- sail and threaten that institution. Jno. c. Calhoun, in speech delivered in the United States Senate years ago, denounced the policy and justice of al- lowing aliens to vote anywhere in the country. He said that suffrage and citizenship are corelative terms, and cannot exist, and then in patriotic and luminous argument proves that no State can make an alien citizen. This is the doctrine which should be adopted by every good citizen every