Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-09-22

public the fact that the people OF the North were
most active in bringing slaves to the country: that
States prolonged the Slave trade; and the same
States opposed. and still oppose, the tide Of imm-
er,sioa iron Europe which has swept Slavery out
Of the North, while the South has always favored
the policy of inviting the European to our Shores
although it has given the North its preponderance
Of political power.
We copy the above paragraph from speech re-
Gently delivered in the Democratic State Convcn-
ton Of New York, by Horatio Seymour, di'tin-
suished aud influential member Of the party.
The Address Of Mr.. Seymour was an appeal
against the principles and practices Of the Repub-
lcsn psrty-and, it will be observed, he lays par
tcular stress upon the sct that this party cannot
really be the friend of Freedom" inasmuch as it
opposes the immigration Of Foreigners whose COM
ing has Swept slavery out Of the North"
Mr. Seymour however, is mistaken as to tho
position Of parties. The Republican party, per
sc. has never been opposed to the immigration of
foreigners When the party was first organized.
there was an inclination that way-but the more
sagacious leaders Of it, such as Seward, Greedy.
Webb and Weed, foresaw that the Republican
party would be largely the gamer from the en-
enlargement Of foreign immigration They fore
saw that the supply Of foreign labor in the Terri
tories of the West, would supersede the necessity
for slave labor. They knew, what Mr.. Seymour
now admits, that it was the influx Of foreigners
which had swept slavery from the North y
They knew, moreover, thai very large proper
ton Of these foregners-includng nearly all the
Germans and Scandnav ians-would he found ar
rayed in the ranks of their anti-sa'ery party
From the very first, the more sagacions and far
seeing Of the Republican leaders refused To unto
in the crusade against foreigncrs-and the event
has justified the policy of their course. The Black
Republican ascendancy in Michigan. WISCONSIN,
Iowa, and Minnesota, is undoubtedly due To tho
foreign population in their midst
But, we call attention tn the spirit in which Mr..
Seymour makes these remarks Evidently, no
considers it matter Of boast that slavery has
been swept from the North"--for he reproaches the
Republican party with their opposition to tho for
eign influences by which this result has beer ci-
fected. lie would, for himself, encourage policy
the immigration of foreigncrs-for the very rcar
son that it has swept slavery from the NORTH
Yet Mr.. Seymour is one of those National Demo
cruts of whose fidelity to the South We hear 80
much praise. This is one of those true and tr usty
Northern allies, of whom the Southern Democ racy
are continually making such boast. How d" our
Southern Democratic friends like the picturcY-
How do they relish the doctrine of distngn shed
Northern lender of the party who announces, by
the broadcast implication that he is ia favor Of the
immigration of foreigners, because they have
swept slavery from the North ?" Do our South
ern Democratic friends place their opposition to
Know Nothingism upon the same ground?
We have all along maintained'rha the doc trines
of the American party ough, to be universally ac
cepted at the Son,h Ivy people OF all classes and
crecds-and for the very reason which Mr.. Sey
mour mentions-namely, that the foreign popula-
ton in the North hns given that section 1.-The pre-
ponderance of political power Mr. Seymour
would encourage immi grafton for this sufficient
reason-we oppose it for the Identical same reason
But upon what grounds do the Southern Dcmocra-
CIV place their encouragement of immigration!
With these results before them-with these admis-
sions of Mr. Seymour, and which are facts whether
he had admitted them or not) we ask why it is that
the Southern Democracy are so bitter and unrc-
lentiug in their hatred Of Know NothnSi'm? |
they are. as they proclaim themselves to be, tn"
peculiar guardians of slavery, why is it that they
faser policy which is weakening slavery, an'
building up antslavery. every day and year
their lisesf
We attribute their course, doubt not, to the
right motive when we say thnt their opposition
to the American party was not on account OF its
principles, bat on account Of the prospect which
the party had of displacing the Democracy in tho
possession Of power. That was all. 1t was the
ahreatened divorce frmn ther beloved spos of office
which excited their dire apprehension, and caused
them to expend the bitterest and most malignant
abuse upon us Of which any party was ever the re-
cipient After the South has been overwhelmed
by the practical ,preponderanee Of the North"
as Mr.. Scymourexpresses it-after the North has
full possession of every department Of tho Gov
ernment--and these results are TO DO due to
the foreign elemont-we suppose little justice
will then be done to the conservative sentiments
and intentions of the American party. The De
mocracy will then suffer for the double crime
having lost the south and Of having postponed
the interests Of their seetian in the Union to their
inordinAte craving for the possession of power in
the Southern States.
LANCASTER (Pa.,) Sept l5.-The Lancaster
county democratic convention Hr John X. Raub
presiding, nominated James n. Hopkins for Con-
gpess from the 9lh district by aoclsnaton. lie
made speech on accepting the nomination, taking
ground sganst sectional political strife and aboli-
tionsSn, and in favor Of the admission of Kansas
without reference to her population. lie was al
in favor If such tariff as would put every iron
furnace in the country in blast.
The celebrated =. Y. Barnum among the other
achievements Of his peutus established in his