Daily national Democrat., 1859-07-28


white laborers from Europe enabled the
Northern States who still adhered to the
policy of the fathers for freedom and free Ia
Dor, to take possession of all real northern
soil and beat the South, even below SO 80.
Thus defeated, the South turns in hatred
from the free emigration of Europe and the
North for the acquisition of territory and do
main, towards Cuba and the Central Ameri-
can States. And it is against their policy
now, in a double respect. They are willing
to cripple emigration from Europe to the
growth of the Northern States by trammel-
ling it with condition that no high-toned,
honorable foreigner will accept-a kind of
half citizenship-and thus confine emigration
to class so servie or criminal as to accept
an inferior status-and which class would be
worse for the North than the servile hordes
of Africa for the South, because they could
interfere with the government, and the slaves
could not And it is against their policy just
now, to irritate Europe upon any question of
unsettled right, but rather to voluntarily con
cede question that is a damage to them
selves, so that France, Prussia, Germany and
England may wink at their acquisition of
Cuba, from the palsied hands of Spain.
So far as America is concerned, it is a con-
tinental question. 1t is a contest betwixt
free institutions and free labor on the part of
the North and slavery and slave labor on the
part of the South. At this time the South
has the government, and as a matter of inter
est, wields it for her benefit 1t is advisablo
to look into this contest and see which will
succeed. There are only $50 900 slave hold
ers in the South. The poor whites among
them are, in gen aral, despised caste The
very negroes upon plantation despise the
white laborer that works with them, and treat
him as beneath themselves. There may be a
couple of million of them, and about 5000,
600 of slaves These are all the elements of
growth or expansion of the South. The
North consists of about 24,O0O,000 of free
white citizens, native and adopted, and they
have the advantage of the energizing inhu-
ence of cold climate, matter which settled
the fate of Europe and finally gave the
eifemnate and luxurated nations of the
South to the dominion of the more vigorous
sons of the North. 1t lis natural that it will
be so upon this continent; every finger of
manifestation points to that end and the north
will work out the destinies of this continent
What will the North do with this naturaiza-
tion question?
The Law of Nature demands the settlement
Of this new continent from the overplus pop
ulation of the old, and those settlers must be
come citizenized here. Repatriation becomes
necessity. Families must be reared here
homes must be recognized and guarded. The
domestic relations established and protected
Fathers and husbands must not be liable to
cxtradition nor to treason for defending their
country, their homes and iresides. The emf
grant settler from Europe must become a
citizen here, not mere fugitive from some
foreign power, bound to the soil like a serf of
Russia He must be an entire freeman =
Wherever the American flag goes, he must
have a right to 60 with it, or he cannot serve
in our marine, merchant, or naval Forces
Crossing under American arms into Canada,
or into Mexico, he must not be liable to be
SHOT as a traitor. But let us put this ques
tion to Euro pea few centuries ago and
Europe was wilderness. Then Asia, from
hox. oY,1 cto
gave off her surplus Phenecian and Iberian
types of population, and settled Europe
How absurd would it have been for those
Scythian, Siberian, Tartarian and Caucasian
nations to have said to the Russian, Scandi-
navian, Danubian, and the Teutonic nations
of Europe, "once a subject always a subject"
Though our people emigrate with our con
sent and settle your country, and indepen-
dent governments are indispensable to self
preservation and nationality, yet you are but
tributary and secondary to us. We claim
allegiance of you from the accident Of BIRTH
and if we catch you We will enforce it
Would not all Europe have risen in arms
against the tyrannical assumption, and will
not America if need be? All, she will.
The laws of progression in Nature required
Europe to discover and settle America, as
Asia found and settled Europe; and free and
independent governments are as much a ne
cessity of America as they ever were of Eu-
rope, to this day,
The next question is, how will the North
90 to work to retrieve and achieve her posi-
tion2 The State sovereignties must speak
out Each one of our northern States thro'
its elected representatives must demand of
| the Federal Government a reversal of the
Cass us non belli, and we must never rest un.
til by diplomacy or war we have washed out
that blackening insult and burning shame to
the shed blood Of the heroes of our Revou-
ton and the vietors of lSl2,-never rest un-
til we have appeased the nanes OF Kosciusko,
Pulaski, Sterling, DeKalb, Montgomery and
Lafayette, who devoted their lives that their
countrymen might become free and full citi-
zens here.
1t is an inalienable right of the people to
alter or abolish the form of their government,
yet Europe says "once a subject always a
subject Does she say that to Poland, to
Hungary, to Italy, or down-trodden Ireland ?
No, though Poles, Hungarians, Italians and
lrishmen were once subjects of their own
governments they are so, alas, no more
Their beloved dynastes and princes have
passed away, and now they are even depriv-
ed of nationality rs Americans. The Jews
were once the subjects of the dynas ties of
Judah and Benjamin-"once subject always
a suhject'-alas, they now bend their necks
to the yoke of every tyrant on earth. Per-
haps most unhappily does this thunder.bolt
fall upon our Irish adopted citizens. They
number by the million and they love liberty
to dolatry and are half frantic for nationality
ireland that has given off so many bril-
! iants of statesmanship and heroic gallantry.