The national Republican., 1868-12-30

pride ofeastc, the spirit Of revenge and hatred OF
equality ofrights before the law, aud In every
day transactions OF life, would exterminste
those who differ politically from the majority
surrounding them. or what force defective.
ness) 10 s''moral suasion" at the South, as con-
sidercd by the lights OF the oovernmenrs ex.
pericnce Of the last seven years In that SEQ
tion' What Is It worth In Crawford county,
Indianai
The writer Is among those who believe that
our Government must speedily bo changed,
unless corruption be weeded out Of the admin
istration ofits affairs. II that be not done, In
less than twenty-five years II bids fair to fall
to pieces from innate rottcnnoss and tho ineo-
hesion OF utter ineffieiency.
A new element Ia about to be brought prom
inently into our public and private Affairs,
which threatens vast danger to the character
OF our governmental system as originally
framed. I refer to immigration, in proper.
tions from ten to q hundred fold greater, an
nually, than those In which Il has so far
sought our shores. The completion Of the Pa.
eihc railroads will soon make our manner OF
dealing with immigration as well known In
Asia as at this time throughout Europe; and
also the solid advantages to the immigrant our
country offers. The history Of two thou.
sand years teaches how the Asiatie people
emigrste, when once in motion to that end.
They Will come, not by hundreds, as, so far,
Europe has been sending Us her surplus popu.
lation, but by tens, II not hundreds Of thou.
sands.
In the meantime all signs point to the fact
that European emigration to the North Amer.
lean Continent 10 also shortly to Increase 10
vast proportions. The upshot will be that In
very few years immigration to the United
States may be measured only by the then ex.
isting means for its transportation hithcr.
ward. New nationalities, Of which not one
American In a hundred as yet know aught
will come among us almost in the strength and
force OF nations. They will bring with them
the idcss, prcjudices, and habits OF thousand
years isolation from other people; elements
OF dlscord and turmoil pregnant with dire
consequences to US, II not guarded against by
Government action to force thorough diffusion
of the coming immigration as IL reaches our
shores. Means, too, must be taken either to
prevent the advent of the criminal and disso-
Lutte classes from Europe or to hold them iu
| check. otherwise our cities will have to be
well-nigh wholly given up to them. What bui
their presence in New York 10 such undue
proportions has consigned the affairs OF that
great capital almost wholly to the keeping o.
men who SHOULD be rlghtfully In State pris
onsi 1t is the vice, brutality, and ignorance
pervadins so large portion OF the foreigr
element OF New York's voting population tina
make It but foeks OF sheep In the exercise o
the right of suffrage; always, too, with vil'
men for the "shepherds." Thousands and ten
of thousands there arc ready to vote, by ns
tionalities, for anybody or anything dictate
to them by their leaders; though the latte
may be among the most noted criminals OF tn
! land.
The question is, will the country submit
, have the state OF things existing in New Yor
a In connection with the foreign vote, and II
practices Of the worst classes Of the immigr
tion that dwells there, Incorporated with, I
p | rather In control Of the local society and q
fairs Of every portion Of the United State
y Such, II not speedily guarded against by stri
gent laws, vigorously carried out, is to be a
: inevitable incident OF the coming immigr
! tion.