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TTOftaoMp|;Waytm«9gWElt;i-CQBtimiedl t^USi Mlt;MW-N^Ip'’ wsome rrnsoMjlu our wftfraser Marn, or ojir creed, •c«lloN«^refn bear ibc pi represented, ai class of popolalioi dangerous lo ©or iottihflions »ml liberties That btUef vri would not hesitate to »*ov»:WlW.' /TOMf 5d’y**r w ■ ip£*. I Iffecrt etient if aol etffirety, dieMed,!-*!-!own, thou; !iS« •how uj «migr«lio» ofi .ig«l .,,4 p.lut.k ad. 1 he ili.b ut Mt' frpkh Gr«* t Britain’nnd nl*niS} tf * fiSCal to tile Kngli ;h, norfth© RngJi»h t© 36* TO qfcfoe ^ UnHwJ j tts Fretfojjf, nor tl-a French to the tlkr-kt ijjpans. $Jkeif diflV cnees, m regards ptnfeearfjmajylMR^ jf i*Jf or ihrae-fowrlhs, of OvP^Tttifepopil*talioh'were of foreign birth, fcttlJ»a'3rhWPtWfentihlF of a' proportion « v.«tji leti ftfa'That.'tsis actually the case. Let us iww look hL. Ihii subject a moment .iu t'ac light of .eclualeml relative numbers In a circular jpubljtmed by the Executive Committee of the. Am. H. Missionary Society. iq the year, i342, the following melts are pul forth as embodying of « Tesy; star ll fog,char act or Frcm the year jl82o to 1837, (Wo-3 0? a' million' of people, from 'Great in end Ireland o]oi)e, emigrated, to• A^enc.t; and at least UaT:a million ofthe:j*trwinticoatfound their wsj: to the United Stales e .tome : jioriodat leaVt a third vf the !»_ emigrated . to this country ( from ich and Cdjrtnnn ports; so that in ihir-; years, ending in 1837, there arrived Dg us Trttof^-than 800,000 persons torn reign lands- Add to thi-so those yet-g, ivho cjjnie hera before .1925, and’inters who have arrived since11837, and ths total amount cannot be lessa million! and it quarter. Making nil tvanif fur those who have died sinceulifThey lid dI lt;*!,wlt;fj|d hi»e b^tn dLypos^i to Ultima cc-rdial''v-elcdliie. tVe, who are so prone to boast our English exrmctfop, wliat is there in thu name of English mao, or Scotchman, ot Irishman,' ihat wo need he afraid of £ pi tppleoq wis accustomed to trail theWsupe.-ior to' any ether people _rts' The wdrld except Hie French, and ih mnjiy instance*- they proved superior to «vjn thenj The paragraph which we quitted, undoubtedly,, made i. rough gui-.-u, or severali iirijioHant -atiittltes in figuring, th» foundation Tlt; the atafomeol that half • tmllfon hftd come over from thiwe countries in 121 years. But1 we admit t he state-meal for the purpose of argument, sod also the (enjoined statement, ,that there arc •pmpdfely not lea* haq a million of persons ot jbrergn birth now in this count ry. Our slate population out-number* them three to ione- 'And- s ave rrpresentation pots twice the extent i f political'power into thu hands of a- few selfish demagogues, thatmillion of flt; feigners would -ever be able ofiexertiig, even if They were ev-o firmly united. Ami pjnltlieal power means 'bf el a e representation grows er, audijs tncit likely to- be etmcvn I round used for •iungerouv purposes, than political power by means of naturalized for tig tiers. He i.ra-more tombed at the sight of one slave on American, soil thanivtil, there must still remain about j oil the lortigncrs ever landed |on oor shores.llion of pcrsouS who hud their birth ie Old World. T-besa havo under their rol Hunilmls of tHensondn of children, (ail native.Arjieriiian's,* many of whom— particularly of the .Gunnuna.—will grow up vtrtoally joreigners and strangers aftiosig 0:i.- These einigroots and their children' - arc scattered-extensively tk.nuigbout the Country , hut th.e.y are also.beginning to concentrate in parlicula; regions. Jo Ohio, .Illinois, MhsOori, and oilier pnrts of the West, they aru settling in Urge colonies. In nil tnaratime and rramifmiJuring towns, they ttreToiind in grc:*.t.ouo'bers, ami niati-ifeat w.divpiisitioo to retain their foreign peculiarities—to band together, and, both i:i civil ohd religious mailers, to keep-up a separate interest! frcm our native citizens.. -Often they throw their concentrated influence into, jibe political contests of the-country, and ate com ted by paiti-:-nns for the sake of their' votes.' - A large portion of!these foreigners are Culiiollfs, holding threet allegiance t i a potentate at -Home, fr) whose aulhor-iiv over them is supported hy; sanctions of a spiritual character, the .most awful that can he hi ought to influence the human mind. * * * *• The religion, which they bring with' •them is unftiendlv ta ours, and lo all ourIIIHMIM.great-numbers already; while oppression and the want of bread are driving them, and rvli-e our liber.il institutions and cheap lands pic innting them from tie* Old World-to the Mew, in uncounted throngs every ytar .” -Now, wc say, soppoto the stale of things wits such that u.l llit above paragraph in ght stand as i: ;is with the excep-birth|! language, religion, etc. are :■• great as ktctw«*en hem and ou(selves.— Take the English and Irish for example.In Ifce year 1937,1-6.770 ctnigrnled to this | country, of which more .thanJthroe-hfi^*. | werti English and Scottih, and ita than tyro-fifths Jri^h. 1 he Eiiglish and Scolcli!i | can be'ref.koueil' Ft olestataI* with a* mucb , propriety as the rish can be reckcacil Catholics. Now lit religiotw diUureric^.p,', enter into politics, c ud our English imnii-grarils out-vole thu Irish by a very larqe majority. So of otr French and.Frunsi^n itnrnigmnta. So toe of out Gcrioaar, Pr.Q-teslants;miid Gennt hcniholicsi: So loo of Polivtlders, Swiss, £ oixvegian*. All havc^ia regards, place of birl i, knguuge, rcUgion ,Vu. bits and pre-posses.*!ons, difference from o|e another as great as from native Ann;riciirjl. And supjwsing Cat (otic from all countries to vote-together; Jr rostestanta from akrond would all be likely to give their vote t-e other way. And even then the iufiuehte of naturalized voters would vt.ry nearly if not entirely balance and neutralize itsiLvf.Wc may take the ground that thegrowth of our al-ivc jwpnlotion, in its di-mt political bear ng, is n two-fold o fisc Iag.ijnst all possihl: iulJuence- of foreigners.Bet besides the three null ions of slavesarc) onu million o! foreign* rs, w chav e six -letn millions of l'tco nutivu Amiiriciins.—Si::teen: times the' whole -pumber of- for-aignera, eVen including Ihtf u uncountedthrongs1’ who' have arrived iv it bin the .lastfour, years -nnj-arc not yet1 -tialuralized—But: Ibis foreign population, Vo are told, isinci'ctising! upon' us w ilb g'n;ai rapidity. So,.•we reply,!is our native population. SinceThe (late from which the TBbkonn.g in theparagraph quoted commences, 1825, the:growth of our native popiifnlfan has beenat dcQst tight - mi //tints, orv-retire Ihaii tenlimtii greater than tk'at .of vt\r immigrantpopulation.1- Suppose iioinigration to in-creiise so iniueh that' in’ anuStier twelveyemrs-we ’bjavn -two millions;.ol: that clnss. |Thiji - ineri'tise of our -ha info population, Iwithout imi!tiding' slaves, will bo at least;'nimlher'eight tnildons withi'ni that period, jJu other-tverds; four TliTics'^tlliu number of■Oui-':; entire itnmigraul poput^iou, or eightlitnjfs the buriiber; great a* it fo, which1 Wesu pjp'oso i Its: i llcrdrfs e' may be' i n i h e en s u i ngThtrtleea years,- '■ Notice, thikt, .while ««r . i jofjrwntn»-c,ie -tfiinion' by niTtiilgra'-tiotil from hbrond, it gains rtH'jhl' millibas at liatftln natuial' increase til I home.':' Let tho^o wild are-'good at- figltres - si art thu cnidblatiori on that basis, or’ on aiiy other in lihe ricigbboi-hdoil of tru'lH and prolia. •biliijy, anil extend it Through ^)ie'next 15 Tty jor one; hundred yenri, and1 inform us at l.vhait point of lime in ‘ our Tijture history ;Hi foreigners. YY, undvrf a :iut^ exigence ari: ue, (imlexcejl and 'Cidoptcjl psirt of c-ur int-Oc.suppose, a war with oome Rurof.' power were on the apis, and th»l love i native land were t-» have ila inilutnce an those who had emigrated from Uiiit cckiI-try—say Great Bri.uin or France. Otr English, population would not be partial ?o France, nor would odr French popuh.tiija be likely to take sides with the English,4-Our past history shows that e»en those of purely English extraction can fright E gl'ah, with bearly good will, uml.«':i :iull cient provocation. Let any exigi to influence (he pop ihir vote, (: boslilily Iwtwcen lnuivo citizens,'.) and it l:ads a p: migrant population lo take one side, and, just as naturally nolt; just- as certainly, another part to lake tl o other side. Fonrijm Protest a Ms will be quite enough I in;: In u-s of foreign Catholic* without any cxini effort lo make them to- A oil anti-rcpubii-cans from abroad, . f there aru aijv, wijl find an hundred times t he ir|n urn be); opposed lo them, even imong our immipraijl population. 1'he it ca that fm-i«tjjrs from a dozen diflercnt cr uiitries, riolwijl'istand-jng all their diversi ies of tan gunge, creed and former habits, V. ill suddenly uit'ile and amalgamate with t-ach fit her, anil at tl same thu© couiinut. distinct anil separalje from j; the people of : hoir adopted country, is more than chi Id is lily absurd. .It require; as much time mid Jabor lo uiitie English and Irish, French »;id Germans, Swiss art-! Norwegians, ns it docs to unite either t»-our own population II rcquirca vastlywe ithall .be ovcifor, while they' are isolA:diially surrounded^ by our noli re tion and having with them imd most abundant info red-furci;»n popufolion■ nila litIf:*4 rAustria, or Italy, and perfeciij^!-each other and almrr.t wit haul infcVcours^, -ganized for united a.id concentrated political action, the case would be totally dijler-betion of proper, names ; and ihat, instead of arc told that immi ;.-anis comGreat Biitain^ Irftlond., France, t^crmauy, etc-, wo wcto tb^ read Virginia, Gniulina, Georgia, Louisiana, etc. There would, in that, cast*, he all the objections and groucdsof alarm there are in thu present case, and vastly more. We might urge ignorance and lack of cilccatiou ns matter of regret and serious, apprehension iu the supposed case, as truly Und to as great tin extent u« in the one before ns. We might urge with even greater pertinence and fv,rce,(thc baneful infiuetce and corrupting , trndvncica of die inititni ions and laws undue-which’they hnd Ijjrnierly lived. And, as something which !jmghl In* predienfod iu the supposed cose, but crionot in the cr.sc before might lie held tip, as nmttcr to exnite jealous and hostile feeling towards the nqw lt;omers, that they were bom and bred in tbc wmtimenli nnd prnclico of contempt for labor, nrid of making property and merclaudize of hutmjiuj beings. M'omuin-;t«ia t iat th« cause, of alarm io the case sup posed would his vastly- greater Than in case of which 'we are iipeiking. We know .of no; class of .men,' cither in thq OldI renterWorkand frtheiotherstoforupublicor New,- so dangerous Jo • liberty •e institutions as those who enslave fellow-rum, and upheld and deferd in -foiog so. But who would be* *d :vmoment in atteiripting to array sentiment against Virginians or Georgians who should, for a greater liking to the institutions and usages of the northern ijtaUrs, choose that portion .of the country ** the homo of them.selves and their children. 'We bold that it is vastly easier arid more a matter of course to make cowiislent Republicans cif new comers from Irelaml.Fiantf.jatjd Gtrmimy, ihnn to make (hem of fljch mqu as Tyler, Ca'djoun, Cloy, and Bulk, and thair adherents: But (verecollect *vn. were to spenk of number*,; '• Id the oboVe- extract wo are told--that,' of six hundred and siittji'-severi' thousand emigrant* front. Great .jBrituin and Ire-land iu .12 ye»f*,i.(13 T.should be) fivehundred t')ousnml at lea*t,:(3:k would. be nearer): found their to tho- United.'States: Mn other words,'That 'foli^jhreo-' tqurtji* of ,atl vjjjfo 'emigrated fiorp fhpsu coutriqi came todiv.a.with • us... Thero j» son»e diflcrepancy; betvreeD that statement and J Ne itsiistiru'oh the aUbjcrt published'niiotbefs than ibniie'rly-, arid lljal the year-ly influx is; increasing. 'Tht Vamu is true of the increase of our unlive' population. The'natural increase of six tee it or twenty in Monti of native Americana is cotr'espon-diiij'ty greater than That of fi*|f as great a. number. We ne'-tf'r ’have 'liiid, we Have .not now,- 'xa hav-i no proiiptct that we stin!I ever have, iiiinigraihui to be mure thru! equal to out-eighth pirl of lbe iu-crcU.'M’. of our tint.vi; jxqiulotion, leaving otr. ihe slaves. A.id it should be roni'cni-bificd that our pro-sen I nnlivs popcl.it ion is now more lbar. sixteen tiincs greater, ami that the direct iiillueure 'of slave n p. resell In tion is twice as great as That of n;it-uralized voters c«« ir.Ot'e Other‘fact appear* to he overlooked by cutivc Americans, ihrough excess'of frigh. or from some other cm.c, viz: that Irish tom! Dutch die like cthnrr jiecple.— Taring the o-dinan fslimMc of the term of htlniim life, as .lie basis from which to reckon three per cent- of out'immigrant pop!) I at ton die each year. Reckonin'' Ihe yctr y overage at -iftv thousKrid, and d«-daclMg three per cent, as the Average inor-ta!il),i, we get in ten years, nlt;!'. fivi: hundred liiousand, l”ut tcur hnn.!rt.d nnd'twejve thousand and five hundred; and in twenty yer.rsq-.not ft million, hut seven’hundred and I wcr.tyl thousand; i nd *n I hit tv yeaij- wc get uighl hundred' and sixly-lw': (b.ibsamlnml livI. htlriilrol nnli iirl of tifli.|.r linn.It might! the i |'watch the!r - niovei-1cuts.| their political inflye ice mu: I eistireiy balance and neutral!orlh • But :Ihil'i lo ■A NN UAL M Eii'IT NG- JOj the Jffihuaultir. County An/f«i So icty. |Pursuant to nolie j given, thiji 1met on the eveningf Tuesday,iu -Jibinsl. at the Acadernx,• in Fra inciik—v.Tjche.soh, ilia Presdent, presentttnd inthe Chair.rThe firs1, business*ueing tho ek-i(ion ofofficers lor thc.cnsuig year. -On.MORRIS S. BAv.N'E’a’T, whsthose n1? resident.11.hcusantl as Hu dnvcrsof panic might ieut. Or supposing uijr yearly im-lion to average l6l,00'!). Jw: that we aclt;{itirc of foreig i population in ten yijar9,S25,n00; in 20 1,4-U),-'000 : .und' it) 30 ycats, i,72u,f.j(0. T'c get a ioceigti-liorn population ol^ouating to 2,QUi;j,0U0 iu 30 years, tvo must have on average immigration of 1U-,OOJ ; or mow -than jdduble the O'uHnge of Tim last 20 yecrsj And occord to the rnost.cato-ful calcujntions froir all the census tables of th|» la«t fifty yeais, the increase of our natirjb populMoo in 30 pesrs to con.e will ns»t !» less liiAii a r'und twenty millions ’—tctij (old greatdt tlTau. imni)Ration.V Wq have seen th it there Tif no grmmh for a!,«qirig »pptoh insion in tlie character of oijr foreign emigrants; tint] none in their [actual or prospective number. .And.CBaeit'
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