Lynchburg Daily Virginian

Immigration and the South.

The Chicago Democrat, edited by long John Wentworth, formerly a prominent Democratic member of Congress, says:

The fact is, if people wish to drive slave labor from our free territories, they must look to foreign labor as the best means of doing it; and hence, all anti-slavery extensionists should labor to encourage foreign emigration. We must have more foreigners here, and they should be of the kind that will resist slavery at all hazards.

Just as we have been urging for the last twelve months. The great competitor of slave labor in this country is imported free labor, and the natural enemy of slavery is immigration.

We have shown heretofore how it was that immigrant free labor enabled the people of the Northern States to abolish slavery—and how it is that the vast accessions to their population from abroad have given them a numerical and political preponderance in the Union, by which they hold the South at their mercy. Greeley well understands this, and his bitter opposition to Americanism arises from its tendency to check this great feeder of Northern power. The New England Emigrant Aid Society understand it, and have explained in their official publication the modus by which immigration is to be made the means of converting all the Territories into free States. Any man, whose vision is not coated by an impenetrable film of prejudice may see it—must see it. But this fact, patent and obvious as it is to all, does not prevent the Democrats—while encouraging immigration and hob-nobbing with foreigners—from pretending to be the best friends of the South, and the truest defenders of the institution of slavery.

Late intelligence from Europe informed us that Mazzini, the Italian socialist and friend of Kossuth, had announced his intention of emigrating to this country. Mazzini is the same individual who, writing to a friend in this country, appealing to him for aid to emancipate Italy, said:

"Twenty-four millions of emancipated Italians will be twenty-four millions of Abolitionists to aid their brethren in America."

Here, too, is another item, seemingly small, yet significant enough, as showing that so deeply implanted in the minds of foreigners is hostility to slavery, that not even the kindness and courtesies of Southern people, and actual observation of the happy condition of the slave can eradicate it. Few foreigners have ever been received by the South more kindly than Ole Bull. The Northern papers make the following statement with reference to him:

Ole Bull gives $500 towards establishing a new German Republican paper in Wisconsin. He is to take the stump for Fremont through that state.—Boston Transcript.

Out of six German papers published in Cincinnati, we see it stated that only one of them supports Buchanan, and but one out of three in Baltimore. All the rest are Black Republican.

The following from the Hartford (Ct.) Free Press shows with what confidence the Abolitionists count upon the German vote:

The German Club.—The Germans have organized a Branch Fremont Club. They go in for Fremont and Dayton, and had a preliminary meeting last Saturday evening, at which a goodly number were present. The German is cousin of the Anglo-Saxon, and has the same love for liberty. Germans, of whatever class or of whatever division, are the advocates of freedom and the enemies of tyranny. There are those of them now among us who have suffered for this holy cause in their father land. Not only these, but their brethren who came to our shores before them, will be found on the true side in the present contest, striking a strong blow for Fremont and Freedom! The Right and Victory.

The New Orleans Creole, referring to the state of affairs in that city, says:

We supposed that to be the fact, for we have heard Germans of New Orleans advocating the cause of Fremont. It is not a mere political ruse to assert that our naturalized citizens differ from the native born at the South in regard to the rights of the slave States and the policy which it is proper to pursue. We present to the Southern men this irrefragable proof that a change of the naturalization laws is essential to our safety. We are nourishing in New Orleans those lately made citizens, who are northern sectionalists, and as we have often said, such a result was to have been expected, as education, association and the entire habit of thought, of all emigrants from the old world, are directly at war with Southern institutions. Greeley never uttered a more truthful sentence than when he said "immigration is the cradle of freedom," meaning free-soilism.

So complete and sweeping has been the secession, from Democracy to Black Republicanism, of foreigners in the free States, & especially of Germans, that some of the Democratic press are beginning to revile them as ingrates and traitors for discarding Democracy, after so many years of fond caresses, of flattery, dalliance and endearment. The Cleveland Plaindealer (Dem.) breaks out in the following scornful denunciation of them:

These hare-lipped Germans, these Red-Mouthed Republicans know it, and notwithstanding all this, they are now ready to lick the hand that was raised to smite them. Had the Democratic party given way and fallen in with the Know Nothing movement there would have been passed by this very Fusion Congress laws virtually driving all such creatures out of the country, as men dangerous to liberty and unworthy the rights of American citizens. It was from no love for them, traitors as they are to every consideration of gratitude and justice, that the Democratic party did not so act; but it was a determination to stand by the principle of "equal and exact justice to all men of whatever nation or creed," which is the foundation of the Democratic faith, that induced the party to defend a cause which, with all other foreign-born subjects, protected them.