Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-11-13
TNFTITENCE or FOREIGN VOTES

The administration presses and other oppo-
nents Of our doctrines have, on various occa-
sions, sought to underrate the importance Of
the toreign vote cast at our elections, and have
cssayed to prove that such vote does not, 10 any
perceivable extent, control our elections, DO
cause it is scattered and diffuscd throughout
the country. 1t is not denied by our oppo-
nents that almost the entire foreign vote is
usually cast on the same side We shall en-
doayor to demonstrate, by calculations and
facts which cannot be controverted, that the
foreign population have noW the po@er to de-
eide the election of President Of the United
States, in any contest between the two former
rival parties, Wings and Democrats, when the
old political lines are drawn between these
parties.
We may here. in advance Of exhibiting our
figures, advert to the well-known fact, that 1t
was considered extremely doubtful on which
side the .toreign votes would be cast as be-
tween Generals Pierce and Scott in 1852, until
within a very few days before the election. II
is even said and Jelieoed, that negotiations
were carried on for sometime between certain
distinguished emmissaries Of "higher pom
or" and the recognised friends of the rival
candidates, touching the consideration or ralue
Of the foreign VOTE and that the results of these
negotiations are too manifest, not to be well
understood by all who pay attention to the
political huckstering Of corrupt partisans.
If it be true, as we think we shall demon
strate, that the foreign voters in our country
can, by acting in concert, control our presiden-
tial elections and if it be true, as we have been
led to believe, and as we shall at some not very
distant day, attempt to show, that nearly all
the foreign vote can be controlled bya "higher
yato" influence, surely the patriotic Of all other
parties will unite with us in our efforts to de-
feat the Vaccinations Of demagogues who
may hereafter seek to obtain political place and
power, by means of such influences! With
out further allusion to this point non, we shall
present our figures. We shall exhibit the sta
tistics Of fourteen States in this connection,
whose aggregate electoral vote was one hum
dred and fifty-two at the last election, that
number being taoO more than q majority of the
whole electoral vote cast Tor President we
have made our calculations on the usual basis,
that one-seoenth of the general population Of
the States are voters. We doubt not that one
Jith of the foreign population are voters be-
cause there is smaller proportion of adult fe-
males and of children among them, than in the
same number of native-born population. Still
we adhere to the usual basis of calculation.
In California, however, whore there are
seventeen males to one female, and but few
children, we assume that about one-half Of the
whole foreignpopulation are voters, and we have
estimated the foreign vote at ten thousand, in a
foreign population Of twenty-onc thousand six
hundred and twenty-eight persons. On these
principles, we now present our statistics, taken
from the census Of 1850, and the American
Almanac for 1854: