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Ehe Foreign vote exceeds Rierce's
majority over Scott l5O,S41 votes!

majority over Scott l5O,S47 votes!
But there is another view of this
question which demonstrates most
clearly the truth of the declaration,
viz: that Pierce o;oeS has election to
foreign votes! The Administration
presses and other opponents of our
doctrines have on various occasions,
sought to underrate the importance of
the foreign vote cast at our elections,
and have essayed to prove that such
votes do not, to any perceivable extent,
control our elections, because it is scat
tered and diflused throughout the
country! 1t is not denied by our op-
ponents that almost the entire foreign
vote is usually cast on the same side.
We shall endeavor to demonstrate, by
calculations and facts which cannot be
controverted, that the foreign popula-
tion HAVE NOW TIE POWER to
decide the election of President of the
United States, in any contest between
the two iormer rival parties, Wings
and Democrats, when the old political
lines are drawn between the parties.
Wegnay here, III advance of exhibit
ing ouf figures, advert to the WE'LL
known fact that it was considered OK
tremely doubtful on which side the
foreign votes would be cast, as between
Generals Scott and Pierce, in 1852,
until within a very few days before the
election. 1t is even said and believed
that negotiations were carried on for
some time between certain distinguish
cd cmissarics Of a " higher power" and
the recognized friends of the rival can
didates, touching the consideration or
value of the foreign vote, and that the
results of these negotiations are too
manifest not to be we'll understood by
all who pay attention to the political
huckstebng of corrupt partizans.
1t it be true, as we think we shall
demonstrate, that the foreign voters in
our country can, by acting in concert,
control our Presidential elections; and
if it be true, as we have been led to be-
lieve, that nearly all the foreign vote
can be controlled by a "highcr law ;"
influence, surely the patriotic of all
other parties will unite with us in our
efforts to defeat the Vaccinations of
dcmagogucs who may hereafter seek to
obtain political place and power by
means of such influences
Without further allusion to this point
now, We shall present our figures. We
shall exhibit the statistics of fourteen
States i'll this connection, whose ag-
gregate electoral vote was one hundred
and ffty-two at the last election, that
number being two more than major
ity Of the whole electoral vote for Pre-
sldcnt. We have made our calcua-
tlons on the usual basis, that 1-soventh
OF the general population Of the State
are voters. We doubt not that one
nth OF the foreign population are vo-
terS, because there is smaller proper
tlon Of adult females and Of children
among them, than in the same number
OF native-Dorn population. Still, we
adhere to the usual basis of calcula-
ton
In California, however, where there
arc sel cnteen males to one female, and
but few children, we assume that about
one-half of the whole foreign popula-
tion arc voters, and we have estimated
the foreign vote at 10000 in foreign
population of 21,628 persons. On
these principles we now present our
statistics. taken from the census of
1900 and the American Almanac for
1851:
IL Foreign Foreign Pietce's Eiee,i
STATES. population. poie. mary. Voie.
New York, Cos, ,22i o3,3l7 27,2ol 80
pcnnsylyanio, 303,l0J 43,3O0 10,4i6 81
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