Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-07-28
Know Nothing Prospects.


and members Of other parties, by their re-
ported prospects Of their party. 1t is boldly
asserted that the Nationol Know Nothing
party has greatly increased its numbers OF
late, and that the triumph Of their standard
bearers is beyond question. If the national
Know nothing party has not rapidly in
creased since Congress convened, they will
not be able TO makea respectable showing.
The elections of 1856 we're contested by the
Democratic and X. n. parties, and a large
majority of X Ms were returned to Congress,
and when Congress convened, the great Ma
tional Know Nothing party mustered about
thirty members. The balance of the mem
bers elected as X. Ms turned out to be
Black Republicans-like the food of Sir
John Falstan, ''An enormous quantity
Of sack and n very small amount OF
bread" The announcement that the Ma
tonal Know Nothing strength has greatly
increased will, doubtless, be received with
great satisfaction.
The X n. organs have, at great labor and
expense, complied and given to the public,
n table of the States they intend to carry
for the X. N. nominees in November next.
This table is composed of the following
States, and if the X. Ms can carry them
Mt the election as easily as they have on pa
per, the matter is alreadysettlcd. "Massa-
chusetts, New York, Kentucky, Maryland,
California, Rhode Island, Delaware, Florida,
Missouri, New Jersey, and Louisiana
These States cast 1913 Electoral votes, sufli-
cient to elect whoever they may unite upon.
! No sane politician would risk his character
on the assertion that the vote of Pennsylva-
MIA will be thrown against Buchanan, or
that the influence of the renegade Donaldson
would carry Tennessee for the X. N. Ticket
The Know Nothings in the hight of their
prosperity, never cast majority of the
votes of New York. They never carried N.
Y. by other than plurality vote, and aow,
when the Democracy are united upon an
able and popular national candidate, they
cannot reasonably hope to carry New York
for the X. Ms even "by scratch" The
X. Ms last fall carried California by hand
some majority, and yet no writer in the
State, who has any regard for his reputation
would hazard the assertion that the X. Ms
will carry the State in November next, for
all know that the party has lost every To-
cnl election that has transpred since last
fall, and that their party is hopelessly and
! forever in the minority. If the Know Moth
ing party cannot carry California, where
they were largely in the majority last fall
how can they reasonably expect to carry
New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee,
in one of which they never had a majority,
and in the two latter they have been beaten
into the earth by the popular voice of the
people? We cannot understand how they
can put forth such calculations, They must
be made within the secret recesses OF their
wigwams, and perhaps they intend to Sc
cretly carry the States mentioned for their
candidates.
While the Know othing party are claim
inr the States mentioned above, the Black
Republican porty-thc idertical party that
swallowed the Know Nothings in Congress,
are confident of being able to carry New
York and Pennsylvania, for Fremont, and
when the latter party offer to back their
confident assertions, Notwithstanding the
bright prospects Of the X Ms in those
States. they find no takers in the X. n. par
ty This mode of carrying the elections be-
fore they transpire is, perhaps, harmless
unless it is an unfortunate few who are sim
pie enough to place confidence in the figures
of the X. y. prints, and furnish the Democ-
racy with their loose change.
LorA MONTEZ WHIPPED BY NoNAN.-