Butte record., 1856-11-01
To Citizens of Foreign Birth.


bv a government the most liberal
under the sun.
In this, the land of your adoption,
a party has arisen which denies you
the right of suffrage, like the tyrants
who curse your native land with their
misrule, and oppress your countrymen
beyond the Ocean. This party have
discarded their original and offensive
name and now seek to obtain your
votes under the disguise of ''Fillmore
Menr' They deny their opposition
to you, but their candidates are still
pledged to carry out doctrines which
would prevent the foreigner from be-
coming a citizen, and disqualify for
eign born citizens from holding any
office of honor, trust or eMolument
in the United States. Every citizen
of foreign birth, who votes the Fill
more ticket, or any portion of it, is
not only voting to prevent foreigners
from becoming citizens, and enjoying
the rights now guaranteed to foreign
BORN citizens, but is actually voting
for a party whose cardinal principle
! is determination to disqualify those
of foreign birth who are now citizens,
from filling any Office under the gov
ernment of the United States, from
Congressmen down to Constable. In
their midnight meetings against you,
these Fillmore Men" have taken a
solmen obligation not to appoint to a
position, even of policeman, a foreign
born citizeni Yea, more than all of
this, this "Fillmore Party is the
same party who murdered Irishmen
and their families, and burned their
dwellings in Louisville, Kentucky.
This 'Fillmorc party" is the same
party who murdered the German cit
izens of Cincinnati, and drove them
from the polls. They now approach
/ the foreign born citizen, and assure
him that they are no longer ''Know-
Nothings," but "Flllmore Men p
Fillmore is ''Know-Nothing" and
is pledged, if elected, to carry out
the odious principles of the ''Know-
Nothing party. 1t is so with every
nominee of that party, no matter to
what station he aspires. If you elect
a Know-Nothing to the Legislature,
he will elect a bigger Nothing
to the United States Senate, and for
six years will he stand up in the Ma
tion's Capitol at Washington, and
endeavor not only to prevent foreign
ers from becoming citizens, but also,
to deprive those who are now citizens
Of the right to hold any official posi-
ton whatever.
There is another party in the pres
ent contest, who claim to be the par
ticular friends of our foreign citizens.
This party style themselves Repub-
licane, but like the Fillmore Men" "
they, too are ''know- Nothings," "and
if successful, will throw the same re-
strictions around citize of fl i. n
bi tn. The very men who organized
the Republican party were members
of the Know-Nothing National Con-
vention There was no Republican
party until the know-Nothings split
into factions at Philadelphia. and the
dissenting wing organized the Repub-
liean party. Fremont has been re-
peatedly endorsed as a "Know-Noth-
ing by innumerable wigwams. SO
has Dayton, the Republican candi-
date for Vice President, and also
their candidates for Eelectors and
nominees for State officers. Look at
the Republican nominees for Butte
County! All of them members of
the Know Nothing order, and some
of them elected to office on that tick
ct last fall.
Will our foreign-born citizens vote
to deprive themselves of the rights
and privileges which the constitution
and laws guarantee them, by voting
with the Fillmore Men," who are
Know Nothings, or with the Repub-
licans, who are also know-Nothings!
The Democratic party have ever
contended for liberal naturalization
laws They done so under the adj
of the elder Adams, and
later against the midnight order of
Know Nothings, and now against the
Fillmore Men and Black Republi-