Butte record., 1856-09-06
The Meeting Saturday Night.


was about the same number in attendance
as there wss on the evening of the day on
which the Democratic county convention
met With the exception of few persons,
it must have been wholly an Oroville ana
vicinity crowd--such as turns out at every
gathering; and yet it must have been iarg-
er than the meetings usually addressed py
the great Ex-Governor, for he announced
that the demonstration would warrant him
in saying, that Butte county was safe for
Fillmore and Donnelsou. Monday night,
will doubtless make as big demonstration
in favor of Fremont, and give the Black Re-
publicans Just as much reason to claim the
county for Fremont as Gov. Foote had on
Saturday night, to claim it for Fillmore
1t was lust such a crowd as 0roville can fur
nish any evening 1t turned out such
crowd on the occasion of the representations;
it turned out such crowd to see the "buii
and Bear fight'-it turned out such crowd
| TO greet Gov. Foote and Dr. Powell, and to-
night the same crowd will be out to hear
those ELOQUENT advocates of Black Republi-
canism, Tom Cox & Co., and the latter gen
tlemen will go away and feel authorized to
claim the county tor Fremont.
"he Fillmore men had displayed much
taste and some expense in getting up the al
fair. The u S. Hotel was festooned with
eyergreens-anvils fred-aGd slx-tweifths
OF dozen rockets were sent up from below,
and then sent up into the immensity of space
| by order of the secretary of the Club-prob-
ably as warning to the Niger worshipers
| ha mi
intend to send them up next November
Those who have had the honor Of listening
to a political speech, delivered in California,
by Gov. Foote know what the speech amount
ed to, on Saturday evening, with the excep-
ton of slight variation. He saved the Union
again, on Saturday night-that is, himself
Webster and Clay. He again annihilated
President Pierce, jeff Davis. and the ''little
giant" He appeared to be satisfied in his
own mind, that the only man. who could
save the Union, was Millard Ei-l-i-m-0-r-e.
He had done it once, with the assistance of
the humble and unpretending speaker, and
would do it again-providing the speaker
was in the Senate, or in his Cabinet to as
sist him. He informed the audience how he
had used up jeff Davis, in Mississippi, but
neglected to explain how it was, that jeff
Davis is still an honored csizen of Missis-
sippi, while he is g political exile, seeking
Office, on the shores OF the Pacific. He class
es himself with such men as Clay, Cass and
Webster; but does not explain why, unlike
them, he left the state which had honered
and advanced him, and sought preferment
in California.
He was particularly severe on what the
Cincinnati Convention had to say about the
trans Atlantic Railroad; but did not men,
ton railroad in connection with the Fill
more platform, for the very good reason that
= his platform says nothing about it. He Ia
| bored with a spcciousness, unworthy of a
national mind, unbiased by desire for Of
fee, to reduce the action Of the Democratic
party upon this subject, to a level with the
, position assumed by his own oath bound
and one e-idead Know Nothing PARITY
The party with which this gre at ex -Gov-
ernor is connected, has been to busy pro-
scribing our naturalized citizens, to say a
word about the Pacific Railroad, and yet we
understood Gov. Foote to sayi that the dem
ocratic party were not favorable TO the con-
struction of the road, and that the oath
bound party, whose success he advocated.
was. lie asserted this in tie face of the res
olutions adopted bs the Cincinnati Conveu-
ton, and in the face of the bill passed by
the Democratic Senate, to establish a mill
tary road across the plains, which is ack-
nowledged by all to be the first and indes-
pensabe step towards ;he construction Of
the Pacific Railroad
Here are facts, acts, and words commit
ting the democratic party in its favor. and
not a single act, line or word showing that
the oath bound order of the Governors, IA
, vors the project, and yet he asserted that
| III Il sod
Railroad, and that the proscriptive order OF
which he was a member, was alone favorable
to its construction. Ii seems somewhat sin
gular ground for man to assume, who
wishes his hearers to give him credit for q
national position, candor and fairness.
He wished tho miners to sustain him and
his party at the approaching election; but
} he did not explain why he introduced prop
osition into the U. 5. Senate, to divide the
state of California before admitting her into
the Union, as that might have left the Gov
ernor and his party obnoxious to the charge
of endeayoriDg to introduce slave labor in
the mines of California, and thus degrade
the social position of the miner to that Of a
! serf
He did not explain to the miners, why he
introduced such proposition in the Senate
He was then a resident of Mississippi, and
when making his proposition in the u s.
Senate to degrade the labor of California
he probably did not expect that he would
ever be reduced to the necessity of asking
those whom he proposed to degrade, to ele-
te him to Office
He denounced the well established fact
that Fremont has the present House of rep
resentatives if the election should be thrown
into the House, and without stating figures,
assured his hearers, that Fillmore was sure
of an election by the House. should there be
no choice by the people. He did not tell his
audience. that Fremont had twelve votes al
ready in the House, and that the returns
from Iowa, where there was a vacancy in
Congress, gave him two more, and that it
would require but l6 votes in the House to
choose President. He omitted figures and
assured them that Fillmores chances were
best. He did not appear to remember that
the present House of representatives. elect
ed speaker Banks over both the Democratic
and his own darling and proscriptiye Know
Nothing party.
! Both of the gentlemen who addressed the
| Oroville meeting, were grey haired and rev.
erend men, and when they proclaimed from
the stand that they had always been Demo-
Gratis, and we're Democrats still, though ad-
vocating the election of a man who had al
ways opposed the democracy, and who had
long since declared himself in favor of abol-
ishing slavery in the district of Columbia
when they still proclaimed themselves DEM
ocrats, and dared assertions to the contrary,
we know not what kept the audience silent;
but we did think, that pity for human ma
ture; respect for age reverance for hoary
heads-choked back and strAed the voice Of
indignant denial
There was vein of speciousness, perva-