Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-10-25
Pennsylvania.


The wild and imaginative fancies Of the
know-Nothings, and sectional blindness and
deprasity of the Republicans, have led them
to assert, if they do not believe, that the
Electoral vote of Pennsylvania will be cast
In favor of Mr.. Fremont, and against Mr..
buchanan. Some Of the X. n. Press have
the hardihood 10 assert that the Old Kew.
stone State would return to Know Nothing.
ism, "lke dog to his vomit." and cast her
vote for Millard Fillmore These assertions
OF The opposition press, unsustained as they
are by any reliable data, should pass by the
Democracy OF California "as the idle wind"
II doubts have been raised IN the mi nds Of
any with regurd to the reliability of Penn
sylvania, calm and fair consideration of
The circumstances and influences which will
bear upon the result in that State, will BAN
lsh ut once every reasonable doubt
In the first place, it is conceded by MI, ex.
cept the now-Nothing press of California,
thaS Fillmore party will not poll as. many
votes IN Pennsylvania as they did at the late
election in Maine. If the Fillmore nar.y in
pennsylvania have an electoral ticket, the
press of Pennsylvania does not show it At
one time, in the campaign, there was soil.
tary journal in Pennsylvania, supporting
Mr. Fillmore. 1t is highly probable that
this solitary organ has abandoned him and
gone over to the ScpubliGans, If not, tits
hardly probable that siUgle Journal, with
a circulation of seventeen, hundred. will be
enabled to carry the great State of Penn
syvania. Somuch for Bllmore's chances
in the Old Keystone State.
The Black Republican, party expect. to be
able to carry the State for Fremont by tho
delusive cry of free labor" They hope,
by comparing the labor of tl.e Germans of
Pennsylvania, with that of the Slave Of the
Southern. States, to induce them to vote for
Fremont Against the probability of their.
doing So. however, there are several impor-
tant and weighty reasons. Pennsylvania,
for the first time, has furnished a democratic
candidate for the Office of Chief Macistracy
OF the Union, and, we're there no other con.
sderations in his. favor, this alone should
induce the State 10 cast her vote for the
democratic nominee 1t isan honor of which
any State might be proud. But there are
other reasons which will tend to throw the
vote ofthe State for him. 1t is conceded, by
the opposition press claiming the State for
Fremont, that, whichever way the Society
OF Quakers cast their influence will the vote
OF the State be given. The Know Nothings
secured this vote, when they elected their
Governor in 1854, but failed to retain it,
and were defeated at a subsequent election
This vote will'be given for James Buchanan
the purity Of whose life is not exeelled by
the rigid rules Of the sturdy Quakers them
selves They have. exalted him time and
again, and will not now desert the man
they have so often honored and advanced
when they have the double opportunity of
showing theirdevOtion to their country, and
| eleyating, ,a,eitizen oftheir own State, whose
Life ls-without n stain" to the Chief Mag
istr@ey of the Union. These are the causes
which wilLoperate to give the vote of Penn.
sylvania to Buchanan and the Union. WLo
doubts it h.?