Butte record., 1856-05-17
FGr1Y IssEes.

P"i i'AS7 "a eiie OONAiel J az" IL 0"N
the duty Of those aceust tomed only t"
the old Issues to exassine carefully the
ground upon which they stand.
The issues heretofor dividing the two
great parties of the cou: Try, were ques-
items of national existence No sectional
+nmity was planted and fostored BY
them to grow and fatten upon the broad
lands Of our country. Ia tbos- by>gone
issues the verdict of the people was in
favor Of the Democratic party. For
one generation were these parties con-
tending with Zach other upon natilna
issues, led on by patriotic men whose
every feeling w.s for their country.
These issues may have been maintained
and combatted in spirit that may have
caused feelings of enlargement and
bitterness. Such feelings should not
now enter into the consideration OF cood
citizens. Those issues have passed,
and with the great minds Of its leaders,
Clay and Webster, passed away the
once great and glorious whig party" "
In it, place has arisen others, and be
fore before becoming committed to new
issues and new parties, every candid
man should weigh well the issues pre-
sented.
The Kaow-N Nothing. Or American
party, springing Ph@niz Ike from the
ashes Of the old Wing party, has been ia
existence in our State TOR about two
yeas. The rapidity of It's growth ex-
ceed all precedent, and so has its de-
cline, It's main osteasible object was
to array twenty-lhree millions Of Amer
icans against three millions of foreign
born citizens, and to prevent the latter
from wrestling the government from the
hands of the former This party is de
iunct, so far as national issues are con
cerned, and however patriotic and hon
ora bic many of its merubers may be, they
have but one choice now, either to JOIN
and act with the Democratic party in
maintaining constitutional and national
rights, or, by continuing where they are
to incidentally aid in the success of a
party whose only basis is seciionaIity---
whose only trophy Of triumph would be
disuuion. The Philadelphia News, an
organ ofthc Know Nothing order, holds
the following language:
sin common candor ard fairness, We
must admit that we a. longer look Tor
any good 10 result from he deliberations
of Nothing councils, nor the or
ganization Of the American party. The
fact is, and it would be worse than lily
to disguise it, Knnw-Not ingiss4 is pffete.
1t has lost the respect and conidenc of
the mass OF the people, and is new only
the football Of corrupt and unprincipled
political demagogues, who seek place
and power by means of its secret ma
chinery, but in whom the people have no
confidence, and never will support in
any movement they may undertake."
So much for its Importance IN the At
lantic world. Here in California, the
order is in still worse state Of dead
and alive existence. To show that It's
day has passed in this Stale, we need
only refer to the result of the recent
municipal elections in this State Jas.
ChurehInan, President Of the Nevada
County Council, says Kit is the most
rotten and corrupt ever read Of" For
"Caxton's" opinion Of the order, the
reader is referred TO another column.
As the Known Nothing institution
sprung from the remains of whlgsery,
so springs the Black Republican party
from defunct Kl-Yi-ism. Whiggery
begat Know -Nothingism, and K. N.ism
begat Repubicanism. 1.-THE authorities
quoted ore deemed sufficient to show
that the K. n. party is defunot, then
there are in fact, bu; two parties in the
poii .ical feld---the Democratic party.
whose antscrdents are furnished in the
history and prosperity OF the country,
and the Republican party. whose exist
ence was conceived il oppositioe t. the
act of Congress winch gave to the people
of the territories the right to geyein
themselves.
The platform Of the Rorubiieag party
is composed of ten resolutions, SIX Of
which are opposed TO slavery, TIE first
resolution states that the Republican,
party has been "organized to preserve
The liberties of the people Second,
that the cardinal principle of the party
is "the prohibition of slavery in all the
National territories" Third, that the
party is in favor 'of preventing the in
crease of the political power of slavery. "
Fourth. that prohibition of slavery in