The weekly ledger., 1857-08-22
To the Voters of Amador.
Shall the Whole Democratic Ticket be
EleCtedo

ty-One years ana. NOT OtnerWlSe UlSquailneQ.
will assemble at the polls according to law
and there determine who are to be their
State servants for the two years next ensuing
the close Of the present, and also who are to
be their lawmakers next winter.
1t is a duty which every citizen owes to
himself and to the State that he shall vote
conscientiously, and as far as possible under
standingly. The man who does not care
enough about an election to 60 to the polls is
a bad citizen. Ours is government of the
people, and the citizen who negects to take
part in that government passes by not only
one of his highest privileges but one of his
highest duties He would deserve the anar-
chy which would inevitably follow if all citi-
zens Of the State should adopt like know
nothing and do-nothing policy.
That majority of the citizens Of Amador
county have well determined TO cast their
votes for Col. Weller and the Democratic
State ticket, is question about which there
is no shadow of doubt Mr. Stanly and the
ticket of which he is the head may carry the
full Republican vote as it now stands. but in
this county that vote is less than it was last
year, as the result will show Outside of the
Republican vote proper, neither Mr.. Stanly
nor any man running with him can receive
single ballot Maj. Bowie and the ticket
of which he is the head will receive the vote
of the Know Nothing Remnant in the coun-
ty-the X. n. Remnant proper-but in no
instance will they encroach upon the Dtmo-
cratic vote. That the Know Nothing Rem
nant in Amador is small faction, is evident
to the most casual political observer The
strength of the party consisted in its organi-
cation as a secret order; and when it gave
up its secresy-as it processes to have done
it gave up the ghost There are only a
few who are insane enough to hold fast to an
organization that can never, now or hereafter,
prove to be of any possible practical utility
Know Nothingism is Dead and only those
who have more hardihood than discretion
more hatred to Democracy than present de-
votion to the best interests of the State
hold fast to the carcass of what was once
powerful because of its secresy and the in
fatuation which was in consequence produced
We repeat that the Democratic State ticket
will sweep the little county of Amador with
out struggle.
But we have Legislative ticket to elect
also; and the Know Nothing Remnant are
striving with all their power to elect their
candidates-or, as we believe to elect one of
them Is there any reason that the Democ-
racy seeing that they have the power to pre-
vent any such result, should permit it to oc-
cur? If there is any such reason any thing
that can be called q reason-we have yet to
hear and know what it is. If the Know
Nothing gentlemen who are in the field a.
gainst the Democracy-Messrs Scott, Briggs
and Hinckson-are possessed Of any special
them to be elected without respect to par.
ty," why did they not run independent
Why did they become the candidates and
standard bearers of the Know Nothing Rem
nant, bitterly denouncng all Others save that
did know that without many votes other than
those Of the remnant they must be distanceC
in the race? Yet the attempt is now made
to gull the people by telling them that The
X. n. candidates are not running as real par
tizans but as reformers, and that they shoulc
receive the votes of honest men of all par
ties 1t is extremely inconsistent for then
to put on any such garments, or to allow thei
friends to put them on for them. Their idei
Of running independent seems to be to frs
get party nomination
Why elect the X. n. candidates in ANA
dor, or any one Of them? Gould any posi-
BILE good result from thus fostering and cher
ishing the remnant of Know Nothingsm?-
We trow not. Every man in his senses ad
mits that hereafter the contest for potica
power must be between the Democracy anC
the Republicans; the leadins and thinking
men of the Know Nothing party see and ac
knowledge this, and have taken their posi-
tions accordingly. Why then breathe new
life into faction that at most could only
maintain sickly existence for brief season