Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-07-15
Know Nothing Revival.


As hopeful quacks sometimes attempt the
resuscitation of drowned men, so does that
female practitioner, the Sacramento Union,
still pretend to indulge in the fond hope that
the ashes Of defunct Know Nothingism may
be gathered together ere the fall campaign,
and by its aid that of its sister quacks, be
brought again to life and light. They earn
estly ask, how long will party lie i the
ground ere IL rot" and seek about for its
burial place, preparatory to disinterring her
and warming up her remains, ghosty as
they are. to array her execrabe shape"
against the genius of Democracy, which as
they say, "bestrides this narrow world like
a Colossus"
Whether the miracle of raising the slum-
bering ashes Of Sam from the dead will be
performed is yet to be seen. We shouldn't
wonder if he did wake up and yawn. dead
as he seems. and fright his few remaining
adherents as the ghost of Hamlet's daddy
did him, and beckon them on to some seclu-
ded spot, and set them after his assassin the
Democratic party, with as much determine =
ton as the Prince OF Denmark got after his
Uncle Father"
We rather like the idea of Sans revival !;
it would seem sort O natural to have him to
play with again. He is just impudent and
spunky enough to give the fight a relish ;
and then the victory would be SO much more
laudable over him and his compeer the woody
horse, both arrayed against us, than over
the latter alone We are decidedly of the
opinion that Sam is turning over in his
coffin, for as the great nruse (thc UniOn)
herself says, in speaking of the elements
which are and will be arraigned against the
Democracy:
"By uniting upon good men, lcithom be-
ing too particular about their abstract no.
tions, the opposition may give to the people
of this county an excellent set of officers
for the next two years So with State oti-
GERS if the opposition will unite upon good
competent men, they may furnish the people
of the State with n set Of officers Of a char
acter never heretofore placed in power in
California"
THE opposition" means union of "Sam"
and the woolly horse" we suppose, and
after Sam is dug up he will compose a
part of it,
We agree with the old nurse, that the
policy of " the opposition" will doubtless be
to select men "without beiug too particular
about their abstract notions;" that's what
we expect; if for no other reason than be-
cause we reckon on a second edition Of such
candidates as were elected to Office by the
Know Nothings during the lifetime OF that
party. Sam wasn't "too particular about
their abstract notions;" not he his motto
was ''place none but Americans on guard"
and Americans (such as they were) were
placed on guard, and stood around the
treasury until there wasn't cent in it.
We said that Sam had doubtless turned
over in his coffin, and we guess he has, for
we see by the papers that his relatives and
friends are to hold love feast in Sacramen-
to on the 2Sth instant, for the purpose of
nominating candidates for State officers.
Poor Sam his friends should have let his
ashes rest in peace. This is his last dis
turbance however, for he will be buried so
deep after September next that nothing short
of Gabriel's horn will ever wake him.