North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-04-05

Gratis, all Federalisfs.'
Hang me if / am, ses to myself, if want rais-
ed Democrat, and nothing else. never suckt my
MOTHER So bid them good bye, and made for
Gadsbys, where entered my name j. Diddle, del-
egate from Georgia. the next time looked al the
book, some Rapscalion had added:
Poor Jeremy Diddle is lame of leg,
And so he is coming some office to beg.
SEES | to the bar-keeper, who did that!
Ses he, don't know-it looks like the hand right
of Mr.. Stephens
SEES to myself: nice treatment Of converted Dem
ocrats.' SEES 1, 'can you tell me where the Georgia
members are
SEES he, they are out some where
waited till next day, but could never catch them
in their rooms nor at the table nor could meet any
one who could tell me when or where the Union
meetin to be, so sent this advertisement 10 i'
Ritchie's paper: L--ae
| IMPORTATION WANTED. . .s.
bothered Georgia Delegate wants to know when
and where the Constitutional meetin is to be held.
| The servant soon returned, saying, MI. Richie
! said take this back to the writer.
Ses to myself, he's nice Union man! ~ senG
it the Thereafter Fisher, and if he'll treat me So
Take it, ses l, to the Southern Press
He soon came back with note from the me Lu nIin
requesting private interview. touno nun PoN'''
about among piles of papers.
! Mr.. Fisher, l recon 2 ses l.
! yes SIR ses he.
| And Pm Mr.. Jeremy Diddie, the man you wan
10 see,' ses /.
i am glad to see you, Mr.. Diddle,' ses he, for
| take you TO be an honest man..
Pm nothing else, sir ses L. . ~,
Il wanted to see and tell you personally Mr' Dio
de- that you have been deceived-egregousiy num-
plugged and abused, by set OF the most unPIincPeu'
ofce-hunting trcksers that ever polluted the Pur-
lieus of political corruption
sHow's that!' ses |.
! No greater wrong and insult can be offered to an
honest and honorable man, ses he, than to know
ingy and wfnly delude and deceive him for seihsh
purposes-that is, to use him. Iou re Democrat
A. and no
spois of Office have made you believe they are alarm
ed for the safety of the UnOn and are Its only irienus
and therefore wish to form great Constitutional
Union party it. instead of joining the South
ern Democrats the only true Union mep, and there
by form party strong enough to reform the abuses
of government, of which the South SO justly COM
plains, and bring the government back to the pnr
ty and principles of its founders and quiet forever
all this hearburning and excitement that so justly
CONFUSING the Union. For depend upon it, such
party alone the Union, if it can be saved
No party that is not founded on principle; no party
that combines for aggressive power and Punder;
however they may cry glorious Union. and retard
its doom all such combinations but hasten its disso-
luton they invite and justify counter combinations,
which speedily result in revolutionary violence, and
the sdbVersion of all government Mexico and South
America daily giving lessons in this philosophy.
Ses l. how did you know, Mr.. Fisher, that was
Democrat?'
Know ses he, why. none but democrat could
have been gulled-so diddled, (forgive the pun,
OlSIeSp6CLs
wretches that have disgraced Georgia, and made her
indeed L" sLaUe Skate," had but object in view
the control of the Offices in the gift of the people
hence the Wings in body shouted GLORIOUS Union,
Stars and Stripes and cried out that the Demo
Gratis who alone, everywhere stand up for the South
are Disunionsts and Traitors, and thus they fright
ened the timorous into their ranks, by the help of
whom, and the Democratic ofice-hunters they hope
to retain power.
Do you think, Mr.. Diddle, any wing will he in at
from State. this constitution
al humbug meeting
Never! They were all let into the secret, before
the humbuggery begun, they were all told and given
understand that it was but gultrap, catch sill
ly Democrats. to aid them in putting down the De-
mocratic Party-a party, as old as the Government
party, that has made the great people that We are
party, that has maintained the rights of the
States, and thereby the rights of the weak against
the powerful and depend upon it, when the party is
finally put down, Liberty will expire on this Con-
tinent-the Union will not be worth preserving-it
will become putrid mass, in which none can -four
Ish and be happy, save reptiles, and those unclean
birds, that fatten on corruption.
Yes Mr.. Diddle, let the wicked men, that sent you
here, predominant, and the Union is at an end new
er before has there existed such a corrupt combna-
ton in this country In all the party wars, that have
cnnvused this peope-through all the scenes of
threatened Notification and secessione for the last
seventy years. what party BEFORE became so lost to
decency, stepped in corruption, in love with
basphemy, as to dig up the holy remains of WASH !
ngton, to be hoisted the orgies OF faction upon
their party standards, to be used, like some mounte-
bank priest of the middle age exercising the Devil
with the relicts of the dead During all the violent
and bitter contests between the old Federal and De-
nocrac parties, (unt the former disbanded and alb
ured their name,) neither dared to shock the pub
lie sense to claim Washington, or his memory, as
Of, against either party all admitted he was In the
heart of all, and belonged to all, wicked |
enough to think of calling upon father, to make |
hateful war upon his own children! 1t has been re-
served for the who deluded you, and such as |
you, Mr. DIddle, to brave the shame, and embrace
The blasphemy, of called upon the ghost of that good
man, to curse his own children and aid in their I'M
holy objects of power and plunder!! Doyou ihink,
# Washington is now permitted to regard, and take
an interest in the affairs of this world, he behods
with Indifference the wrongs inflicted on his beloved
nome, and the home of his fathers .nay-do you be-
eve that while he the North first raising the |
black flag of sectional prescription and aggression,
1angering the peace and safety of his Southern
rymen, he denounces, before the chancery of Heav-
IN, as traitors, his Southern chiiden Do you
hear that just man, before that dread tribunal,
1emning resistance to oppression, and pleading the
cause Of the oppressor Him who proclaimed to the
world, at the head of the army, and maintained with
MS sword, this immoral declaration:
When long train of abuses and usurpatons i
preserving invariably the same object, evnces de-
sign, in any government, to reduce people under /
absolute despotism, it is thei right, it is their duty
TO throw off such government, and to provide new
qua -ds for their future security? "To suppose such
thing, is no better than blasphemy, and yet the
wicked that sent you here, saying this, they
ire vile enough, and hardened enough, to thus pol
ute and prostitute the and fame of Washing
on, to give themselves power! Alas Alas! well
hath the poet said
"No man, however great,
Can TELL to what vile use
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