Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-09-27
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1r,cH. SATURDAY, SEPT. %, 1854.
THE NEW PARTY.

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ose construction of the Constitution, in its dis
It's W. s. tbe popular intelligence and power, and in
H", .-od of adopted citizens because they gen.
is n nouocrats. In 1900 it bore with pride its
e'"! real name, under the elder Adams but the
's ,r;c,n people voted it out of power and put Jef-
a"'.' :, who announced to the world, as an essen
.,rt Of the Democratic creed, "equal and exact
M to azz,men, Of echatsoecer state or persuasion,
'N1.' ns or 0ozitical" That contest turned, among
.,;ros upon the 'alien law" as it was called
0r' ISr rbich put foreigners under the ban, by en-
.u;,c the President to order such of them to
.rs tbe country as were supposed to be conspiring
met tbe public peace. There was no sound rea-
". sr this law, as subsequent events demonstrated,
S' -. uos repealed, and the President who approx
1.nd sustained it was defeated as We have stated,
Thor,.s Jefferson Some of the same set of men
'r,doraiss-who declared that farmers and me-
.:,, wore no more fitted to make laws than a
,,,,.srith vas to mend a watch, were especially
tor towards all adopted citizens, while all of them
,b,red in the spirit of persecution which the alien
,.r encouraged; and the expression" down with
.lo rod.mouthed Democratic Irish was common
in their political circles and assemblages.
After ,Jetferson's day the Federalists assumed the
u.uoof National Republcans-next, in the days of
1,.lson thew were anti-Jackson and Clay men-
tbon thew were Wings, and then anti-Van Buren
.Dd White 1her-next, they were hard-cider and
Harrison men-and then again Clay Wings, with
nl,tarm of principles opposed to Texas and sym
--:.L in her
trv Next we find them mo-party Taylor men;
and then again for Scott, the nominee of the Sew
ard influence, and putting in their claim for the
rich Irish brogue" and the sweet German ac
rent" Every thing by turns, and nothing long, so
far as appearances are concerned, has been their
motto but all the while they have been Federalists
the allies more or less, of anti-slavery men and
sboitionsts-the fomenters of sectional strife and
ford-the actors in the apologists for, the Hart
ford Convention and its movement to form league
between Great Britain and the United States, and
thus relieve the latter from the so-caed odium Of
slavery, and the responsibility for what they called
"Jm Madsons war the friends of adopted citi-
zns who would vote with them as in the case of the
Irish brogue" and the "Gcrman accent" but the
nyeterate foes of such as had the independence to
vote against them; and now, when it is apparent
that the Whig party as national party is in immi-
nent danger of being disorganized and broken up,
": find new organization, new party, based on
he old feeling of opposition to foreigners and Catho-
les, the object of which is to Perpetuate the Whig
party national party, or at least to keep it in
existence until the campaign of 1856. Then, if we
are not mistaken in the signs of the tines the
scenes of 1910 are to be re-enacted on still larger
scale The prejudices and passions of the people
are to be appealed to-the Know Nothings, as they
are called to be in active existence and full ope
ratOni and the Wing organization, thus ostensibly
kept up is to be founded really upon hatred to for
tsners intolerance in religious matters, and opposi
ton to the rights of man. Wing triumphs, if won
at all, are to be won in this way.
Weagain warn all good and true Democrats against
this new party. 1t is Federalism in disguise
eralsn in new shape; for that element of evil to
our institutions, be it known, can take as many
Shapes, and present as many aspects for purposes of
deception and imposition, as Satan himself assum-
on his way from Pandemonium to tempt and de-
Sroy our first parents. Know Nothingsm begins
Win ialsehood for, understand it, no one who
81 member is free, under his oath, to admit the
hct its members assemble under cover of the night
and who Or when they will strike no one can tell :;
so9Ject is not, like that of the Masons and Odd
f'AoWs charitable and benevolent, but political and
@llSh and, as it history in Maine and Pennsylva-
na SHOWS, it is composed mainly of fanatic Wings,
ana Its efforts are directed to the advancement of
wing measures and Whig politicians. 1T is a ne,o
pry founded on an old principle Of Federalism );
m no Democrat can belong to it and act with it for
a"y considerable time, without finding that he has,
III great measure, lost sight of his principles and
Oeh used for the advancement of the selfish projects
Vi the designing and ambitious. And wherefore,
"easS, should any Democrat seek for better party
'anhs own? What is to be gained by going into
AsS Or strange parties? What good is to be OBJ
ANso oy such course Is North Carolina in danger
"0n Oatnolc influence? Ask those Whig leaders " ho
Earnestly sought in 1884 to change our State Con-
ND'on with the view among other things of permit.
s !he Catholic GAsroN to hold office-ask them,
1a they be Knnw-Nothings, see if they do not
a.. 10 ue'r heads for shame! Fear of Catholic in.
"'e! Why, look at the few thousands among
~ ye shiver with fear, ye men of the nineteenth
n ta'uy! Prosecuted, scattered, feeble-how could
',h they would, band for the destruction of ou,
ues! And think you that these men, if they
ns.. .S'n0ics, are in love with despotism What
,as. a's can they have, who have escaped from des
~. 'li elsewhere, to endeavor to fix manacles or
a.. Nlnos and on their oaon !? Fear of Catholic in
s'nce! Why, one of North Cardinals most illus
h, " ueaa was born and died in that Church ane
h; S'ner Catholic before him, baptized that sor
,,r 'S own hearts blood as he fell with him in his
Po,sl near Newberne, pierced with British bullets
hos: en influence! Have you forgotten Lafayette
pa,ioa 'nu Oh Washington? And France, the Catholic