Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-06-17
PARTY MOVEMENTS At THE NORTH. !

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The exact form and pressure which parties may
receive before the next Presidential may
still be matter ofdoubt and speculation put recen
Developments have already rendered It certain Ina
the elements for the construction OF some sort Q
party likely take the place at the North at least
Of the now thoroughly disorganized National W hie
party are rapidly being collected, in view OF the
next great contest y fear 100 tnat these elements
solve themselves into great sectional anti-savery
and anti-Southern organization, as wetin name as
in fact Even while voting in body against the Flu
ritiye Slave Law and the Nebraska Billy wing poll.
ticians have heretofore made professions Of natlona
feeling however hollow; now, ws believe that even
It's semblance is to be cast away and attempts MAGE
to rally every ISM and wing of opposition at the
North, for the formation Of great sectional party,
with the view of operating upon the Congressional
elections and securing the Presidency
The recent rise and progress of the :" hnow-Noth-
ings which, apart from the veil of mystery thrown
around It is neither less than the oio Ma
tive American party of 844, combining the elements
Of opposition to all citizens of Foreign birth, with
those of prescription toward the members OF the Ro-
man Catholic persuasion has afforded some GROUNDS
of speculation in regard to the aims, op]ects anu
constitution of that Organization, which specnla-
tons are now pretty nearly obsolete as these have
been very plainly developed in recent elections, IN
which that ASSOCIATION has taken part and its wor
thy of remarks that In all cases in which their Hhu
ence has been felt, it has been with the effect OF
securing the success of the Wing candidates; and
in all cases at the North where such candi,
dates have been so successful they nave STOOD
upon ground openly and avowedly antl-Southern
Indeed not the btterest "Know-Nothing OF all the
Know Nothings" could have launched tiercer de-
nunciations against the Irish Kerns tn an did Ihe-
odore Parker Wendell Phillips and the Anti-Slavery
convention at Boston, against the same, VINO, as
United States Soldiers called out IN defence OF
law when threatened to be set at naught IN the at
tempted rescue of Burns and their denunciatons did
stop with these soldiers, but included all citizens
Of Irish Birth, who it seems did not sympathise with
their incendary movements and appeals, but on the
contrary, in the natural excitement of their feelings
arising from the murder of Bachelor, may have
used threatening language with reference to the real
murderers-the cowardly meters to murder Parker
and others. Even Greedy and Beecher, the great
Philanthropasts, who sympathise SO warmly with
all the world and the rest of mankind, at Il stance
are willing to swell the cry, and swelling it since
their abolition vagaries have been numerically
handled by Mitchell and Meagher in the " Citizen"
These people are now as good "Know-nothings" as
need bc
At a time when events may at any moment hurry
US into war about Cuba, in which England, con-
stantly Jealous of our growing power, would gladly
interfere to cripple if she dared, nothing could
better play into her hands, and those of her Adolf
ton enissaries and propagandists than to stir up
mutual heart-burnings and suspicious between ma
tive citizens and those adopted Ones whose impulses
would lead them to rush to the standard of the conn
try in case of any outbreak with that arch propa-
RandiSt of freedom for negroes and oppression Tor
white men.
Tho recent municipal election in Philadelphia ex
hbted pretty fair instance of the ANAL galnaton OF
these isms Robert I. Conrad, the Mayor elect of
the consolidated city, was nominated by the W hgS
The was nominated as per agreement, by the know
Nothings '-as per agreement also, he was chatechi
sed, and came out against Nebraska-but he was al
so nominated by the Maine Law men, Vaux, the De
mocratic candidate, ran simply as Democrat, and
although the Democratic party much stronger
than any single organization opposed to it. yet it suf
feredsa Waterloo defeat, from combination of the
whole. Opposition to the South was brought into |
it Anti-foreign feeling was brought into t-every
thing that could awaken prejudice or gain votes.
The result is before multitude of factions has
over one party The same thing to a |
extent took place in 1874 but now the
ramications of the plan broader and deeper and
more extensive operations contemplated
In the election some tine since, in the State of
Connecticut, which has since borne fruit in the cleo
tion of one Wing and one Freesol United States
Senator from the State, although the Democratic
candidate forGovernor outnumbered his Wing compe-
litor by many thousands of votes yet he pre-
vented from receiving clear majority by the vote of
the asms especially the Free-soilers; and in the Lee
glSature, the combination of all the asmS secured
zebra striped majority by which the Wing candidate
for Governor although so far behind on the popular
vote, was yet chosen, and all the the other offices
divided among the coalition, the main element of
which was Northern sectionalisn.
The sans game tried in New Hampshire, but
without SUCCESS. The Legislature of the State has
net and chosen Democratic officers, over both Wings
IND freeSolieFS, who held joint caucus
A careful survey of the aspects and developments
IF Northern politics will show that similar agencies
ire at work all the surface of that great divis
on of the Union the objects and tendencies of which
ire towards the consolidation of a great conglome
ated party, deriving strength from every ism, and
promising pap to the hungry of all, yet having one
ailying point in opposition to the South COM
non opponent against which to wage war-the De-
nocratic party-at least so far as the President is
he representative of that party. The "Know-Noth-
nv her
md the South, among them all, find friends only in
hose who have boldly stood up at the risk of oblo-
luy and political extinction at home for what they
believed to be equality and constitutional right.
Some slight changes may occur but we sincerely
believe that project of this kind is foot How far
may be carried out. time alone can tell. 1t will
'ring things to the tesit will separate the wheat
rom the chaf, and show the country and particu-
ary the South what to depend upon. That the
Democratic organization will pass unscathed through
hIs ordeal which has already proved fatal to the
hig party, cannot pretend to say; but that it
'tH pass through it and forth refined and pu-
lhed, we have an abiding confidence. But it is not
be denied that we must look forward to terrible
no exciting tmes-to the cry of repeal-to the
hrenzy of sectionalism-to all the bad agencies of
ad and ambitious men,
Our Wing readers may think that we have color
q the sketch too deeply, far the affiliations
Their former party associates at the North are
oncerned. We would be pleased to think So but
e cannot The facts are before U.S. and we fear the
snits VIII come too soon, to prove the correctness
our conclusions.
Wilmington Journal