Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-08-19

t'3SPupliSn lo-elay, rom the richmond Examiner
what purports to be expose of the principles ant
workings OF this secret Order. How much of trutl
there is In this article we cannot say but if an,
member OF the Order considers that injustice ha
! been done, we hold ourselves ready cheerfully {,
publish such statement of facts as may be furnish
| ed u.s.
| This order, we believe was first heard of in on,
of the abolition towns of Massachusetts, It rapid,
gained strength and controlled the elections
Cities, and at last carried Philadelphia. The Wings
OF Pennsylvania closely connected with it. Their
candidate for Governor, Pollock, being member OF
the order, and standing likewise on the platform Of
Incorporating opposition to the rights of the slave
holding States. The last Pennsylvania gives
number OF important facts on the subject and among
other things the first grip of the ORDER as follows
! :" In shaking hands you take the person with
whom you are shaking in the usual mode, and press
the end of the middle finger the side of the knuc-
kle joint of the little finger, of the person with whom
you are in the act of shaking hands. After you have
| given this gentle Know Nothing squeeze, you let
your hand fall gently by your side, when the person
If your companion is a Know Nothing he will reply
| 81 don't know do your" If he is not member OF
the order he will in all probability when you ask
the question say, "get what?" You will then turn
1t OFT by referring to part of his Dress and say
that breastpin, that coat" like article Sc
lecting any item about him which would be likely
to attract attention. The instructions in this grip
given Immediately after the main oath is taken
in the lodge. After the candidate is instructed in
the grip, the president gives him the pass word, by
which he is enabled to enter lodge, which pass
word, as we have already said, is "Traitor, beware
of No. l3
On entering lodge you go to the outside door,
and make any number of raps you please to draw
the attention of the guardian, who when he hears
the rappng, puts his ear to Aperture in the door,
and you ask in a low voice "what meets here to-
Guardian ar vo1
then give him the first word of the pass word which
is Traitor" This word being correctly given you
pass to the inner door, where you give four distinct
raps, and when the guardian appears you give the
balance of the pass word, which is, " Beware of No.
49," This being correct you permitted to pass
in. You go to the centre of the room and address
the President and Vice President which is done by
placing your right hand upon your left breast and
letting your hand fall carelessly to your side. p"
The same paper gives the following insight into
the workings of the order:
Gas our readers may desire to know something of
the practical political working of the nearious Know
Nothing Order, whose secrets we have partially
posed, shall endeavor in the present article to
supply some information upon this subject. Whe-
Their the Order was originally designed as a means
of successfully attacking the Democratic party We
do not know, but certainly it has been prostituted
to that purpose in this city and State. How2 We
will briefly explain. The leading and influential
spirits of these lodges generally, if not univer
sally, composed of whose ruling political idea,
spirit of hostility to the Democratic party. How
ever much they may profess to hate foreigners,
foreign influence. they hate Democrats and Demo-
cratic influence a thousand times worse, and if no
other method Of successfully warning against
party presented, these men, who may well be
typitied by such political prostitutes Judge Pol
lock and Mayor Conrad, would be ready to kiss the
Pope's big toe from one years end to another and
sing poeans to the " rich Irish brogue" and "sweet
German accent every day of their lives. Such men,
say, generally, the controlling spirits of these
lodges In initiating candidates, of the oaths
Quires them to cote such ticket as is fired upon By
the Order. With this fact the whole secret of the
operation is simply to preserve preponderGnce Of
Wigs and Natices in the Lodges. This easily
be done. Up to certain point an earnest effort is
made to entice Democrats within its leprous en-
brace but after that proportion has been secured all
men inclined to act with party rigi1Ly buck
6alLed and excluded. This whole game is thus
dered very easy one. The Democrats who are
tced into theorder have their hands very nicely tied
and completely in the power of their foes On
all questions of Importance the Wing and Native
American members of course out-vote them. 1t is
the old story of the very polite invitation, {" Wont
you walk into my parlor, says the spider to the y?
1t is true that occasional comparatively trling and
insignificant stations given to original Democrats,
to still better disguise the real purpose of the ORDER
but it is like the turkey and turkey buzzard bust
ness between the white man and the Indian-the
urkeybuzzard is always proffered to the Democrats
In the recent election in this city, the result of the
movements in the Know Nothing lodges eXempifed
the LruCn OF the ABOVE allu lew DeulO-
Gratis who were too wise to be killed off by such
barefaced bambooZlng and butfoonery were bitterly
denounced as traitors and threatened with all the
terrors of Know Nothing inquisition. An active
attempt is now being made to establish throughout
the State lodges on the system those have
here. Agents have been dispatched for that pur
pose into every quarter but have generally met with
Indifferent success The men who are usually Sc
ected to assist in setting the ball in motion in the
different towns the same politicians who in 1852,
only two years ago, were afflicted with terrible agony
by the fact that the Constitution of New Hampshire
contained a religious test yet who now seeking
to establish here in defiance of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania. There is occasion for any man
to join this order to merely crafty his curiosity in
reference to it. for in short time all its secrets will
be patent to the world and any quantity of amateur
bodies may be establish where all the " motions"
and ridiculous performances of the Society, may be
gone through with without any of the guilt of part
cipating in its illegal obligations, without any
cessty for Democrats to throw themselves into the
power of their political foes even by an oath which
is extra.judicial and not binding, for
"Though he commits a sin who swears unto sin,
1t is greater sin to keep sinful OATH"
But it must be borne in mind that in thus attempt
ing to strike down the Democratic party by this sys
tenn some of the most ilustrious members ofthe op
position party must necessarily be sacrificed, and
the same machinery which enables unprinciped
tricksters to strike blow at the Democratic party,
affords them equal facilities for crushing out" the
honest portion of their party, who are their po-
tical rivals. While Know Nothingsm strikes at all
citizens of foreign birth, matter what their merits
or deserts, it strikes not only at Democratic
dency. but at some of the best men in the Wing