Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-12-13

improvements.
On motion of Mr.. Singeltary, the House adjourned.
KNOW NOTHINGS- ABOLITIONISTS
1t is difficult to perceive how Southern man can
be stultied in the face of the acknowledged facts
of the recent elections, to doubt for instant the
concurrence of sentiment and purpose between the
Know Nothings and Abolitionists
Apart from the fact that all fanaticisms when their
objects only different and not Numerically OPP
pOsite have natural affiliation for each other
have abundant evidences that in this particular in
stance the general law has found the most complete
exempcation.
Let us take as an illustration the scene of the
great uictOry of the Know Nothings-Massachu-
sets:
EVERY one of the candidates" says the Boston
Courier, Wing paper " who has been known as 4
politician, has been known anti-Savery man,
and it may be safe to say of the whole body of the
nominees of the new party, TINT they are rdnc0rOuS.
ultra and unmitignted 0b0lit,Onists If any one of
them has at any time within half dozen years been
connected politically, with any other party than
antt-sLzrerU party, we should like to know it. The
fTeesOU party has sent out to the voters of Massa-
chusetts its own candidates for Congress, in tho
Vstise Of 'RaOao N0things and with only the frail
covering in which new converts to any faith apt
to ciothe themselves to conceal their former charac
ter from the world"
If anything else was needed to establish the fact
we have stated it would be more than supplied by
the following resolutions passed by the Massachu-
sets Know Nothing Convention, just before the
election.
Resolued That in the present chaotic condition
of parties in Massachusetts,, the only star above the
horizon is the love of human liberty and the d6h0r-
cf slarery, and that 1T is the duty Of all anti
sL1cery to rally around the republican party,
as an organization which invites the united action
of the people on the one transcending question of
slave dominion which now divides the Union.
WHEREAS, Roman Catholicism and slavery, being
alike founded and supported on the basis of igno-
rance and tyranny, and being therefore natural al
AGAINST liberty eQllpht6Q-
ment, therefore be it
Resolred, That there can exist no real hostility to
Roman Catholicism which does not embrace slave
ry its natural cowerker, in opposition to freedom
and republican institutions"
This is the party whose principles and aims,
tain papers in Virginia fostering and whose
success many other papers herald with every evil
dence of deght-this, the party that the people of
Virginia invited to receive into their hearts and
homes there to be cherished till it shall have become
strong as it is venomous, when it will turn upon
its protectors
But let it not be supposed that it was in Massa-
chusetts alone, that the unhoy alliance between the
prosecutors of Catholics and foreigners and the pros
ecutors of the South, was consummated-the same
correspondent of the National Era (Aboliton)
writing from Ercildpun Pa, under date Of the 18th
inst, says
"'rhc signs of the times are cheering as you have
by the of the late election in the old
Keystone State The Douglas rebellion has given
a wing from each of the old parties, with fair
promises of being valuable accessories in the anti
slavery ranks The 'KnOao N0things' too hare done
good aoOrk for as, generally, IN selecting Gnta-Ne-
brdskd, dnti-1dminiStTdti0ncd candidates."
Another correspondent, whose letter appears in
the same issue with the one just noticed, thus writes
from Portsmouth, n. H., under date of Nov. 10th:
"Your course as editor of the Era, in regard to
the new American movement, pains many Of your
old friends and constant readers. Very many OF
them have joined the new order, and they have all
the anti-SIavery feeling they ever had.
You say that this new organization has branch in
the South. I see harm in that; none but the
liberal portion of the South land you say there
may men in the South who disapprove of Slavoryl
will join the order; and they will be in small
minority they will hare to break aooay from old con-
serrGtice paries and aoiW be connected a0ih i6er-
al progressive party" Tin other words, turn aboli-
tonists,) and good must come of the connection.
| do not fear the influence of the South much in
the new order as do the Hunker conservatism of
the North, especially when the soldiers of Liberty
arrayed against it. In EVERY FREE STATE, in the
Lutte elections, the order has aided to help the true
american principle, that cannot hold control
orer the bodies or souls Of his. telloao-man."
The same issue of the Era-that received yester-
day-contains third letter from a correspondent in
W Worcester, Massachusetts,; who signs himself g Lib
crty, and speaks strongly either of the above
in favor of the support of Know Nothingism, by
Aboltonists and Freesoilers
Another correspondent and opponent of the
ORDER though declaring his objections, paren-
theticay and with evident satisfaction observes:
1T cannot be disguised, however, that large num-
bers of the Freesoiers, embracing of their best
talent, have connected themselves with the secret
order. But" the writer pointedly asks shave these
renounced their antiSlavery views and feelings in
their seal against foreigners? Not at all, if we
trust to what they tell u.s."
Such are the sentiments of the subscribers of the
National Era, and such we undertake to say are the
sentiments of the Freesoilers everywhere
If Southern men willing 20 trust their insttu-
tons, their peace and their happiness into hands like
these, they richly deserve to lose them all.