Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-07-19
THE LAST OF WHIGGERY.

ly it is true but then there be doubt of it's
position as defined in its issue Of Wednesday last
And so Whiggery has at last openly avowed its
sympathy with and its afiation for the old Federal
doctrines of the Adamss, by which foreigners were
excluded from the country ana reign of ter
established over the conscences of men. 1t is
high crime, it seems, for person to be Catholic
in free country like is!-men and women who
worship God according to the dictates of their own
consciences, are to be prescribed dangerous and
marked as the enemies of civil freedom the men,
ory of the pure and immortal CASTOR is to be insul
ted by bitter crusade against the Church which
commanded his earliest and latest devotion-sect is
to be arrayed against Sect friend against friend the
native born citizen against the adopted citizen in
order that Whiggery may receive rejuvenescenee-a
little more help-ad from any and all quarters in its
efforts clutch the reins of public rule,
from which it has been so summaify and indignant
ly put away by the people Of the State! We are
no Catholic, nor do we expect to be. We think
it expedient-probably important that more
should be exercised in appointments to Office, that
adopted citizens may not obtain, from any cause
by any means undue advantages over native born
citizens but are opposed now, we intend to
be hereafter to all attempts to array these classes of
our citizens one against the other, and to any and all
movements calculated to commence in this free land
Var Of Religions, contest between persons
who worship the Alnighty with different orders of
Faith or under different forms.
This outcry against Foreigners is raised mainly be
it borne in mind against the Germans and the Irish
and the for it is, they are, an nine out
Of ten, Democrats That is the secret.
"Know Nothingism what is it? 1t was brought
forth in the hot-bed of Northern isms-it ranks a
mong its leading members in the free States 1boli
tionistSand intdels-t moves with the secrecy of
darkness, and executes its work by commands from
which there is no appeal. What honest, ndepen-
dent fearless citizen can be safe in a community
where it's doctrines predominant and its members
rule? What assurance is there that, if encouraged
and built up, it will not insinuatc itself into
Juries and Courts of Justice-aye, even into the
pupits sacred to the living God? We solemny
warn all good and true against it. 1t is spirit
of discord of feud of bitterness, of secret wrath
spirit of blast and heat like the srocco, and not
of the general earth blessing air and genial sun
shine But such as it is, and whatever it be, Whig-
| gerry in North Carolina, spoken for 1y the Regis
ter seems willing to court its influences and profit
| by its power!
| But, while holding these opinions, not the
apologsts of those foreigners just landed or OF adop-
ted citizens in the free States who seek occasions of
quarrel even with these Know Nothings," and who
! have of late been Involving themselves in fights,
! riots, and bloodshcd with Protestants and natives
born. Both of these classes of population are to
blame for their conduct in this respect but the
dy is stern enforcement of the law, and if neces-
sary to effect it. the use of the musket aud bayonet
If the Know Nothings" attack the foreigners, let
them be punished if the foreigners attack the Know
Nothings" LOT them be punished also, and let quiet
and order be maintained at whatever cost
"Know Nothngism and Whiggery will the
Register tell US what is proposed to be effected in
this State by such triumph? Will it give us our
sheer of the public lands? Will it arrest the plum
der" of these lands, which that paper has OBJ
served progressing so fearfully paper, but not in
fact, ever since President Pierce elected? Will
it exclude the arstocratic lawyers" of whom that
paper Just now to stand in such signal dread,
from al places of honor and trust? Will it make
the forests vocal with the voices of children at Com
mon Schoos-forests silent but for the hootngs
of the owl or the song of the whippoorwill? VII ii
re-esta5lish Whiggery an po,cer' That is the ques
ton; and if that paper thinks it will, it will go fol
it, and urge it, and demagogue for it, whatever il
may be- or howsocver great the evils may be which
it will bring along with it.
But this thing will die; and Whggery in this
State will go out like exhausted taper just as the
sun shall 90 down on the third of August. This
thing will die as all things must perish which have
other foundations than the Word of God and th
Constitution of the United States. 1t may prevail il
certain localities, and scourge good citizens for
time; but period of general adherence for it vii
come, and it will pass away,
| "Like to q rolled syllable
| Of midnight thunder from the coming day.
"Know Nothingism " and Whiggery Ia ant
| ashes. :"
We congratulate cotemporary that he has a
last found subject worthy of his pen.
The best lever for raising society is education.
Fay. Argus.
True enough-and yet you are endeavoring t.
make Governor out of man who has been som
twenty-five years at school and is not yet educated
Will he ever be? Gen. Dockery's chances fer oh
the Editor of the Argus; the people can sec 70
themselves the difference between the men. By tn
way did not the Editor of that paper write Genera
Dockery's letter of acceptance? Is he not a BLiss
ul adjunct of this General, another Colonel, br
. of the regular line, was of another General9
OLD PoINT. A letter from Old Point Comfol
states that it is very gay, and that there is yer
large company there. 1t is added that owing to th
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