The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1854-09-29
From the Raleigh Standard.
The Ys.w Party

changes the moon, but it is always the same
the same mats loose construction OF the Consti.
tuition, in its distrust Of the popular intelligence
and power, and in its hatred soi adopted citizens
because they generally Democrats. In lSOO
it bore with prlde its first and real name, under
the elder Adams !; but The American people voted
it out of power and put Jefferson in, who an
nOunced to the world, essential part OF the
Democratic creed, "equal and exact Justice to all
men, Of aChotS0eOeT state or Persu0S1O1 retsg10HS
or, pokiticQL." That contest turned, among other
things, upon the salien law as it was called-a
law which put forei gners under the ban, by en-
towering the President to order such Of them to
to leave the country were supposed TO be con-
spring against the public peace.
There sound reason for this law, SUBJ
sequent events demonstrated, and it was repealed,
and The President who approved and sustained it
was defeated, as we have stated, by Thomas JEFF
terson. Some Of the same set OF men-Feder
aliss-who declared that farmers and mechanics
were more fitted to make laws than a black
smith was 10 mend watch, were especially bitter
towards all adopted citizens, while all OF them
shared in the spirit of persecution which tho alien
law encouraged; and the expresson-" down
with the red mouthed Democratic Irish was
common in their political circles and assembages.
After Jef+rson's day the Federalists assumed
the name of National Repubcans-next, in the
days of Jackson, they we're an-Jackson and
Clay men-then they were Wings, and then anti
Van Buren, and White men-next, they were
ha rd-cder and Harrison men-and then again
Clay Wings, with a platform of principles, op.
posed to Texas and sympathizers with Mexico in
her war against this country. Next we find them
no. party Taylor men; and then again (or Scott,
the nominee Of the Seward influence, and putting
in their claim for the "rich Irish brogue " and
" the sweet German accent" Every thing by
turns, and nothing long, so far as appearances
concerned, has been their motto but all the
while they have been Federalists-lhe allies, more
or less, Of anti-slavery men and abolitionists-
the fomenters of sectional strife and dscord-the
actors in, or the apologsts for, the Hartford Con.
vention and its movement to form league be.
tween Great Britain and the United Stdtes, and
thus relieve the latter from the so-called odum of
slavery and the responsibility for what they called
/" Jim Madison's war THE friends of adopted
citizens who would vote with them, as in the case
of the g Irish brogue " and the 6 German &C.
cent" but The inveterate foes Of such as had the
independence to vote against them; and now,
when it Is apparent that the Wing party as ma.
lonal party is in imminent danger of being dis.
organized and broken up, we find organ-
cation, new party, based the old feeling of
opposition to foreigners and Catholics, the object
of which is to perpetuate the Wing party as
national party, or at least to keep ii in existence
until the campaign of 1856. Then, if we no:
mistaken in the signs Of The times, the. scenes OF
1910 are to be re-enaced on still larger scale.
The pre- JUDGES and passions of the people are TO
be appealed to--the Know Nothlngs, as they are
called, to be in active existence and full ope-
ration; and The Wing organization, thus ostensir
bly, kept up, is to be founded really upon hatred
to foreigners, intolerance in religious matters,
and opposition to the rights Of man. Wing tri.
umphs, If won at all, are to be won in this way.
We again warn all good and true Democrats
against this new party. 1t is Federalism in dis
guise-Federalism in a new shape. for that ele.
ment of evil to our institutions, be it known, can
take as MANY shapes, and present many
poets for purposes Of deception and imposition,
as Satan hmself assumed on his way from Pan
demonium to tempt and destroy our first parents.
Know NothlngIsm begins with fasehood, for, as
we understand it, no who is member is free,
under his oath, to admit the fact; its members
assemble under cover of the night, and who
when they will strike no one can tell its object
is not, like that of the Masons and Odd Fellows,
and benevolent, but political and selfish
and, as its history in Maine and Pennsylvania
shows, it is composed mainly Of fanatic Wings,
and its efforts directed to the advancement Of
Wing measures and Wing politicians IL IS q
ne,O party founded an old principle Of Feder-
aliSm :; and no Democrat can belong TO it and
act with 1t for any considerable time, without find
ing that he has, in great measure, lost 81 ht Of
his principles and been used tor the advancement
of the selfish projects Of the designing and ambi-
tious. And wherefore, we ask, should any Dem.
ocrat seek for better party than his own? What
is to be gained by going into new or strange par
ties ! What good is to be obtained by such
course? Is North Carolina in danger from Cath.
oIic influence? Ask those Wing leaders who SO
sought in 1884 to change our State Con.
sution, with the view among other things, of
the Catholic CASTOR to hold Office
ask them, and if they be Know. Nolhings, see if
they do not hang their heads for shame Fear of
Catholic influence ! Why, look at the few thous-
ands among us-do ye SILVER with fear, we men
OF the nineteenth century, Prosecuted, scattered,
feeble, how could they, if they would, band for
the destruction Of our liberties? And think you
that these men, il they are Catholics, are in love
with desposm? What motive can they have,
who have escaped from despolism elsewhere, to
endeavor to fix manacles on your limbs and on
their Oacm ? Fear Of Catholic influence! Why,
one of North Carona's most iuslrous dead was
born and died in that Church and his father
Catholic before him, baptized that son in his own
hearts blood he fell with him in his arms near
Newberne, pierced with British bullets. Foreign
influence! Have you forgotten Lafayette, the
friend of Washington And France, the Catho.
lie nation who aided Washington and the Colonies
against Protestant nation of our own blood
And De Kalb, the foreigner, who fell fighting in
battle Of Camden, SCARED and bleeding, while
Gales, the native commander, was seeking safety !
in flight =! Let justice be dore, though the heav.
ems should fall. Be Pr0test1Nts If aaou 1yiX ami