Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-09-13
UNFOUNDED CHARGES ANSWERED.
A friend writes us from Chatham County, under

a
date Sept. 6th follows:
"Since the excitement of the late elections has
subsidized other subjects agitating the public
mind in this section. 1t is said the great question
which is to divide the country in the future will be
Professionalism and Roman Catholicism and that the
Democrats coaescing with the Catholics You,
Mr. Editor, represented as having Catholic intlu-
ence in the Standard office indeed, it is charged by
some that you are one yourself You are at liberty
to use this you may see fit. p"
Rumor, with her hundred, and may add bra
zen tongues, hesitates at nothing, We obliged
to our friend, who of course does not believe these
rumors, for the information he has given 1t fur
nshcs occasion for the correction of several mstate
ments, which are being circulated by Wings with
the view of prejudcing and injuring the Standard
We heard, a day or two since, that it was rumor-
ed that we had Know Nothngs in employment
as printers, and that intended to discharge our
Clerk, who Catholic, in order to crafty them;
and then again we hear from Chatham, that this
Clerk, with his "Catholic influence is about to
prove an overmatch for both Editor and printers!
Now the truth is, neither a Know Nothing
nor Catholic; nor do we expect to be. we are
a Democrat. We stand upon the Declaration of
independence and the Constitution of the United
States, which guarantee freedom of speech and the
right of all human beings of all races to worship
God according to the dictates of their conscen-
ccs We hold that the only really free country in
the world is that in which there is union between
Church and State; hold that this is according to
its organic law, neither Protestant nor Catholic
country; and it is q free country because Of thaS
We not for foreigners, or for adopted citizens,
or for Catholics against natives and Protestans but
for Justice to ALL and for the rights of ALL We de-
precate any thing like contest war in this coun-
try between races and religions; and shall oppose
every thing from whatever quarter it may come,
which may have a tendency to such result.
1t is true we have in employment Clerk who
is an Irishman by birth, and Catholic. We en-
poyed him because he suited US, and we shall retain
him just as long may choose to do so. We
did stop to inquire whether he believed as we do
in religious matters. He has been in the United
States fifteen years, and was engaged for seve-
raj years in the marine service of the country, hay
ing been on duty in Florida during the Seminole war.
lie is aborious, quiet, inoffensive citizen-ntelli-
gent in the discharge of his duties, and devoted to
the Democratic party His chief crime, in the esti
nation of certain small Wings, is that he is Dem
ocrat and his second that he is foreigner by birth
and Catholic. But Wings, who use this charge
against u.s. forget or conceal the fact that recently
in the absence the Edtorofth RaleghRegster that
paper was conducted by gentleman foreign born,and
d
In the Standard. We might have taken advantage of
this toexcite prejudice againsthe Register esab-
lishmen but scorned to do so; and refer to it
now only in seifdefence, and not with view Of CEN
surfing that paper, of rejecting on the person who
supplied the Editors place during his absence. The
only noticeable point in the matter, aside from the
contrast we have exhibited between the two papers
in this respect is that of the Registers consistency
a consistency shown by sympathizng with the Know
Nothings in one breath, and in the next employing,
as its temporary head, person of foreign birth and
a Catholic.
Our Correspondent says it is charged that the
Democrats coalescing with the Catholics. This
charge is unfounded-it is a weak invention of the
enemy. The Democrats are just where they were in
the days of jefferson and Jackson. They for pro-
tecting all Churches in the enjoyment of their rights
under the Constitution, but the allies of none.
They are opposed now as then, to a union of Church
and State. They would protect all and prescribe
none; but they woud!oppose any effort on the part of
ALL to obtain political power and control Is not
this the true ground? Who says nay? The Dem
ocras the first to expose and denounce danger
Coalitions whenever however formed they
will be the last to form coalitions with sects, or
Churches, or secret Organizations. They salts
fed with their principles as known and read of all
men; and their chief efforts are directed to the pre-
servaton and perpetuaton of those principles in their
excellence and purity. Appeals to sectarian feelings
coalitions with sms-attempts to array, for polit-
ical profit, class of the people against another
these things from which all good Democrats turn
away. Wings may act thus without exciting much |
surprise in the public mind for the course of the
Wing or Federal party has been since the days of
the elder Adams, but little better than tissue of
isms and of efforts to WELD the prejudces and pas
sions of the many for the promotion and benefit of
the favored few.
Remember the words of Jefferson, uttered in his |
first Inaugural Address "Equal and enact Justice |
to aUmen Of whatsoever state persuasion religious
or POLITICAL.
a. We learn that the North Carolina Railroad |