Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-10-06


more vile hypocrisy more brazen, and implety more
God-defying never had " habitation or name,
until this party raised its hideous head IN the Union
to disturb its harmony and peace. 1t is now SOW
ing with prodigal hand, its poisonous seeds IN eve
ry community, breaking up churches, creating ire-
concilabe feuds in families, and further, in the lam
guage of John Locke, eInbltteli ing the very 1oun-
tains of social ife Its effects forciby describ-
ed by Judge Longstreet, eminent divine of the
Methodist persuasion, in which he shows beyond
cavi relig has received much injury from politi-
cal interference in spiritual matters.
The feigned opposition to Catholics is based on
the supposition that the Pope claims temporal pow
er over his adherants and that the hunders OF the
Vatican reach the shores of America. Upon this
point the five Catholic Universities of Europe were
particularly: interrogated, and without evasion
or ambiguity denied the civil power of the Pope,
and Bishops Spaulding Kenrick and English corrob.
crate the testimony adduced from those celebrated
institutions of the Church. Judge CASTOR denied it
in our State Convention of 1885. Clerical impos-
tors whose grace is commensurate with their annu-
al stpends, illuminate from their desecrated Pupts
against Catholics, and their hostility to liberty
Hostile liberty when Carroll put his double pledge
to the Declaration of Independence and Lafayette
perilled his life in its behalf Hostile to religious
liberty when they were the first on this continent
to establish it! With the immortal name OF Calvert
is associated the idea of religious olelaton Up
posed to liberty when Roger B. fancy presides over
the Supreme Court, and whose ermine has never
been stained with injustice crime! Talk not OF
hostility to freedom while the memory OF CASTOR
is respected and Judge Manly so ably performs the
iudicial duties assigned him. Proclaim no such SEN
timent when the of the tiara presented
block of marble to the Washington Monument as
profound appreciation of the services of our great
benefactor to add to its sublime proportions the gift
of pious heart, and which was broken to atoms IN
the darkness of night by miserable Know Nothing
mob. So preposterous is the allegation that 1t is
utterly unworthy of further consideration
Paley in his Moral Philosophy, is right when
he SAYS, "persecution commonly ends in general
OI1UhSp infiH plIt U in WI
Dick and Chalmers with singular unanimity hear
tily 1t is in direct conflict with the constl-
tuition of the United States, to establish religious
test in the disposition of Offices to abridge
the liberty of conscience" Our safety is found IN
diversity of religious sentiment, and separation
of Church and State. Let truth and reason combat
the tenets of Catholicism, and my word for It, Pro-
testantsm will have nothing to fear. 1t has con-
quered many obstacles heretofore-its rude chapels
have gone up the frontiers and in the silent
depths of the wilderness, and faiths pure hymn"
has been heard along the wales and the mountains,
along the rivers and in the prares of an Indian en-
pre. Thus let it continue, without the faint OF bl
gotry and intolerance, and its banner flashing like
the bright blade of Occur de Lion, will triumph with
the advancement of its disciples.
In conclusion the operation of tile late Philadel
phia Convention, that Know Nothi.lgisln grew out
of the ruins" of the two old parties, Is wholly in
correct In regard to Whigg.ry, il is and l.ably
true; but far Democracy is concerned, it is
self evident lie 1t is idle to attempt to conceal
nitude surround us. The viglant sentinel upon the
watch-tower has sounded the tocsin, to arouse us
from " mastery inactivity and letlIargy, to
meet the impending crisis n cloud as dark and
threatening as that which hung Pompeii
the terrible commissions of the earthq rake had bur-
red her in its embrace, seems with its raven-like
to overshadow horizon. The patr-
OTIS must be nerved to strike for all that is dear
and precious, holy and valued, liberty will eX-
pire with the decay of a sound and DEMONSTRATING
conservatism. Amid this elemental gloom, when
fear seems to predominant over hope; when fanat
csm is rampant in the land when the folds of a
serpent more powerful than the Python of the In
dies encircle with its deadly power; it behooves
US to calmly and deliberately consider, where we
shall find safety. Not in the Wing party, ami
mated by the matchless eloquencc of Clay and
for it has succumbed to the fell spirit we
so sadly deprcate. Where then the South,
whose peculiar institutions put in jeopardy, look
for that security the Constitution guarantees her?
Only in the national Democracy, whose platform is
the Constitution. The glorious Ark of the Cove
nant of Freedom will be protected by u.s. from the
traitorous hands that would dash it to the carth
and destroy it. Mad fanaticisnl, enbodying in its
creed unyielding hostility to slavery, would make
the sunny South the battle ground of servile insur
recton could its foul hands control the destinies of
the nation. To crush this destructive spirit is the
proud and exalted destiny of the Democratic Party
and for that object it will CALAMITY struggle, until
its mission is accomplished 1t will also Danish from
the land the detestable principles of prescription
and religious bigory, only to rule with the wisdom
which has characterized its past history. No burn
ing Of churches, mobs to control the ballot-box
no pandering to sms," will meet its approval, but
only those timehonored principles under whose
supremacy we have reached our present emnence
and greatness, will receive its undivided support
These doctrines must prevail, or the days Of the
Republic numbered. They must prevail, or the
last chapter in history will be written in char
acters of blood. No pen can portray, tongue
describe, the scenes of horror and carnage which
would inevitably succeed their overtrows. History
FILL Of ol,
be too late. great writer has said :" the history
of the past is but the tombstone of Republics"
w here are the Democraces of Greece? Alas obi |
WON with its blackness of darkness has settled down
upon them forever! Rome too, sleeps in the ceme-
terry of extinct nations, great in arms and
glorious in the perfection of the arts, the sciences,
and the Muses. bears but Wondering columns, bro
ken arches and ruined coonades mournful
of her former grandeur While the
mind dwells with unutteraby painful emotions up
On the decay of past empires, it should not forget
its own country. An ardent devotion to the Union
On the part of her citizens, will bind together in
bonds of adamant. Let confidence be destroyed,
and sectional luminosity engendered, and this grand
hold together with hooks of steel '-laws as
to our national existence, as those
which govern the planetary system, necessary
10 its proper regulation. Disregard any of those
sanc laws, and the golden chain of Union is broken.
"-- Whatever link you strike,
Tenth or ten thousandh, breaks the chain alike"
With an abiding and mistaken hope in the sound |
hess OF the Democratic party; with full knowledge
If its tested devotion to the interests OF the whole
country; with its unquestoned love for the Union
With it's of patriotism and defence embracing all