Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-05-23
VIRGINTA-MR. WISE.

people Of Virginia. It is the emanation of great
and honest soul, full of confidence in the popular
virtue and intelligence, and looking calmnly to the
action to be taken at the ballotbox Thursday the
oath of May The defeat of the dark-lantern Order
in Virginia will PROSTATE it in the South but strength
en- it in the North The last inducement to concli-
ate the South by false assurances, will have been
swept away and Northern hypocrisy in the Know
Nothing ranks on the question of slavery will at
once give place to open, undsguised abolitionsm
and fell hatred of Southern institutions and South
ern men. Wilson, and Hale, and Burke will then
take the reins and control in all things; yet
then the order will not utterly die out in the South
There are traitors in these Southern States-but the
eyes Of an aroused people upon them, and their
doom is written:
ITO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA.
FELLOW CITIZENS
have now finished the canvass of the State. On
the 7th inst at Leesburg, met my last appointment
Inccssant and excessive labors for hundred and
twenty days, have so impaired my health and
strength that must desst from further effort, and
seek rest retire from the "stump" the less reluc-
tantly, because may now justly claim that have
faithfully tried to do my part, and confidently
leave the rest to the unsubdued and unterrlted De-
mocracy and its loyal hosts. 81,
Never were the sound conservative conscientious,
and stakehodins Republicans in Virginia, better
ganized and more aroused than they arc at this mo-
ment and never passion stronger, in life or in
DEATH than is the faith of Democracy in the hearts of
the Virginia people at the present time. 1t has been
deserted by few who have left their party for their
partys good but in turn the very flower of the old
opposition of Whggery respectable in times past for
its profession of conservation and Of its lore laU
and order, nave chosen to elect Democracy with all
the ills they complain of it, rather than fly to those
they '.AHoao not Of"
The personnel of the party was never more purified,
and the numerical majority never larger than it
promises to be at the coming election As in ls i,
the Democracy stood like wall. and rolled back
the tide of federalism, now it stands and will roll
back the tide of fanatics,n 1t will prove itself to
be the uisiSle inuincible 1t is reused, and will
rally to the polls 600 voters more than ever gave
the cira roce before! And the rira rOce will rcnd
the veil from the 'invisibLe" and defend the freedom
and independence of the elective franchise and the
Constitution and the laws against the conspiracy of
tie dark lantern.
1t will forbid any power in Virginia to interpose
between our conscences and our God.
1t will save the Protestant Churches from the pol
luton of party politics, and conserve its power OF
truth for the pulling down of strong holds, tree ON
the tant and violence of persecution. 1t will trust
in God and defend the Christian faith from lntoler-
ance and allow poor humanity to indulge in the vir-
tues of charity and peace earth and good will TO
all men.
1t will not only oppose any Legislative enactment"
to interfere with the rights of members OF any
Church as citizens but it will deny the power of the
Legislature to annul the new Constitution which has
made the act of religious freedom irrepeaable. That
act is now organic ksr And the Democratic conser.
vatism will allow party nor power, to set up
hiqher la,c, and say that man shalt be burthened,
when the Constitution says he shall not be burthened
for reason If his religious opinion, by being excluded
from eligibility to- office, or by removal from once
because of his religion or the place OF his BIRTH
1t will prevent the reputation of the right oil Natu.
ralizaton for which the Nation poured out its blood
and treasure, for three years. in the second war OF
| Independence with Great Britain
1t will defend the State right to regulate citizen.
ship
1t will not deny to the oppressed home, nor pre-
vent the population of these States still requiring
hundreds OF millions of immigrants, who bring with
them hundreds of millions of money.
1t will allow the poor, we'll as the rich, to come
and drink of the waters" Of liberty freely And it
will remember that all are not criminals whom Eu.
ropean despots call such and send away from trou-
| bling their dominion. 1t will take by the hand 9TH
| er criminals besides John Mitchell and feel for 9TH
ers in the prison-houses and dungeons OF the Old
| World besides him who once wastenant OF Omutz !!
1t will jeaIousiy guard against the Foreign anfu.
ence which insdously from Exeter Hall in Old
England to Williams Hall in New England. to in
| wade America in the name of an "American party;
and il will watch the oPpressor not the oppressed,
abroad. as did Nv Washington, Jefferson, Madison and
Jackson J"
It will defend the freedom and independence of the
elective franchise against the :onsp acy which would
bind by test oaths to reject men oi partcu.
lar religious faith, marked tor prescription and
which would not leave suffrage as free to elect as to
reject those whom the constitution and the laws have
| made eligible to office.
1t will especially guard the office of Governor
from the avowed intent to WELD the appointing pow
er so as not to obey the limitations of qualification
for office fixed by the constitution, but to obey rules
of appointment stabished by an irresponsible and
Unauthorized Secret Oigarchy, formed to set up the
Higher Lao of its own prescription Tor its own ex-
elusive and selfish ends.
twill see that the oath itself ofthe Governors Of
flee is not perverted by sectaran bgotry to set up
religious test as qualification for office.
| It will defend the General Government from the
consolidation which would establish itself what is
| called the Independents Of Congress.
1t will defend public policy from the faith OF the
American system, Harbors Rivers, and Pacific Raj
Roads and Protective Tariffs and Internal Improve
ments by the General Government, now again ad
vanced by a Winchester Council of the American
party.
1t will defend the State against agrariansm free
soilism and aboitionism, threatening to invade
the South from Northern and non.saveholding Coun
ellis of Know Nothngism. 1t will defend society
against the decentralization of Cabal to prac
tice Discrimination and perfdy between man and man
And it will defend religion against the demons o
Anti-Chrst!
With perfect and abiding confidence in the powe
of Truth and Democracy-of a purified, exalted an'
triumphant majority for these mpregnable positions
people Icannot do SO without thanking thousands
of the sections Of the State through which I hav'
passed for their uniform hospitality kindness ant
respect and without saying that the chief gratifca
ton with which part from daily intercourse witt
the masses ofthe people, is that have endeavore
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