Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-03-07


lieve they would-to command what is right and
proper under the circumstances, our appeal would
then be against them TO the people of the State
BEAUTIES OF kNOW-NOTHINGISM
Gov. Gardner, the Know-Nothing Governor of
Massachusetts,, makes the following recommenda-
tons in his Inaugural Address:
As common school education, or it's equivalent
is necessary to rightly understand the duties, and to
be competent to properly appreciate the privileges
of free man, recommend a further constitutional
provision, to the effect that person shall be per-
mitted to COW scho cannot read ana serite the Eng
lish language
| recommend an amendment to the Constitution
80 that person shall be ely gible to any office in the
gift of the people who shall not be legal voter in
accordance with the previous suggestions.
The honor of the American flag should be contid
cd only to those who born the soil hallowed
by its protection they alone justly be required
to vindcate its rights. One of my earliest official
acts then will be- if sanctioned the laws require,
by the advice and consent OF the Executive Council,
whom you will select to diSband all military com-
panics composed of persons of foreign birth.
lireconmend to your consideration the cXpeden-
cy Of cXempting ali alien citizens from military duty.
II, in your wisdom, this should be deemed insutfi
cient to meet the designed object, recommend for
bidding by law payment of State bounty to any mil!
tary company which has enrolled. among its members
persons Of foreign BIRTH.
No person is to be allowed to vote who cannot read
and write and yet free negroes, who own certain
amount of property, permitted to vote in most
Of the free States. White men, because they were
born in Europe, are to be required to remain here
twenty -one years before they vote; whereas, a
free negro perhaps fugitive slave, may vote almost
as he touches the soil Of abolition States
The honor of the American flag should be
tided only to those who born the soil, " and
no military company" is to he permitted to en-
rol among its members persons Of foreign birth. !"
How times have changed since the american rcvou-
ton. Then Dekalb, and Pulaski, and Lafayette
and Steuben fought side by side and shoulder to
shoulder with Washington and Greene each pour
ing out his blood, and Lafayette his gold, like
ter in defence Of the common Gberties-the first,
! Dckalb, meeting death on the plains of Camden,
pierced and torn by eleven wounds, while Gates the
native commander, was seeking safety in fight.
There were "persons of foreign birth with WASH
! ington when he crossed the Delaware to fall upon
| the startled lines of the enemy, and to compel a
victory in the face of want and suffering and against
fearful odds-a victory which turned the tide of sue
cess in favor Of the American arms, and inspired
new hopes in the bosoms of the American Colonsts
| aye, VI ohti as We'll aS HatifeS
| born, pledged to each other and united in the noble
resolve to be free die, left the mark of their max
ed feet in characters of blood that stormy night
! on the cr-bound shores of the Delaware. This cry
| of xcusion-of "down with foreigners, was not
then heard as the States of Holland and the Cutho-
lie empire Of France came to our relief! Neither
it heard during the late war with Mexico, when
"perSons OF foreign birth" fought step by step with
natives born at Angostura, at Monterey, and from
the heights of Cerro Gordo to the City of Mexico
when th gal mt Shields, all Irshnan by birth, fell
shot through the lungs, covered with blood in lead
ing the glorious reg gment Of South Carolina against
the foe. His reward has been prescription at the
hands of this new American party; he is "person
of foreign birth" and he therefore defeated or
the Senate few days since in the Legislature of H.
| lnois.
Sir, Washington and Hamilton fought fo~ liberty
and home-you fought for liberty alone, " were the
eloquent words of Judge Toomer to Gen. Lafayette
when he visited Fayetteville in 1925.
The ancestors of the people of Massachusetts, 1ed
from England to escape religious persecution; but
the present descendants of the Pilgrims are the
most intolerant and bigoted of any people in the
United States. And this with Common Schools
freedom Of speech and of the press, free Gospel
and under the sun Of the nineteenth century!
Gov. Gardner, it will be recolected, recently votet
as one of the authorities of Harvard College agans
the appointment of Judge Lorng Professor ir
that College because, United States Commissioner
he aided in enforcing the tugitireslare law. Know
Nothings of the South, behold your-brother!
"OAK CrrY GUARDS" The adjourned meeting
of this company was held on Wednesday evening