Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-07-21


wasting the county of Ashe. 1 had the pleasure of
listening to their discussions and have concluded
to favor your readers with short sketch OF their
positions and the impression so far as can judge
their visit has left in this part of the district.
First and foremost with Col. Puryear get is
the public lands. 1t matters nothing with him. that
the views of the President are acquiesced IN, IN
most localities while the old hobby contains any
potency for effect in his district Even here the Col
will find it has lost its power to charm and since
the recent expostions by Mr.. Scales, tearing away
its imsy guise of plausibity, it may be laid aside
as wholly unfit for
Col. Puayear defends at great length his vote on
the Nebraska, Kansas BILL though he evidently holds
the laboring oar, and fails to satisfy even his
friends. He denounces the repeal of the Missouri
COMPROMISE line as a violation of plighted national
faith and admits he would have voted against the
BILL even with the Clayton amendment. These
positions Mr. Scales exposes with decided effect He
shows that before this, the North had repeatedly
denounced and repudiated this same Missouri Com
promise and in fact never admitted its authority
cep when it suited their purpose to annoy the South
That the qcstion definitely settled by the Com
promise of 1850, and this bill did nothing more than
give practical effect to that compact, using Its
very language. He showed how inquitousy Col.
Ps. views tended to shut out that delightful coun-
ty from the Southerner, with his property, when
our rights there fully equal with the North.
In spirited parallel he drew picture of the COM
pany in which Col P. found himself in thus voting,
and the men that were opposed to him; numbering
the side all the abolitonst and free soilers,
South. Col. Puryear asks with seeming confidence
what practical good result to the South from
this bill To which Mr.. Scales replies, that to all
human appearances another slave State will be ad-
ded to this Union and Judging from all the elections
in Kansas there is no doubt Of it. Besides that-it
is asserting and maintaining great principle that
may the Union.
Col Puryear tho not Know Nothing, has fully
identified himself with that order. He endorses
their platform, defends their oaths of secrecy and
sees nothing Objectionable in the dark lantern
dwells with evident symptoms Of alarm the per-
scouting Catholics, and insists upon the necessity
of immediate and decisive action to keep them un9er.
To test the sincerity of these fears Mr. Scales asks
him if he has never voted to place Roman Catholics
in office. In answer he admits that he has-that
he voted for Judge Manly in 1910, against demo-
crat and would do the same thing again under like
circumstances. He is in favor of excluding all for
egners from the ballot box, for all time
You may we'll imagine these positions do not escape
without thorough exposure. But, will not at
tempt to follow Mr. Scales in the process of dissect
ing this worst of all isms Suffice to say it was &C
complshed with the hand of a skillful though not
merciful surgeon. His soul does not spare for its
crying, notwithstanding its piteous contortions--
oath bound political secrecy has few defenders
among the mountains of the 9Th district. The air
here is too pure for such Gorgon-so the
ses of our citizens.
Mr.. Scales has golden opinions by his visit
to Ashe. His friends here and their name is le-
gon, are in the best spirits calculating upon large
y increased majority over the vote two years ago.
SPECTATOR.
JEFFERSON, N. c., 9th'July 1856.