Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-08-08


! ed some months ago in Household Words, in which
4 new and curious view is taken of the principles
and practice of the Prohibitionsts The position ia
ken by the writer is that the Maine law and its
geners refer and defer exclusively to the o0rst
bers OF society, passing over, as matters of no mo-
ment, the comfort and convenience of the best The
question, is not " what do the mechanic and his
family want and deseve?" but " what will the vag-
abond idler, drunkard, or jabird turn to bad
account? AS ifthere anything in the wide
world which the dregs of humanity will turn to
good account" The art of writing is CONVEX ted
by the hand of the fOrger into positive evil,
and there is scarcely any gift of God product of
mans industry and ingenuity, which may not be
prositituted to criminal purposes The following Illus
ration from the article referred to is forcibe and
amusing:
"Job Smith suffers heavily at every turn of his
le and at every inch of its straight course too, from
the determnd ruffanism in which he has more
part than he has in the blood royal-Six days of
Jobs week are days of hard, monotonous, exhaust
ing work Upon the seventh Job thinks, that he,
his old woman and the children could find it in their
hearts to walk in garden, if they might look at
picture, plant, beast of the forest, even
a colossal toy made in imitation of of the won
ders of the world Most people would be apt to
think Job reasonable in this. But up starts Britain
MIA, tearing her hair and crying, Never never !!
Here is Slogans with the broken nose, the black
eye and the bull dog What Job Smith Slog-
gins will abuse Therefore Job Smith must not use
So Job sits down again in killing atmosphere, lit
tie weary and out of humor, leans against post
all Sunday long.
cit is not generally known that this accursed Slog-
gins is the evil genius of Jobs life. Job never had
beer or bottle of spirits. What he and his family
drink IN that way is fetched in very small portions
indeed from the public house. However difficult the
Westminster Club gentlemen may find it to realize
such an existence Job has realised it through many
long year; and he knows infinitely better than the
whole Club can tell him. at what hour he wants his
drop of beer and how it best suits his and
convenience to get it. Against which practical con-
of TNIN'S nnJo hor hnTr
shrieks tenderly Slogans! Slogans, with the bro
ken the black eye and the bull dog will go to
ruin'-as if he were going anywhere else - if
Job Smith has his beer when he wants it, So Job
gets it when Britannia thinks it good for Sloggins to
let him have it, and marvels greatly.
But perhaps he marvels most when, going invit-
ed, in immense type, to go and hear the Evangelist
Of Eloquence, or the Apostle of Purity q have
tced in such invitations rather lofty not to say auda
cious titles, he strays in at open door, and finds
parsonage Oh stage, crying aloud tor him. Behold
me Il! I, too am Slogans L likewise had broken
nose, black eye and bull dog. Survery me we'll
bull dog. /, formerly Sloggns, now Evangelist Cor
Apostle as the case may be) cry aloud in the will
derness unto you, Job Smith, that in respect that
was formerly Slogans and am now Sanity therefore
you, Job Smith, (who never Sloggins OF in the
least like him. shall, by force law, accept what
accept, deny what I deny, take upon yourself Ny
shape, and follow Me- Now it is not generally
known that poor Job, though blest with an average
understanding and thinking any putting out of the
way of that ubiquitous Slogans meritorous &C
ton highly to be commended, never can understand
the application OF all this to himself, who never had
anything in common with Slogans, but always
NPominated and abjured him."
REVOLUTIONARY REMINIscENcEs.-In the year 1926,
after all save one of the band of patriots whose sig
natures borne the Declaration of Tndepen-
dence had descended to the tomb and the venerable
Carroll alone remained among the living, the govern
ment of the city of New York deputed committee
to wait on the illustrious survivor and obtain from
him, for deposite in the public hall of the city, CO.
Ply of the Declaration of l776, graced and authent
Gated anew with his sign manual. The aged patriot
yielded to the request, and affixed, with his own
hand, to copy of that instrument, the grateful
solemn, and pious supplemental declaration which
follows:
Grateful to Almighty God for the blessings which,
through Jesus Christ our Lord, He has conferred
on my beloved country in her emancipation, and on
myself in permitting me, under circumstances of
mercy, to live to the age of 80 years. and survive
the 6ftieth year of American independence and
tify by my present signature my appreciation of the
Declaration of independence, adopted by Congress
on the 4th of July, 1776, which originally SUBJ
scrbed on the I'd day of August of the same year.
and of which I am now the last surviving sgner,
do hereby recommend to the present and future gen.
erations the principles of that important document
as the best earthly inheritance their ancestors could
bequeath to them and pray that the ciUil and reIi
gious liberties they hare secured to aey country mag
be pe'etuated to remotest posterity and extended to
the ochole family Of man.
OhAIlLEO CAhftOLL, OF CarrOlltOn
AUGUST 2, 1929.
WHAT THE ISSUES WERE IN OREGoN-Oregon will
soon ask (says the Boston POST admission into the
U0on as State; and to show the stuff her men
are made of they have just evnced their fidelity to
the laws, the constitution, and the Union, to the
genuine principles of civil and religious liberty, by
beating gorousy the combined forces of abolition
ism and know-nothingism. This pestilental faction
finds no restng-plac in Oregon Gen. Lane is sent
delegate to Congress by over two thousand major
ity. Here is an example worthy the imitation of
the older States. The Portland Times in reviewing
the contest, says of the nominating convention:
Every issue was made-every ism had its sup
porters. Hazardous as it seemed the nominating
convention openly denounced and boldly challenged
the knownothngs (then in full tide of prosperity
They commended the administration of Gen. Pierce;
they sustained Senator Douglas and the principle of
sefsovereignty; they opposed the abotionists and
their suicidal policy of the restoration of the Mis-
souri, Compromise; they opposed political religion"
The EXPERIENCE OF A KNow-N oTHING.-A citizen |
of Morgan county, Indiana, who had been seduced
into know nothing council gives the result of his
experience to the public, through the MartinsviIle
Monitor, in the following pregnant paragraph:
Reader, you may think you hate know moth |
inglsm but until are initiated into its secrets
and witness something of the height and depth of
its iniquity, the solemn mockery of its rituals and
the completeness of its tyranny, its fend-like ndif
ference and its utter disregard of moral honesty,
you will not know what to detest. Then if you are
true to yourself, your country, and your God, you
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