Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-06-06
WHAT THE HERALD THINKS OF IT.
The New York Herald, referring to the great Dem


ocratc victory in Virginia, says:
"The seventy-two thousand enrolled members of
the Virginia lodges, which, in conjunction with the
oursde wings and democrats, were to have carried
the State by from fifteen to twenty thousand major
ity, have vanished into the air. If instead of this
promised triumph, they defeated the prestige of
the invisible invincibes' is broken-they are re-
duced to their starting point-their present organi-
zaton does not answer its purposes-they now stand
a confused agglomeration of dscordant factions
for in failing before their Sebastopo they have lost
the Crimea.
Why is this? How happens it that the grand ex-
pectaions of the Know Nothings in the Old Do
minion have been extensively dished? 1t is easy
to explain The numerous and suicidal amalganations
of the Know Nothings of the North with the aboii-
toniss and free soers, especially as. developed in
the disgusting and reasonable proceedings Of the
late, "ngger worshippng" Legislature of Massachu-
setts, have done this business in Virginia As we
have repeatedly urged upon this new party, It is
now abundanty proved, that something more than
of determination against the Roman Catholics,
and the prescription of foreigners by birth, and
something BETTER more open, and more definite than
this mysterious "third degree" upon the slavery
question, is required for the building up in this
country of great and powerful national party. 1t
is manifest that although Know Nothing
coalition with free soers may rc-elect Seward to
the Senate from New York, carry the States of Penn
sylvana, and Ohio, and Michigan, and Indiana, and
even New Hampshire, and although with the adop-
tion Of the disunon infidcl and nigger loving abom
nations Of Lloyd Garrison and Theodore Parker,
it may secure a clean sweep to the brotherhood in
Massachusetts, from stem to stern, yet it is clearly
manifest that such triumphs are but waste of am
munition, and can end in nothing but disappont-
ment to all concerned.
The Virginia Democracy stood alone and the
decisive battle, whether the party should live or die,
rested upon the shoulders of Henry A. Wise. There
were defections in the rank and tile-the wings of
the State hailed the invasion of the Know Nothings
/ 1c
checrfully merged itself in the mysterious order
they sold themselves for mess of pottage which it
seems they have lost-they staked every thing upon
single card; but they counted without their host
Mr. Wise fought the fight with unexampled energy,
endurance, and skill. From his first speech to his
sixtyfifth, he practised the Napoleonic offensive
system of operations and thus Kept his adversaries
upon the defensive from the first to last.
He was appointed to make battle with new enc
my, and he fell upon him at once, pel-mell, and
kept at him to the end of the chapter. If there be
a man in Virginia who was not informed by election
day of all the abolition associations and acts and all
| the nunnery dongs of the Know Nothings of the
North, from the reelection Of Seward to the Joseph
Hiss and the Massachusetts notification law,
then it because he failed to seize the opportuni
ty in not attending some one of the sixty6ve stump
| speeches of Mr.. Wise.
The result (provided that Mr. Wise has triumph
antly carried the State) elevates the champion of
Accomac a head and shoulders above any of the
avalables of the democracy for the succession.
Mr.. WISE from the very brink of destruction, has
saved the day, like Braggs battery at Buena Vista
MAL1GN1rY OF KNOW NorHINGlsM-The Penny
Post, Richmond, the organ of the dark lanterns,
fers in the following vulgar and malignant manner
to Mr.. Wise:
"Fellow citizens, if they the Democracy had
given gentleman to preside over this once proud
Commonwealth, it might have been some alienation
to the nf1iction. But they have selected the very
worst specimen of their party-a ranting Denago.
que, an UNPRINCIPLED RENEGADE, TRUCULENT
BULLY, whose manner, conversation, and general
bearing, denote the brawler which his history proves
that he is-a foul-mouthed slanderer, an unbush-
ing uttercr of talsehoods the very scur, scraping
and refuse of tho political stye!"
How gratifying that such bitter and uncharitable
s,oorn partisans are put down and crushed out
They deserve no sympathy in the defeat which has
| oYertaken them. = -