Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-06-27
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RALEIGH. SATURDAY. JUNE 20. 1855.
A FEW STUBBORN FACTS.

a FEW STUBBORN FACTS.
The evils of which the Know Nothing leaders so
much complain-toMit. the influx of foreigners and
the prevalence of the Roman Catholic fath-are
confined almost entirely to the non-slaveholding
States.
In the fourteen slavehoding States, there about
six millions of white persons, and of these but four
hundred thousand are of foreign birth; these are,
of course all Protestants, with the exception of the
Catholics and they number in these fourteen States
only about two hundred thousand. Five millions
six hundred thousand natives to four hundred thou
sand of foreign birth; five millions eight hundred
thousand Protestants to two hundred thousand
Catholics.
The slave property of the South is worth eighteen
hundred millions of dollars-tha of North Carolina
is worth eighty or ninety millions Its protection
under the federal Consttution-its gradual exten-
sion not by act of Congress, but by the free choice
of the people of the territories when they come to
form State Constitutions and its safety and security
generally, are considerations of paramount impor-
tance to the South.
Are not these things So? Well, Southern Know
Not!in gs went into Convention with Northern Know
Nothings, the avowed object being to provide against
the evil so-called and the influence and control of
Roman Catholics and foreigners. The North said
to the South, aid us in respect to foreigners and
Catholics the South replied this evil as you call it,
and of which you so deeply complain neither seri-
ousy affects nor threatens us; but then as We are
members of the same Union, and brothers in the
same political and social organization, we will aid
you on one condition, and that is, if you will guar
antee US our rights under the Constitution in rela
=. &oo ;f,fo fhoo fo
our injury and ultimate ruin. What was the an
swer of the North? 1t was, zoe a0iU do no such
Ming-szauery is one Of the greatest Of eciIs and
if that be your condition. aoe must separate They
did separate; and now of tle South are call
ed upon to keep up the agitation against foreigners
and Catholics for the benefit Of the North, while
the North, as represented by Know Nothingism, not
only refuses to guarantee rights under the Con-
stitution but makes fierce upon institution,
up0n the continuance and safety Of aohich our hap.
piness and prosperity essentially depend!
Nr. Rayner, it seems, offered to ignore the ques-
ton of slavery in Convention-that is, offered to
cast it aside, and ask protection for it at the
hands of the free States and he was ready to vote,
tappears and did rote, not only this, but that the
Know Nothing order was neither pro-slavery nor
a5Oltion and that with abolition delegates in at
tendance from thirteen or fourteen States, and
with Senator Wilson's bitter denunciations of slave
ry and the South still ringing in his cars He also,
is stated in the papers, pronounced the repeal OF
the Missouri line san outroge"!! Well, then,
would he not be bound, if in Congress, TO cote to
remedy this "outrage"? Does he, as Southern
man, acquiesce in this outrage" on the North
And Mr. Haughton. another delegate from this State
is reported in the New York Express to have said
in speech in New York on Monday night last, that
the abrogation of the Missouri line was received in
North Carolina " as gross, paEpabte UioLttion O
solemn pledge" He is also reported as saying thai
the South CHAD NO INTEREST IN EXTENDING SLAVE
RY," and that it "was folly to suppose that they
could ever make Kansas slave State" And Gov
Nei S. Brown, Wing, of Tennessee, is reported in
the New York Herald saying in his speech ir
Independence Square, Philadelphia, on the Saturday
evening preceding, that the majority platform tha
is, the Southern Platforms "not pro-slacery -
that is not for slavery and towards the close of hi
remarks he declared that he loved the Union NOR
than he did his own State! In the Convention, ant
out of it afterwards, in Philadelphia and New York
Southern delegates humbled themselves and begge'
for the Union putting in word now and then TO
the rights of their section, and offering, as in MI
Rayners case, to ignore those rights and still &C
with the free States; but from first to last they
treated as interiors, domineered over, denounced
and at last their Convention was disorganized an,
dissolved by their Northern allies, to whom the,
had thus humbled themselves and that too in rela
ton to the institution of slavery of such immens
value and Importance to the Southern people. An
now they ask us to continue the agitation agains
foreigners and Catholics for the benefit Of these sam
Northern men-for, Al we have shown the South i
IN no danger in this respect. Will the South d
this? Will Democrats do it. and be thus hqodwink
ed Inundated, disgraced? Never! The people G
North Carolina have long account to settle witt
Kenneth Rayner, John H. Haughton, and others
Inc day Of judgment" for them is not ia. distant