Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-11-28

over all who are not members of the same-incom-
patible with republican form of government and
tending in its consequences to produce anarchy,
6loodshed, and ciOaE acGr. As phslGnthTopist 4
could not remain member of the Order because
their constitution and laws Of organization sever the
dearest ties of ilial and fraternal affection; break
asunders the bonds OF friendship between man and
man, and thus disturb and destroy the peace and
harmony of society Because our country has OBJ
tanned a Meme, hitherto amazon by any of the ma
tons of the earth-7he asylum Of the oppressed
Can a nation, thus distinguished, drive with iron
hand, the prosecuted stranger from her shores? or
send back the helpless hopeless exile to his letters
and his chains?
l could not remain member of the Order; be-
cause in raising the hand of persecution against
Catholics and foreigners, in the United States, we
invite the rulers and people of other lands and chimes
to retalate upon countrymen and Christian broth
ers abroad and thus erect a barrier against inter-
national intercourse, which tends SO much to har-
moniZe the world.
might recur7 to other points of justification for
the course pursued in dissolving all connection
with the Know Nothngs--now miscaed the Amer
lean party but forbear, lest should trespass up
on your Kindness and the patience of the public.
Lwoud, in conclusion, ask those political PhdrS-
Sees called K1aoW Nothings, who were originally the
American party? Was the name confined to the
native protestants of our land? Did they alone
battle for the liberty enjoy? History answers,
NO. Protestants and Baptists, Quakers and Catho-
lies, 1nfdels and Foreigners, Unitarians and Uni.
versaliss were alike engaged in the great cause of
human rights. Britons and Franks Germans and
Poles, shared equally in the tolls and suferings of
those perilous times with the native born citizens of
the land We find Montgomery and Lincoln, Ham,
Elton and Jones' La Fayette and De Grasse, De Kalb
and Pulaski, with Washington and Greene, Morgan
and Nash and host of daring and dauntless patri-
OTIS of different countries, States and Kingdoms,
fighting side by side, in the of American free
DOM Shall these be stricken from the roll of the
American party? Shall the names of Chatham and
Barre Conway and Paine, and others, master spirits
of their age in other countries, who dared, in the
face of royalty to advocate the cause OF civil and
religious liberty be also severed from the American
party? Shall the great Democratic Family of the
United States, with long and eminent list of Fed
guarded and defended the Constitution of our
try for sxty-six years. from the parrcidai hands of
fanatics and factions; who have, in fiytwo years,
trebled the geographical of the United States,
not by conquest ambitious warfare, but by treaties
of purchase indemnity; who have caused the
star spangled banner (Which iutters in the breeze,
over the dark blue waters of the deep in every cme
to be respected for the vaor of its defenders and
feared for the justice of the people it protects-sha
these too be stricken from the roll of the American
party? and that by secret, turbulent, and disor-
ganizng faction, who, in the language of their own
nomenclature, Know Nothing? Christianity, Pa
trotism and Philanthropy, forbid it. The great Gre
ator and Preserver of the Universe, He whose wis
dom guided the councils of Washington and his com
patriots in 1887 when they selected cirI and relig
the structures of human power, the firmest sup
ports of the temple of American freedom, will not
suffer those bright and beautiful monuments of
Truth and Justice to be broken into fragments by
impious hands
HUGH NJ. STOKES,