Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-06-30
KENNErH RAYEra DESPERATE.

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"You have not the sacred right of secret voting
The mnions Of power are watching you, to be turn
| ed out by the pimp of the White House, if you
! fuse to sustain him. man sunk low we can
! hardly hate. We have nothing but disgust, pity,
ard contempt. His seven walters look and act like
! whipt ours. They seven slaves who wait upon
his bidding, and who gloat over any poor man they
can throw out of employment for being independent
and acting like freeman"
Can it be possible that Kenneth Rayner used that
language? The President of the United States a
"pimp''- man sunk so low" as to deserve moth
ing but "disgust, pity and contempt"-and his Cab
met officers including Mr.. Secretary Dobbin, acting
like "seven slaves" and "whipt curs"! Did he sag
that? If he did, then say that no just or fair
min led man in North Carolina will endorse his lam
guage; if he did, he has exhibited rage, malice and
envy characteristic only of the desperate but baed
aud disappointed place-hunter if he did, he has
given the lie to his professions here at home of no
partyisn, and has forced the Democratic press of
his State to unite with that of other States in
at last exposing him in his true colors to the hon.
est Of all parties whose confidence he is seek
ing by miserable, intoerant, anti-Consttutional
and antl-Christan crusade against foreigners and
Catholics. Mr.. Rayner was speaking, be it remem-
bered, in the federal capital, within sound almost OF
the great officers of the Republic, whose good name
he affecting so far as he could do it, through
imputatons upon the character of those officers !;
for say here, that if what he says Of them be
true, this federal government ought at once to be
destroyed by the people He speaking to and
infaming the passions of portion of those very
Know Nothings, who but short time since endeav-
ored to obtain control of the Washington Monument
Association, to advance in connection with
that sacred object their own selfish purposes-who
but recently, as the City government of Washing
ton appointed Know Nothing inspectors of elections
only, and no Democrats, so as to have no eye but
that of sworn member on any frauds it might be
considered necessary to commit-who focked about
Henry A. WISE when he attempted to speak at
Browns Hotel, and by Kisses and insulting express
sions prevented him from being heard and who,
the very night that Mr.. Rayner spoke at Washing
ton, as learn from the Washington Star, made
their way with transparencies and banners under
tile aoindoags Of the President yelling out their bru-
tai blackguardism, and minging shouts for Sam"
with curses and denunciations of the Chief Mags-
trate of the United States, whistling the "Rogues
March" and the like in the immediate hearing of
his family! Mr. Rayner it seems, called the Presi-
dent ''pimp"-spokc cf him deserving only of
'disgust pity and contempt; and the crowd he
had thus harangued, went to the White House to
act out the nfiammatory sentiment uttered by their
orator.
Mr.. Rayner has pretended until recently, that
Know Nothingsm was no-party atfair-that it
was neither Wing nor Democratic; and that he had
gotten rid Of much if not all his former party feel
ing. Knowing him we did-having witnessed
for years his intoerant and oVerbearing conduct as
party man, we placed little confidence IN these
professions; and now the curtain has been raised,
and he stands out as virulent and violent de-
nouncer of Democratic President and Democratic
Cabinet as any federalist in the land. by their
fruits We shall know them" Mr.. Rayner hates
President Pierce-wherefore Has he not proved
true to the Constitutional rights of North Carolina?
We defy him and his minions to point to one instance
in which the President has sweryed from his duty.
or from the landmarks Of the Constitution or 'he
question Of slavery. Point it out, Mr.. Rayner
Let of Mr.. Rayner's slaves escape to Boston
his ally in Know Nothingism, Mr.. Senator Wilson,
would not only harbor him, but we would put arms
in his hands, and mob would be raised 70 defend
him but President Pierce would restore that slave
to Mr. Rayner-would vindicate the majesty OF the
laws over the heads of that mob, and would do it,
if the occasion required it, with cold steel and can
balls. MIR. Rayner, behold your Chief Magis-
trate! He is unpopular, we admit, in abolition
States-his friends there have gone down, clinging
to the Constitution, under the perncious flood Of
the very lSmS you are now enSaSeu Ill
but the fact that he is denounced and forsaken there
for his course the question Of slavery, pleads
trumpet-tongued with all true-hearted Southern
men to rally the more closely and the more warmly
TO his standard. Mr. Rayner hates President Pierce
-wherefore9 Because he is a Denocrat-that is
the secret.
MIR. Rayner appears to be grieved because the
people of the District of Columbia do not possess
the sacred right of secret voting" All, Mr.. Ray
ner voters in Virginia and in the District of Column
ba cannot rely upon the ballot system of voting
an aid to the Secret and sneaking organization of
the Know Nothngs Every man there must show
his hand and it that mainly which secured
the election of Wise. Under monarchical forms
theoretically Constitutional but practically despotic,
as in England, the 'right of secret voting" may be
an object with good men; but here, in this free
country, every sound reason is in favor of the Ui0a
Uoce. men choose darkness rather light because
their deeds are evil"
The largest meeting convened in Easton, (Pa.)
was held the other evening. series of resolutions
were adopted endorsing the platform Of the Phila-
delphia Convention, and acknowledging it as poll
tcal creed that will stand the of time. Meet