Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-06-30
MR.. RAYNER AND HIS NORTHERN ALLIES.

MR.. RAYNER AND HIS NORTHERN ALLIES.
The last Raleigh Register contains what purports
to be the substance of the speech delivered 10y Mr..
Rayner few evenings since in Washington City
and finding the report in the Register, taken from
Washington paper, we consider it as au-
thentic such reports usually are, and regard
Mr.. Rayner as bound by it to the people of North
Carolina Among other things Mr.. Rayner said:
"Coming as | do from our labors at Philadelphia,
it is right that should aude to the transaction of
the late National Council The enemy had circu-
lated throughout the land the story that division
and distraction had entered into the American fain-
ly at Philadelphia. can sag aDith pride and joy
that this IS not the case There division on
the great American principles-the distinguished
features o. the order.
On that distracting question which has entered
into and divided all political parties, and many
churches of the land, there difference of opn
ion. We did not attempt to patch up theory that
should read two ways and be fitted to each section
but looking 10 one common cause, to the protection
Of American Professionalism, united
man. On slavery alone there difference. The
members from the North aoho disapproUed protest.
e1 honestly and nauntuLiy, but did not secede And
now instead of coming into the field with regi-
ment, at the next election, shall present tac0 i'm
menSe brigades that aoiU sueep eOe,vthing ie3re
lCheers. Let not the powers here in Washington
and the pimps of the Roman hierarchy cackle
our division of sentiment this question. There
is no hope for them in it. On the great question of
opposition to their entertainments there is no divs
ion-no North, South All the North
camp fires are lighted on every hilltop So also do
they send back their greeting from the sunny
South"
Here it is boldly asserted that, notwithstanding
the difference of opinion on slavery between South
ern and Northern Know Nothings, they still
united as party; that the members from the North
''protested honestLy and n0nfuIy" against the ma
jority platform, "6ut dill not secede" and that the
calculation, by Southern and STAKEHOLDER,
is that in the campaign of 1856 the ABOLITION forces,
under the lead of Ford, Wilson, Colby and Gardner,
will form one of the " immense brgades " destined
in 4Dt1iati0n Uih Southerm H1aow ,Yothings, to
sweep the country. There it is fellow-citizens in
terms so plain that he who may read.
Mr.. Rayner decares-as does also the "Ameri-
can Organ that the Know Nothing party is still
NATIONAL still unit-that the twelve abolition States
did not secede" but only protested against the
platform adopted. Let us, then, they insist upon
this state of things take it fer granted and look to
results. Massachusetts, under Know Nothing influ-
ence has nulied the fugitive-slave law, and set the
authorities of the federal government at defiance;
Mr. Wilson and Mr.. Sumner, her two Senator's, stand
pledged to labor for the repeal of that law and to
abolish slavery in the District of Columbia and in the
Territories in several of the Northern States Know
mourning nave Deen eleCI6Q VINO are as nos
tile Mr.. Wilson is the rights of the South and,
taking all the free States together, in the late cleo
tons some fifty or sixty Know Nothing members of
the House have been returned, who will assurcdly
vote with Wilson and Seward of the Senate for the
most ultra freesoil propositions in Maine, in New
York, and indeed throughout the free States Res
outions have been adopted, either by Know Moth
ing Legislatures State Councils the tendencies of
which are if carried out, to destroy the institution of
slavery force dissolution of the Union and in
New Hampshire the old Democratic party, standing
upon the Baltimore platform and advocating the Ne
braska Kansas measure, have been defeated, and as
the result of it, John P. Hale, vile abotonist has
been elected to the United States Senate, and man
elected Governor Mr.. Metcalf-who in his inaugu
raj address denounces the repeal of the Missouri
line outrage not to be submitted to by the
North and, among other things, insults the whole
Southern people by the charge that they con-
the revival of the African slave-trade
In instance has national man been elected to
office By tile hnoa0 Nothings Of the FREQ States. The
Oroer, in that region, is compound of all sms, the
leading features of which hatred of the South, !
and determination, constantly expressed to extir
pate slavery by abolishing it in the District of CO.
lumba, by abolislng it in the Territories SO as to
prevent its spread and by repeating the fugitive
SlaNe law, tHuS ueiylnS 10 southern masters the |
right of capture and reclamation soemnly guaran- |
eed in the federal Constitution This in brief is |
The condition and these the principles and objects
Of the great body of Northern Know Nothings; and |
Mr. Raynes not only admits, but declares +" with |
pride and joy that they his aes-that he is
acting with them against the Administration and |
against Democracy-that he counts upon them as
one of his immense brgades " in the contest of |
1856! 1t is also stated in the papers that Mr. Rayn-
er declared in the Convention at Philadelphia, that
The repeal of law of Congress putting the South
ern people under the ban of inferiority TO say the
east oft. North of certain line "aOas outrage"
md that his right should have withered and his
ongue been palsied before he would have voted for
t! All this is in entire consistency with his offer
n the Convention to ignore the question of
'avery-to act with Wilson and his confcderates
Without any pledge guarantee for the rights of
lis section.
But, Mr. Rayner may reply, someone of his
ew friends may reply for him, that there abo-
itionists in the last Democratic National Convention
md that there abolitionists in the Democratic
party in the free States. No such position can be
made good. There was. one abolitionst-Mr Ran
toul-in the last Democratic National Convention,
put he was summary expelled the delegates from
MS own State voting to expel him and the Resolu-
ion in the platform approving the fugitive-slaye