Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-07-07

From the Pennsylvania, May "a.
Powerful Views and Facts, Damning to Know
nottingham.
ADDRESS OF TIE DEMOCRATIC WING COMMITTEE OF ST.
PERINTENDENCE.
The Wing committee of superintendent desire to
address to their felow-ctzens few words OF friend
ly and respectful counsel. Encouraged by the re-
suit of the late municipal election, showing as it did,
that the Mysteries power OF secret and therefore
irresponsible party, known as the Know Nothing
organization, had with all the aid of local patron-
age shown itself relatively weak, when arrayed
against honest and manly public opinon--its multi
tudinous majorities of leven ten, and fifteen thou
sand having, in less than year, collapsed to lSf on
one ticket and 422 on another-the committee wouio
have been content to be proudly silent But wnen
they see studious and elaborate attempt MADE 70
misrepresent this result they cannot refrain IN view
of the future, from trying to expose the fraud iney
now refer to a paper, very generally crcuInteu'
bearing the ambitious title Of sAdres Of the Erec-
4tire Committee Of the american Party to the Amer
Scaas t6aougAout the United States, and signed by
John w. Ashmead and six others, the OBJECT OF
which is to show that the escape which their secret
constituents had, at the late election, was not only
the greatest triumph achieved, but that it was
an especial triumph the wing party. They
undertake to assert that it victory over the
Wing and Democratic parties, or, to use their very
words painfully distinct in their effrontery, that
while in 1854 they co.operated, in 1853 the wings
as a party repud:ated all connexion with Their (the
committee's) principles and united with the Demo.
cratic party in an effort to prevent their success
It is to this singular assertion, so utterly ground
less that wish to direct the attention. especially
of Wing friends. We shall try to do this in words
that are precise Ineligible and we hope not Often
sive for we are perfectly aware that into the entan-
clements of this wretched organization have been
deceived many friends, both Wings and Democrats,
Sho now in bitter shame regret it. and WILL at the
first chance, escape from it. To them, and such as
Them for the wrecks are strewn all around US, we
do not desire to give any new pain, or deepen the
blush already upon their cheeks. But ofthe authors
or coneoctors of this executive address, genuine re-
representatives., they claim to be, OF their secret
ind uncandid party, and of their attempt to misead
the public, we shall speak freely and decisively
With one remark ola purely personal nature, we
might dismiss this address. 1t will hardly be cred
tied but it is simple truth, to which we defy contra
dicon that at least three ofthe sgners of this very
address, which asserts the adverse fusion OF the wings
and democrats parties, and their prostration-Vz:
George P Henzcy, Joseph L. Chester and George S.
Sharpen the day of the election carried placards
and eectioneered their ticket as the regular wing
ticket How can they now dare to say that the tick
ct thus eectoneered and thus victorious, was not
the whig ticket at all? This may be honor and
morality in the Know Nothing lodges but it seems
very like dishonor and equivocation out of them
To us it closely kindred to the system by
which men of high social position, of reputed per-
sonal integrity, and of religious profession, deny ad
heson to secret political organizations; and yet,
with the denial fresh their lips, attend lodges
and councils night after night, and make speeches
and deliver lectures on the texts offanaticsm which
there are current Such there among US well
known and well marked. This is one Illustration
of the conduct of this executive address.
But it is not worthy those represent to dispose
of this fraud by personal reference There is sad
der truth to be evolved-a revelation of the means
by which, before the election, the ruin and disgrace
of the wing party was planned. How far it will be
successful remains to be SEEM The of Mr..
Webster is cruelty introduced into their address
having foretod this result. If the querulous male
dictions of dying statesman, who had lived long
and active life of wing honor and profit, were suth-
cient to destroy the wing party, then may pause
to inquire how far the mschievous gossip, oozing
through the crevlces of a sick mans chamber, and
retailed by busy Observation-Disclosures throughout the
land is to be relied and if Mr.. Webster did pro-
nounce the whig doom, it came at least from lips
that spoke out and did not equivocate* So far back
1888 the Daniel Webster announced his
readiness to accept an anti-Masonc nomination.
Willard Fillmore anti-Masonic member of
Congress. The relatively innocent obligations of
charitable associations then deemed criminal
by those who, according to this address, bound by
secret political oaths, pronounce and rejoice at the
doom of the whig party. The wing party, in our
belief, a conservative element of open political
organization, still lives independent party
but if it be infected corrupted in some of its
members by the prevalent disease of pseudo Amer
leans, there is in it yet vitality enough unite with
honest allies against new and common enemy. The
fusion of honest the face of the world is the
confusion of secret intriguers For this end the
wing party here in full life. 1t to live and
be felt.
At the late election, we affirm that the whig or
ganization and machinery were on the side of the
SucceSSlubpaFty. Those VINO separated, did,
reluctantly, apd we hope, temporarily, from ancient
communlons, did so for reasons which all good men
must approve. Those motives will briefly state:
In the spring of 1854 the spasm of Know Moth
ingsm was at its height 1t was mysterious, and
therefore, captivating creation, that sprang into being
no one knew how, and worked sudden and great
result. Impressed by success and stimulated BY a
greed for local office, hundreds rushed the odg es
and, In their mysteries and mummeres, imagined
there were comfort and pleasure and success Night
after night high officials to be skulking or
parading, for it depended on temperament whether
they acted boldly or tmidly, to the places of meet
ing, and gratifying morbid appetite of one sort or
another by tord defamation on imaginary dangers,
or absurd ceremonialsism Offices were distributed
multiplied, and every variety of absurd nomencla-
tnre was adopted to excite curiosity and attract
cruts. The idle and unrefecting we're pleased with
diligently turning its organization to their own ad-
vantage. This was very manifest at the late Gov
errors election, when at the persuasion of secret
and irresponsible advisers the great issues of party
politics were abandoned, and a clear Wing victory
for such would James Polocks election certainly
have been, was turned into paltry Know Nothing
triumph, and a Democratic canal commissioner who
deceived all parties, elected over George Oar.
SIZE an honest experienced and able statesman SIM
ply because the breath of his early years was breath.
co among the free hills of Presbyterian Scotland
the land OF Mercer, who bled at Princeton and
WlthersPoen, who signed the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. Such were the two Know Nothing vic.
tories SO much Wanted. But the bitter end was not
yet.
Fart OF this victory was overwhelming major