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

f KNEES MOUNTAIN CELEBRATIoN.-The people of
York District S. c., recently assembled to take into
consideration the project Of celebration of the next
anniversary of the battle of Kings Mountain Hon.
!. D. Witherspoon called to the chair, and S.
W. Melton appointed Secretary On motion by Col.
W. B. Wilson, series of resolutions were reported
and adopted. These recommend the celebration of
the anniversary of the battle of Kings Mountain, on
Thursday, the fourth day of October next; solicit
the cooperation of all the Districts in South Caro-
lima in etfecting this end and that the District of
Chester, Union, Spartanburg, and Lancaster, in S.
c., and the adjoining counties in North Carolina be
requested to appoint committees to act in cert
with the Committee of Arrangements invite cordi-
ally, the people of the State of Virginia, n. Carolina,
Tennessee, and Kentucky, and especially the de-
scendans of those who took part in the battle to be
present. and that Committee on the part of S. c.
be appointed solicit the cooperation of the peo
pie Of these States in the proposed celebration pro-
vide for .ting the President of the United States
and his Cabinet, Lieut.. Gen. Scott, and the Govern
ors of Virginia, North Carolina Tennessee ard Ken
lucky to be present. designate the Hon. John S.
Preston, of S. c., and the Hon. Geo. E. Badger, of
n. c., the orators of the day; request Governor
Adams of S. G., to act as Marshal OF the day; and
provide for the appointment of subcommittee TO
carry out the objects proposed.
As former occasion, do we again renew
the i>h that the celebration may more than equal
the expectations of those who have patrotcay
conceived it. And inasmuch as North Carolina
ably represented by her in the deadly struggle
Of King : Mountain--an event certainly
estimated in its effects upon the war, by histo-
ranswc trust that of the descendants OF those
brave men may represent her on the occasion OF
this peaceful celebration. va He1at0.-
PRosCRIPTIvE ORG ANIzATIos The thirteen States
which seeded from the Philadelphia convention of
know nothnes and set up political creed of their
own, included in it the doctrine of hostility Ro-
Catholics, and exclusion of all foreigners from
Certain Offices. The know something's who have
Just adjourned in Ohio left out the doctrine of poll
teal discrimination against foreigners but proclaimed
the anti-Popery clause. The regularly organized
know-nothings who carried the convention in Phila-
delphia rcattirmed also the Catholic test though it
off from them large class in of the slave
holding States, (Maryand and Louisiana,) whom
some of the leaders wished to for the uses of
the order.
These political organizations had their origin in
the Irish lodges of Orangemen, which were trans
planted here, and in the provinces of Canada, some
years ago. The antiPopery feature is the indca-
ton OF the common parentage of this diverse
brood. They are therefore, forei gn" in origin,
they alien in feeling and purpose to the true
publican sentiment of America. But they have
ceased to be dangerous. The very facility with
which they are formed and multiplied is fatal to their
perpetuity. Everywhere throug hout these orders
there is division. In vain they seek unity in this
State by expelling $4,000 subordna:es who voted
last fall against the decree of the order. 1t
easy to create a order as ii to call the old
one into being. We shall soon, then, have a swarm
of these secret organizations with the absurd titu-
lar hierarchy Of Mighty Serene Inexpressiby Grand,
Mighty Grand, Past Grand, Very High Scribe, &c,
&c, which seems to form the attraction of the order.
But the very prolific nature of these creations
analogy in these matters holds good that the lowest
forms of life, the insects, the ephemera have this
facility of reproduction, and that breath nuInakcS
them as a breath has made"
The worm that suffers mincng into parts
May SprOut forth heads and tails but hearts,
A(6dHG At(uS.