Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-07-04
KENNETH RAYNER DESPERATE.

Washington City, with reference to the President
and the members of his Cabinet:
'You have not the sacred right of secret voting.
The minions ofpower are watching you, to be turn.
ed out by the pimp of the White House, if you re-
fuse to sustain him. A man sunk low 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 a 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 Dobbn, acting
like "seven slaves" and ''whpt curs"! Did he sag
that? If he did, then say that no just or fair
minded man in North Carolina will endorse his Ian
guage; if he did, he has exhibited rage, malice, and
envy characteristic only of the desperate but baled
aud disappointed place-hunter; if he did, he has
given the lie to his professions here at home of
partyism, and has forced the Democratic press of
his own State to unite with that of other States in
at last exposing him in his true coors to the hon.
est masses Of ali parties, whose confidence he is seek
ing by a miserable, intolerant, ant-Constitutional
and anti Christian 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 was affecting so far he could do it, through
imputations upon the character of those officers;
for we say here, that if what he says of them be
true, this federal government ought at once to be
destroyed by the people He was speaking to and
infaming the passions of portion of those very
Know Nothings, who but short time since endeav-
orcd to obtain control of the Washington Monument
Association, so as 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 to have eye but
that of sworn member on any frauds it might be
considered necessary to commit-who iocked 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 Washing
ton, as we learn from the Washington Star, made
their way with transparencies and banners under
the windous Of the President yelling out their bru
tai blackguardism, and mingling shouts for "Sam"
with curses and denunciations of the Chief Magis
trate of the United States, whstling the "Rogue's
March" and the like in the immediate hearing of
his family! Mr.. Rayner, it seems, called the Presi-
dent ''pimp"-spoke 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 infammatory sentiments uttered by their
| orator.
| Mr. Rayner has pretended until recently, that
| Know Nothingsm no-party affair-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 as we did-having witnessed
for years his intoerant and overbearing conduct
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 mnions to point to one instance
in which the President has swerved from his duty,
| or from the landmarks of the Constitution on the
question of slavery. Point it out, Mr.. Rayner!
Let one of Mr.. Rayner's slaves escape to Boston !;
his ally in Know Nothngism, Mr.. Senator Wilson,
would not only harbor him, but he would put arms
in his hands, and mob would be raised to 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
non balls. Mr.. Rayner, behold your Chief Magis.
trate! He is unpopular, admit, in abolition
States-his friends there have gone down. clinging
to the Constitution under the pernicous flood Of
the very sms you now engaged in fomenting
but the fact that he is denounced and orsaken there
for his course on the question of slavery, plead:
trumpet ttongued with all true-hearted Southern
men to rally the more closely and the more warmly
to his standard. Mr.. Rayner hates President Pierc'
wherefore? Because he is a Democrat-that il
the secret.
Mr.. Rayner appears to be grieved because th
people of the District of Columbia do not posses
the sacred right of secret voting" All, Mr.. Ray
ner voters in Virginia and in the District of Coum
ba cannot rely upon the ballot system of voting a
an aid to the 'secret" and sneaking organization
the Know Nothngs Every man there must shov
his hand {; and it was that mainly which securet
the election of Wise Under monarchical forms
theoretically Constitutional but practically despotic
as in England the ''righ. of secret voting" may
an object with good men; but here, in this FIRE
country every sound reason is in favor of the uir
voce 'Men choose darkness rather light, becaus
their deeds are evil"
AN IMPORTANT MovEMENT-A movement of SOM
importance has just been commenced in North Car
olina and to be submitted to the Legislatl-
of that State 1t proposes first to render legal tn
institution of marriage among the slaves; second
to preserve sacred the relations between parents
their Young children: and third to repeal the law