Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-01-13
THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

| the grounds attached to it, accompanied by bill
appropriang five thousand dollars for additions and
repairs, and thousand dollars for furniture. Mr.
Wilder made detailed statement of the condition
of the Executive Mansion and the out-houses and
grounds, which struck many with surprise The in
terror of the building decayed in many places, and
the kitchen, stables fences pangs are so decay
ed as to be almost entirely unfit to be occupied or
used. Five thousand dollars it thought, would
erect two wing rooms for the more comfortable
cornmodaton of the Governor and his family-repair
root, construct pangs &c; but after debate, the
Resolution, on motion of Mr.. Wilder, was recommit-
ted to the Committee with instructions to bring in
a bill for erecting Government House. Mr..
Graham, Mr.. Cherry, and others, who took part in
the debate, signfed willingness to vote any
sonable amount that might be required to construct
a building, if the Legislature should think pro-
per to do so; and Mr. Wilder, though he had repor-
ted the Resolution referred to as the organ of the
Committee, was nevertheless of opinion that true
economy would be consulted by the erection of
new building We concur in this view of the mat
ter. The present building always uncomfortable
especially in the winter season, is defective and 60
ing to decay and the money expended in -eparing
it during the ten fifteen years, would go far
towards erectinga new one If should be decided
to erect new house. and on Nash Square, the pres
ent one could be repaired at small expense compar-
atively, so as to render the Governor comfortable
and after the completion of the building the old
one and grounds could be disposed of by the State
for at least half the amount which would be requir-
ed to erect the new one. Besides, the Governor it
seems to us, should have office in his mansion,
near it, as we'll at the Capitol; for we know, from
observation that it is exceedingly inconvenient for
that officer owing to the number of persons who
visit him at the Capitol to attend as Constantly as
he could wish to do to the business of his office.
~ We have been SO crowded of late with Leg
isative proceedings and speeches, that could
command the space we wished for other matters Of
interest to our readers. We have desired especially
to pay respects to the secret order of Know
Nothinss; but we hope to have space for this
subject as we'll for others deeply afec ting
the public mind
Once for ALL however, we take leave to express the
opinion that the so-called Know Nothing or Ameri-
can party is of the dcadcst foes which Demo-
cracy ever had to encounter We believe it to be,
aso organization dangerous to the peculiar inst-
tutions of the Southern States Its greatest trumphs
achieved, for instance in Massachusetts, the hot
bed of aboiitionsm; indeed it is stated in the pa
pers, that in the Massachusetts Legislature which is
entirely know-Nothns, the infamous Theodore Par
kerr the abolitionist and blasphemer, received
hundred and twenty votes for Chaplain! This is
significant fact We again most earnestly warn our
Democratic friends against this order "Touch
not, taste not, handle not the uncean thing" A
late number of the Washington Union contains the/
following: {
But the difficulty with the know nothings is not
that they select natives and Protestants to office and
A. fla Cok
zen from the privileges of competition, but that they
require nothing in their candidate except American
birth places and religious hate Intellect, knowl-
edge honesty, experience, sound principles of gov
ernment-these nothing in the new order, by the
side of those two elements upon which the order is
founded. Hence it is not strange that they have
removed good and capable from office, and sub
stituted bad and incapable men in their places The
same process must continue as long the same in
fucnceS last. The hauntS of secrecy not the
natural resorts of virtue and greatness they the
fit skulking places of rascalty and corruption. An
officc-seeker who is deficient, either in brains or
character, had better always pursue his object by
stealthy means Under the broad light of public
discussion he would be likely to get into the
penitentiary than to get into office
We marvel how any one who possesses the COM
mon spirit of a degrade himself by an aSso-
citation with this secret order of the know nothngs
We hear of such person without nstinctively
feeling for him mingled emotion of pity and con.
tempt. There is mcanness, littleless coward
ice about the society, which cannot fail to sink it
INTO the lowest depths of popular disgrace. Not
even the monstrous bgotry and intolerance upon
which it is founded elevate it into dignity.
Some worthy have been delutled into its ranks
but they will not remain there. Some corrupt politi
clans have seized upon it as ladder to place; but
their ladder will break down before many of them
have begun to climb it; and when the break comes,
they who fall will get plenty of bruises but sym
pathy. They will fall, like Lucifer, never to rise
again
Those who are disposed to attribute frcesoil and
abolition procvities to the american Party"
would do we'll to read the communication in
present ISSUE signed anti-fogyism," in which that
charge is scattered to the winds, and the party
proved to be highly conservative and patriotic.
Raleigh Star.
The question is can any party b "proved to be
highly conservative ard patriotic" which holds SUI
preme sway, the American Know-Nothing
party does in the abolition State of Massachusetts,
What will the Star-what will Mr.. Rayneri say
to the following, which we copy from the Rich
mond Enquirer? We do not know whether such
a Resolution passed not by the Hartford
Convention, but give the article we find it in
the Enquirer Will some friend, who may happen
to remember know something of the doings in
detail of that Convention give US the factsG That
Convention, it is well known, was actuated by an
intense hatred to so-caed foreigners" as well as
to African slavery and if its counses could have
prevailed, the eagle of American liberty would have