Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-12-15
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.sAMn SAVING THE COUNTRY

Know Nothing I" Sam y" SAM" fresh from the
reople, with no thirst for Office, and with no wish
Int for the public veal" Sam, so eulogized by
Mr. Rayner in his place in the Senate and almost
orerv where on the stump" SAM with an oath
IN his lips to be true to the Union, and to frown
down the abolitionists-" Sam, with the stars and
stripes floating over his head an emblem Of his
intense American nationality -" Sam" the I'M
selfsh the patriotic the Union-saceq-where is he
Bv combining all the elements of disaffection in the
democratic party, North and South and by the aid
Of the abolitionsts of the free States "Sam" car
ried the House of Representatives by large major
ity and the time for organizing that body having
arrived he presented his candidate for Speaker
The vote was taken, and out of one hundred and fifty
of this opposition to the Democracy, thus gotten up
and arrayed under " Sans" influence, but tsoenty-
fre or thirty members showed themselves to be ma
tioua men-and all of these but three were from
the South. After balloting for many days, "Sam {"
urged his friends to unite on Mr.. Banks, Massa-
cbusetts aboltionist. One hundred and seven of
them hearkened to &c Sam and did so yet so steep
Ell in aboli:ionsn, hostile to the Constitutional
rights Of the South is this Mr.. Banks, that not
one of Sans" Southern friends has ventured to
vote for him. Willing, however, to oblige "Sam, ~
lettering legs, the most of these Southern friends,
including Messrs. Puryear and Paine, of this State,
have gone as far North as they could by voting for
Nr Fuller an anti Nebraskaite and the warm friend
of Gov johnson, the Pennsylvania abo!itionst; but
B4aks is the man after " Sans " own heart and he
looks darky with his Northern face on these South
ern friends for not going the full hgurefor desert
ing him in this time Of need
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unorganized for two weeks with Know Nothing
and opposition majority of over sixty-a majority
pointed to and exulted over time and again. even by
Southern Know Nothings The Democrats have
done all they could under the circumstances, to
canize They have not only announced their prin-
ciples in a Resolution which must command the APP
prova of all good men in all portions of the
try, but they have presented for the Speakership
gentleman every way fitted for the place, and who
is true as steel to the Constitution to the Union,
and to the rights of the South. They cannot fuse
then cannot go to the opposition-rhe respon-
sibility for this state Of things is not upon them
Though in a minority, they are in the right; and we
trust they will stand where they are.
Just look Know Nothings of the South, and
how your favorite Sam" is protecting your sec
ton and saving the country. We hear nothing now,
in Washington, about bloody Popes" and 'igno-
rant foreigners that used by "Sam" to de-
ccve the masses and to carry the elections but
"Sam's" cry now is, in the federal Cty-doacn oih
the rights of the South IN the common Territories
no more Stare Stdtes-'.o Pro-stnuery Gdntns-
trttions, like the present-repeal Of the tugitire-
sLzee a,o-slacsry is SECTIONAL and freedom nation
al, Who so deluded and sunk now, in North-Car-
Dina, as to shout g hurrah for SAM"