Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-09-26

like some beautiful pyretechnie display, iumina-
fling with feeting br{hiancy the starry canopy, and
then leayinga darker aldsfAore pervadIng gloom
behind. lit was Pandora's Box with many evils ac-
gcompanying it, and only one hope to escape them,
and that HOPE the united Democracy. 1t was SER
pent coiling himself round the American Eagle as
he defied the sun-baze in his majestic fight, and
striving to fasten his deadly fangs deep into the
heart of that noble bird 1t is the child of bgotry
and prescription, basely begotten amid the loath-
some corruption of polluted cities, covered with the
scrofula or its diseased parents, and writing its vic
tories in fire and blood, the Cincinnati and Lou
isville riots will tell to poserty its gnoble mission
This wretched organization, stimulating and lnha-
ming the worst passions of the human heart, alIena-
ting the affections of the people, destroying social
confidence, and spreading spirit OF sceptlcsm ana
infdelity on the decay Of genuine Christianity, is
pregnant with great consequences to the nation
It requires no political asrooger necromancer to
foretel it's direfu effects should it succeed in obtain
ing the reins of government. go -. .....t
In despotic countries where the divine rights of
kings is Observation-Disclosures monarch can as
sert like Louis XIV, he is the State, secret political
societies may be justihabe; but in land proudly
boastng of it's freedom, where liberty OF speech and
an untrammeled press are allowed the widest sway,
no satisfactory plausible excuse can be rendered
for their existence. They are incompatible with
the spirit of our institutions. They unerrngly IN
dictate state of degeneracy and political depravity,
which all must deprecate, and which If PATRIOTISM
still burns in our heart of hearts, must be remeded
or the stream of liberty will soon, be diverted from
its channels, only TO now IN tue ueau sea Vi
despotism whose black and heavy waters will
spread over the ruins of an engulphed Repubc.-
This Know Nothing organization has been correctly
styled by Mr.. Stephens ineperauzs an Snspers0 or
q government within q, government Such 1t IN
doubtedly is, for its members bound by the most
stringent oaths to obey in opposition to their
will and preferences, the edict of their Council
Nothing can be more inimical to repubcansm than
the sefstyled American party, whose prototype can
be found in the Jacobn Clubs of the Fren,h Revo-
luton when those dauntless and bloodthirsty sPr-
its, Danton, Robespierre, and Marat, wrote chap
ter in the history of France in characters OF blood
To bind free with oaths administered by
time-servng political demagogues for unconstitu-
tional purposes, must if respecte by their truck
ling slaves of deluson and chicanery, end in the
downfall of liberty If this government is to be
controlled by midnight irresponsible concaVes, its
freedom will be but mockery and a reproach,
scarcely better than that enjoyed by the subjects OF
the Autocrat
For want of time, must resume this subject in
the next issue of your valuable paper, by calmnly
investigating the principles of the Know Nothing
organization, and showing the danger which they
will inevitably bring upon u.s. in event of their sue
and that at this particular juncture of affairs,
the Democracy alone give quiet and repose to
the country. 1 only point out its destiny after
exposing the detestation of patriots the unsafe
doctrines it must counterfeit. Its sublime mission
inspires me with renewed ardor, and makes the self
imposed task have allotted to myself emphaticaly
q labor of love-" W. V. G.
Beaufort n. c.. Sept 19, 1856.
Ito be concluded IN oar nert9