Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-03-21

be allowed the expresson) to the tender Of his
professed friends Of another lodge, who would take
gentleman from Alabama, cultiyate his frlendsnip,
probe his designs and communicate his secret
Sir this indicated degree of proficiency in jesuit
ism that would have gladdened the heart and raised
a CHASTITY smile even on the countenance OF Rodln
The gentleman from Alabama justiAes the oaths
of this ORDER and says that II finds its Justification
in the practices of its adyersarics Is not that sound
doctrine 10 hold forth in an American Congress
Finds its justification In the practices Of its adverse
RES The religious jesuts arc the adversaries ne
speaks of -
The gentleman also says ian oath solemny taken
is an element Of purity" Well, SIR ifa solemn oath
was what they sought for this order should not have
stopped at the oath of the Jcsuits, but gone lew
centuries further back and adopted the oath which
Catalina administered to his co-conspiiitors, when
they met in the back of the house of Scmphro-
MIA a Roman bawd,-in place, as the historian
saws every way suited for the purpose, and well
adapted to their occult aud dark PRACTICES LOT
after administering mighty OATH just as the Know
Nothings administer it, they scaled the oath by drink
ing from the bowls draughts of wine mingled with
human blood Was that the element OF purity?
Did that oath make them pure? Why, Sir, II the
history Of those times be correct they were men OF
desperate fortunes and abandoned characters-1nen
dangling loose upon society," who were ready Tor any
change of affairs that promised to benefit themselves
Then. Sir, the gentleman says that secrecy IS the
great element of success and that the order should
preserve in their halls the most nviolabe secrecy,
all the time acting uponthe old doctrine that the
end will justify the means. Now Sir ii this IS not
JesuitiSm, do not understand what is the meaning
of the term But, the gentleman says that it finds
its great justification of secrecy in the fact that 1t Is
warning against Jesuits! If the religious Jesuts are
what the gentleman represents them to be, and II
these political Jesuits of Know Nothingsm what
l believe them to be, | Sir, should look upon con-
test between them with perfect indifference. would
look upon it as American citizens now generally look
upon the war going en- between Russia and England,
cfnrr1 hrn lpnk f1Crht hP
tween bear and an alligator a mink and pole
cat Much laughterl Every objection that the
gentleman has urged against tho Jesuits seem to APP
ply with equal force to the Know Nothings. They
are neither of them suited to our country and they
cannot flourish here. One is the counterpart OF the
other, and Sir my friend from the Red River dis
rict of Louisiana (Mr. Roland jones' says that the
men from my State are fond of making quotations
from Hudibras, let me say to the gentleman from
Alabama, of the Know Nothings and Jcsults, that
That they near akin,
And like all as well Sin,
That put them in bag and shake 'em,
Himself The sudden would mistake 'em,
And not know which was which, unless
He measured by their wIckedness. Laughter
Who set on foot the organization in the United
States We find it springing up in the North in
the hot bed of federalism 1t had been conquered
under every name by the Democratic party. 1t was
the old federal party, and was conquered under
that 1t assumed the name of National Re
publican, then Wing, then degenerated into sms.
The Wing party had become almost extinct at the
North There was in fact but party there and
that was the Democratic party All the others were
but isIns.
Mr.. WASuBuRNE, of Illinois. Will the gentleman
tell me in which State at the North the Democratic
party exist?
Mr.. RrrFIx. 1 think it does in Illinois, judging
from the late election there Laughter
Mr.. WAsHBURNE. suppose the gentleman refers
to the election ofan anti-Ncbraska Senator Renew-
ed Laughter.
Mr.. KUFFIN. No sir, do not, but will come to
his election by and by.
Ef I u- ia tho inf
exists in Pennsylvania, thank God lit banner
torn but flying. [Great laughter
Mr.. WAsnBuRNE In what part OF Pennsylvania!
Mr.. FLORENCE. In the First Congressional Dis
trict. Renewed laughter. That will do. Now let
the gentleman from n q. go on.
Mr. RUFFIN. The Democratic party being trum-
plant at the North, there fusion Of all the
isns to oppose it. This organization sprang up. 1t
offered great inducements. There host of old
political hacks out of office, who had lived all
their lives out of the public crib. They had then |
nothing to resort to. The democratic party was in
power in the general government, and at the time in
most of the States, and these old political hacks,
who were wandering about like stray spirits the
Stygan banks, thought it fine chance to join in the
new venture, and they joined this organization. |
Sir that it taken from the old federal party.
That party has been eradicated at the North.
1t Is true, the old tree of federalism is dead, its
leaves have long since withcred and been waited /
away upon the winds of Heaven, its boughs have |
crumbled and fallen and its aged trunk lying pros
trate has mouldercd into dust but from its prolific |
roots has sprung up this bastard slip of Know Moth
ing SIN. 1t has incorporated into its platform planhs
from that old party. |
Mr.. CAMPBELL. Amen Laughter.
Mr.. RUFF1N. Anti-naturallzation Where is that !
take from 1t is plank of the black cockade fed
eralism of the days of the elder Adams and the
der finds bright example of secrecy in the blue
light federasts who met i'll the Hartford Convention
to plot treason against the Government.
1t has tiourshed i'll that section of country fruit
u in IsIns, in abolitionism, freesolism, atheism
mems rghtism and every other ism imaginable. |
These, Sir, have ven them their strength there, in
that section of our country where men meet togeth
er in convention and declare "there is no God ;"
where agraran mobs, the very scum of the earth, |
parade the streets by thousands recognizing dis
tnction between meum and tuu,n, and crying aloud
Tor division of property. In that section of coun-
try where wcakrnnded men, crazy fanatics, meet in
with strong. minded women clothed in |
boots and breeches, to discuss the important ques
ton of women's rights. Laughter.
lnaugurated under these auspices, how can it be |
conservative? SIR the idea is preposterous 1t pro-
esscs to be the only true National Conservative
Union party-whereas it is sectional radical des-
ructive party. It is abolition, dsunion scheme,
and in every step in its progress gives unerrng in
dicaton of settled purpose to sever asunder the
lies which bind these States together.
1t has given strength to the abolitionists of the
North, and now it has the unblushing erontery and
1aring impudeuce to offer itself to the South
hing which is conservative, something which is de-
signed to place in their hands and the hands of their
friends the power of the General and State Govern
ncnts. Sir, for one; never had any confidence in
t from the beginning, for it came from the wrong