Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-06-20


Nothing. The District is largely Whig. Mr.. Kerr
was the representative in the last Congress He |
voted for the Nebraska-Kansas bil-that is, to open
the common territories of the Union to the slave
holders of the South and he is opposed to bgotry,
intolerance, and to secret political organizations.
He is exposing the abolition influences by which the
Know Nothing organization is controlled in the free
States, and warning his friends and constituents to
resist the spread of the dark lanterns in their midst
He has been distinguished for years an active
Wing leader and the candidate of his party for
Governor in 1862. In that campaign, as we'll pre-
yiously, he avowed himself an ultra Union man !;
and was quite severe in his illusions to those who
hold States rights doctrines He went to Wash
ingon, and observed for himself the rapid strides
which abolitionsm making. He witnessed and
felt man the nsolence and injustice which char
acterize the vile horde of freesoilers and abolition
ists and he at length spoke out for his section and
his constituents in tones of thunder, rebuking
assailants, and declaring that there could be no
Union without the Constitution. He perceived for
himself that Know Nothingism, or fusion, or new
organizations in the free States but other
for abotonism and that under this garb the ene-
mics of the South were advancing with sure and
steady steps to the consummation of their fell de-
signs. He returned home, and we have stated,
raised his voice of warning; and though the Know
Nothings, nine-tenths of whom are Wings, profess
to deprecate the existence of party and to ncucae
spirit of independence in public men, yet he is to
be stricken down by these men, notwithstand-
ing his repeated declarations that he is good
Wing as he was, and because he has dared, ON
questiuus above and beyond party, to think for HIM
No took hnf0ra
commenced, to commend both Mr.. Kerr and Mr.
Badger for their manly and patriotic course on the
Nebraska-Kansas question and we have nothing to
add or to withdraw in this respect. The Editors of
this journal have had no personal intercourse or
correspondence with Mr. Kerr for years-their per,
sonal feelings cannot be supposed to be enlisted in
his favor; and the Inference therefore, is that they
are prepared calmly to do justice to him as a public
man, and to his opponent Mr.. Reade. The princi-
pal Editor we'll remembers that IN 1910, Mr.. Kerr
addressed to him stirring and eloquent letters in fa
of every just effort that could be made to
the charter of the North Carolina Railroad and thus
ensure to the people the benefits and blessings of
that great work yet seems that MIR. kerrs disin-
terested exerons at that tmc in behalf of the citi
of Gufford, are to be fol gotten, provided the
Federal, Know Nothing Clique at Greensborough
should be permitted to carry out their purposes OF
! vengeance and prescription against him.
In the Sixth District, composed of the Counties
of Stokes, Forsythe Rockingham, Davidson, Davie,
Yadkin, Surry, Ircdell, Alexander and Ashe, the
candidates are Alfred NJ. Scales, Jr, ESQ, Democrat,
and Hon. R. G. Puryear, Whg and Know Nothing.
Mr. Puryear voted, in the last Congress, against the
Nebraska-kansas bill-in other words, against the
right Of his constituents to go aoih their sLace prop
erty to these territories and he comes forward
and asks that this vote be endorsed by slavehod-
ing people, He is also identified with the Know
Nothing faction. We learn that Mr.. Scales has al
ready met him on the stump and that he (Mr. Pur-
year) is evidently shivering in the wind between
old Whiggery and the new order of the dark-lan'
terms. He wants the votes of both. MIR. Scales is
winning golden opinions by his ability and eloquence
before the people he charges home with great eff
feet upon the secret oath bound faction, and relics
for his success upon the Democrats and upon those
high-toned, independent Wings who scorn to bow
down in darkness to Know Nothing edicts. We
call upon our friends in these Counties to rouse
| themselves to the good work-to organize thor
oughly-to induce those few Democrats who have
been seduccd into the dark-lantern, to come out
to meet the enemy at every point, with an ar
dor and firmness which will take nothing less than
a proud triumph for their candidate. a full Demo-
cratic vote in all the Counties, with the aid of the
Wings referred to, will ensure the victory.
In the Seventh District composed of the Counties
of Catawba, CASTOR, Lincoln Meckenburg, Rowan,
Cabarrus. Union, Anson, Stanly, and Cleaveland,
the Hon. Burton Craige, the late member, is the
Democratic candidats and he is opposed, we learn,
by Col. S. N. Stowe, Know Nothing. Mr. Craige
served his constituents with much aoceptabiity in
the late Congress, and enjoys their entire and en-.
thusiastic confidence All the indications warrant
the opinion that he will be reelected by increas-
ed majority Col. Stowe, it is presumed, will not
encounter him on the stump; but if he should, ne
must be overwhelmed. No District in the State ever
had an ADLER, more fearless or faithful representa-
tive than Burton Craige.
In the Eighth Distrist, composed of the Counties
of Wilkes, Watauga, Caldwell, Burke, Rutherford,
Mcdowell, Henderson, Buncombe, Yancey, Hay
wood, Macon, Cherokee, Jackson and Madison, the
candidates are Hon. Thomas L. Clngman, the late
member, Democrat, and L. 3. Carmichael, Esq, fed
erast and Know Nothing. Mr. Clingman is prose
cutting the campaign with great power, and has eve
ry prospect of being reelected by larger majority
than that he obtained over Col. Gather. His fdel
ity to his constituents-hs devotion to the Consti
tuition and to the rights of his section, which he has
maintained with boldness aAA ardor under all cir
cumstanccs, and his scorn for all secret and unman
ly political movements have given him hold upo1
the affections of the free people of the mountains
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