Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-04-04
DEMOCRATIC KNow-NoTHlNGs.

remarks will apply as well in North Carolina a.
in Virginia. The Enquirer has deneated admir-
ably the character of the two classes of Democrat
ic Kpow-Nothngs. Ifthere be any "vena wretch
es" among US, who have deliberately gone out o.
the Democratic ranks and united themselves with
this new order of jesuits with the view of making
war upon their former party associates, and of OBJ
tanning office thereby, all we have to say is, that
their desertion is no loss, but rather gain; and
that we neither expect nor desire them to return
BIZ To the dec, ivel-to those who are not adelit-
crate and abandoned a!ro>tates-to such as joined
with honest motives aud find themselves in posi-
ton which they regret, and from which they feel it
their duty to retrieve say came back; your re-
turn will be greeted will. pleasure, and the simple
iaiStake YOU have made will not be remembered
nor used to your pre- udce The Enquirer's article
is as follows:
The persons who have deserted the Democratic
party and attached themselves the Know Nothing
Order may be distinguished into two classes,
spects their motive anu the degree of censure which
tl,Ir conduct deserves. 1t would be the grossest i'll
Justice to contound these classes and to heap upon
both the saline measure of contempt and detestatlou.
In every party lind selfish and corrupt men,
who care nothing for principle, who acknowledge
no obligation of good faith and honor towards their
poitlca. associates, and who intent only on the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; of their personal fortunes. These
yenaI wretches are amazingly Jealous and steadtast
in their attachment to party, long their ndi-
ydua interests consist with the general interests of
the country. But when the party discovers their
want OF principle and their untitnesS for any official
trust-wnen their small capital of counterfeit char
acrr exhausted and the odor of their corrupt mo-
tive begins offend the sense IF honorable men,
they straishtway betake themselves to some other
pontcal connection, just as pick pocket changes
locality SUIT the necessities tra1nC ana
his personal security. No party can be long i'll pow
without attracting of these greedy reptiles
Where the is there will the vulIures flock.
The long and apparently permanent ascendency of
the Democratic party has drawn so many sordld
politicians within its organization that the purity of
its principles and the strength OF its system We're in
danger of corruption and decay. Happily at this
juncture Know Nothngism offered refuge to the
SELFISH the needy, and the venal of all parties. The
who were sour from a sense OF baffied cupldty
and disappointed ambitiOn the men who had traded
away ali their little stOdk of personal character the
vino had some imaginary wrong TO redress or
cling of revenge to CRAFTY, FASTENED to this
hospital of intirm politicians this almshouse for
destitute adventures, this asylum of fugitive crmi-
mails. The convict and pauper population of the De-
nocratic party, found Botany Bay in Know Moth
ngism, where no sentiment OF virtue can reproach
Them and no weight of infamy prevent their promo
ton. The desertion of this sort of persons, Is no
loss but rather an incaculaOle gain to the Demo-
cratic party. They gone and can never return.
The of their transportation ends only with life.
There is another class OF persons who have aban-
doned the Democratic party, and taken up with
Know uthingism bat from u motive, and under
ci cunistances which acquits them of any severer
censure, than for inGiscreet creduy in accepting
the pledges of Wing politicians
1t is not forgotten under what plausible pretenceS
Know Nothingsm was introduced into this State.
1t dsclamed any desire for the spoils of power. 1t
protested impartial neutrality IN respect OF party
and promised to question no man for his political
opinions. 1t hung out fictitious platform of prin-
cipleS, in which good and evil arttuiIy blen
ded to deceive unthinking persons. Attracted by
the novelty and mystery Of the thing and persuaded
that at lea harmless, if not indeed positive
" praiseworthy invention, not a few Democrats,
chiefly young men, ventured to join the "Suprrme
Order OF the Star Spangled Banner. " They did so
with no intention OF committing themselves to po-
lilca organization antagoneStic to the Democratic
party. 1t not their purpose to renounce their
party aileg iance TO abure single prln lpie OF
their political creed They Democrats by birth
and Observation-Disclosures i'll every conviction of the
understanding and i'll every impulse of the heart;
and they meant to continue Democrats even i'll a
Know Nothing Council. They were not long, how |
ev,r in discovering that they were the victims of
infamous imprsture Instead Of An unsclfish COM
bnatIon of honest for the purpose of etfrcting
important reforms in the social don of the coun-
try, they found conclave Of dScre'llted and repu
dated politicians, eager for the SpOis and iFrlsuing
for place Instead of the political neutrality which
they were promised th0y soon discovered that Know
Nothn9isn was but another name for Whiggcry. !
lacy found themselves i'll intimate association with
men whom they had been taught by their fathers to |
regard the mpersonation of political hereSy. The
offices of the Order, they saw distributed |
among the active and INSCRIPTIONS agents of the |
Wing party, and the whole power welded and d. |
rected to overthrow the Democracy. Neither their !
political principles their personal feelings |
respected; they found, in Short that they had been
victmized by the old pimps of the Wing party who |
purvey for the Know Nothing bawdy house. What |
could they do but abandon the order in all possible
haste with many the vilany of the men
by VINO they had been betrayed into the Infamous |
association? But, here. they encountered an unex-
pected difficulty. Instead of the easy retreat from
the Order, which they were promised, their seces-
sion was embarrassed by every sort of bubble and
delay, and it only after long and severe strug
gle that they got tn" necessary certificate OF honor
able dismissal. In some instances they were defeat
ed technical objections in others they have
been driven from their purpose by threats of dsms
sal from employment and the like social penalties.
But there is enough of courage and principle in these
young to impel them to grapple with the diff
Guilty and despse the danger, and to resume their
position in the Democratic party at whatever hazard
of personal convenience. BY the attempt to intim
date them, their withdrawal from the Order is made
a matter of personal manhood well as of duty.
Ne assert, OH authority which nobody discredt,
that at every meeting of the Know Nothing Lodges
III this city, many Democratic members apply for
dismissal This is true of the whole State. b fore
the day of election, Whiggery will sit in solitary
grandeur the ruins of the Know Nothing Organ-
Zation
We need not say that the Democratic party is will
lug to accept the recantation of this class OF persons
1hey not deiibeIat and abandoned apostates,
but men of honest motive and sound principle. They