Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-10-03
. & "a ess sg9 a. sssS For the Standard.
M IS y s. WINsToN, Sept 10, 1866.

Il 81 g WIssros, Sept. 10, 1866.
Messrs. Holden Dc WSzson
Il GENTIEMEN VIII you please insert in your col
umns sketch of the proceedings of the Democratic
meeting which took place here to-day?
| The Democracy of Forsythe county, in pursu-
ance of appointment the day previous, met at Win
ston on Wednesday, the 18th inst. There having
| been announcement made through the Peoples
Press, that meeting of the Know Nothing, or So
called American party, and the friends of Americans
ruling America, would be held this place Tuesday,
the 18th of September to which all persons, irrcs-
respective of party were invited to attend and that
several distinguished speakers would address the
| meeting Of course the novelty, if nothing .clse,
| attracted respectable attention. But upon the
| ganizaton of the meeting an inquiry made in
/ behalf of the Democracy, TO know if in fact the
meeting free, and that all parties could take
part unfortunately, to which inquiry a voice of
the house decided in the affirmative; but it being
| charged by an eminent speaker of the American
party that this union of Democracy and Stree fight
as it termed, the getting up =" of certain
Democratic leader in this section for the purpose of
! injuring the American meeting the Democrats
| Immediately withdrew and resolved to hold mass
meeting on the next day. At which time, with the
short notice of twenty hours, the Court House
was crowded with the bone and sinew of the land
the staunch farmers and yeomanry of the country
class of people, you know, that always make
the best Democrats. j. A. Waugh, Esq, called
to the Chair; and on notion j. w. Alspaugh was
appointed Secretary The Chairman, after making
few appropriate remarks in reference to the pro-
ceedings of the Know Nothing meeting on the day
previous, proceeded to explain the object of the
meeting; whereupon,
Mr.. Clement, of Davie, was first called to the
floor. 1t was then when the sneerng scott of Know
Nothingism received heavy and deadly shaft.
The imaginary hope of the Order that the action
the day before had won for it majority of the vo-
ters and that they would succeed in their real OBJ
ject " to get out the ms and to get in the OUTS
grew darker and more glimmering before them than
the dim twinkling of midnight lantern, Before
the burning thoughts and breathing words of the
young orator. crafty old politicians of the American
party seen to grow pale, casting their look up
their feet, and at one time knot of them just
inside the bar grouped together if in counsel
whether not they should make disposition
to ward off the heavy blows that being inhict-
ed upon their Order and its principles. He showed
that even the name American was as might be
pected of party that turks under the cover of
night stolen-that it rightfully belonged to another
class and that their name proper was the one in
which they were christened when they first emana.
ted from the hot bed of abolitonism north He
supposed that party whose principles were cock
istentl with the ConSttution-whose basis
broad the union-and in whose development,
more than any other, the mighty fabric of Ameri-
can freedom and American independence had been
moulded and fashioned into its present magnif-
cent grandeur-had rather title to the name Amer
lean. He thought that between two parties the one
standing on but two single deas-the foreigner and
the Catholic-and that had attempted to SANDER
the fair fame of this nation by its cries of corrup
ton against the government and its administrators,
and that had knit itself into being under the
of darkness-by secret oaths and the very tenden-
cy Of whose avoWed principles seemed only to pro-
scrpton and persecution; the other, the one under
whose benign influence this Union has continued to
expand until the great American Eagle of thirty
plumes has borne himself heavenward till he now
looks down upon whole nation of unparalleled
freemen stretching from Maine to California, and
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and who could by
single call marshall soldiers enough in the field to
vanquish the armies of Sebastopol in a single !
charge bear but little comparison for merit and true
49, Oc
our space will not allow us to comment farther
Mr.. Clements most excellent speech. /
Next on being called for, Mr.. Mclean, of Gull !
ford came forward, and with the more than usual |
power and force of logic of that distinguished law
yer, he exposed the oaths the secrecy, the pro- !
scription, the persecution, the entire machinery and
proceedings of the darkantern order. He thought |
that its whole tendency not to promote the sal
vatian of the country, true patriotism national hon.
and glory as his friends of the opposite party |
had vainly attempted to show the day preceding;
but political strife persecution and prescription for
religious opinions, for no other than electoneering
purposes, and to make white slaves for the North.
He said that the most ridiculous idea in the world |
was to his mind this pretended fear the part of
American citizens of the Pope contemplate being |
who had been compelled for years to seek protec-
ton from the fury of his subjects at home, in
the bosom of standing army. He thought that
tyro could through such faacy, the real fear be-
ing, not of the Pope his Priests, but of the Dem
ocratc party. The speaker heartily hated the
thought of Ministers of the Gospel meddng with |
politics. He was of opinion that their hands and
hearts should be kept Clean and garments unstaned
and that they should fight the devil and the Pope
outside of political animosity-with the weapon
which the God of Heaven had placed in their hands.
He believed in the good old test for Office, was the
candidate qualified-was he honest man-was
he sound upon the Constitution and upon the equal
privileges of the States He believed, furthermore
in appealing to mems better nature to arouse them
patriotism and to bind them together in the bonds
of love for their country and for their God but not
in the new mode of swearing them together with !
dark oaths. There many more points in each of
these gentlemen's speeches prolific in truth and
sound in argument, which would like to notice,
but the length of our minutes forbid We have
had to write entirely from memory, and do not pre-
tend to give precise language, at all able
to present the arguments in half their original
strength. We heartily wish that the entire voters
IF North Carolina could have heard the whole
speeches. Upon the whole, we think that Know
Nothingism received shock in this section of coun-
Try that will require many more " American meet
ngs and the friends ofAmericans ruling America"
% recover from it. -. ....t' |