Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-11-10

MEssRs. EDIToRs: see in your issue of the 9th
of October series of resolutions passed by the late
Know Nothing Convention said to have been held in
Raleigh, which to indicate that the farce is yet
to be kept up I cannot but think it would have
been more udicious for the members of this effete
order to have kept quiet for until their men,
DRY had died out in the minds of men, and then de-
MED that such an organization had ever existed
affirming, that it was but nightmare which for a
time had disturbed the dreams of the people.
Will the authors of the resolutions inform u.s. the
uninitiated, what it which rendered secresy ne
ceSSary, and what 1T that has persuaded them
to constitute themselves into publicly 0TgGniged
party? To farmer like me, an analogy in the nat
ural world presents itself Frost bites the cotton
boil and it opens its treasures to the first kiss of the
sun. political frost nips Know Nothingism and
it spreads itself open to the light. But what
fession have we here from the youngsters" That
they have for 12.or 8 months been connected with
secretyoganized and oath bound political party land
that, too in this free Republic where speech and pen
are as free as the air breathe. Why if Demo-
Gratis had done and confessed these things, these
youngsters" and some odd uns, " sympathisers,
would have made {" Rome howl" with their moral
spamotc denunciatons, each particular hair would
have stood end and bristled with virtuous indig-
nation but the " Goths and Vandals," 1 suppose
are in office, and nothing can be wrong which will
GUST them.
What is the "political policy enunciatcd in the
Know Nothing platform by the National Council at
Philadelphia which is ratified and endorsed" by
North Carolina Convention? Can it be the 18th
Article of that platform which is thus damned
with faint praise" and made by Southern COnven-
ton subservient the miserable object of keeping
out of Office class of persons and religionists who
have never done us harm, but have conferred upon
our common country the benefits of their genius,
their labor, and their moral teaching. The whole
North is aroused. VIM. II Seward leads the column
of Black Republication, not against slavery in the
territories, abstract evil, but against the
shareholders erery 7chere, privileged class
istocratc element in our country. So dangerous
and alarming is this new fusion, black republican
party at the North that the conservative of all
parties there, burying the old animosities and pref
udices are combining to defeat them. But here in
North Carolina, Know Nothing Convention de-
clares that the keeping few foreigners and italian
religionsts out of office is paramount to all other
considerations. Office! Officc!! Ofice!!! When
before ever such an cutlery about office? And
that. too from party who have "a disgust for the
wild hunt after office which characterzes the age"
WHY, if it can be DONE let us have the Naval Board
at Washington to sit on this old defunct dark lam
tern ism. Let it put some of the K. n. leaders, on
furough pay, give others cooked hat and militia
title let it grant in perpetuty to others the position
of marshals and committee men, at 4th of July
celebrations and perhaps the dsgraceful "disgust"
and unconcern about office will no longer afict the
public and undermine the public morals
But there is something ominous in this Conventions
giving the cold shoulder TO the paramount Issue of the
day-the issue vital to the South-vtal to the Union
they profess to love- Can it be that North Carolina
shareholders have succumbed to the teachings of
Messrs. Wilson, Hale and Johnson? Do they mean
by these resolutions to instruct their delegates to
Cincinnati and to prepare the mind of North Caro-
linianS to ignore the slavery question and for the
lettering of hopeless chance for office make APP
peal to the religious animostes and national preu
dices of the country? 1t seems almost impossible
chat such be North Carolina Know Nothing
ism and vet what else the resolutions mean p
The Northern Abotioniss making the slavery
question override all other issues and Southern
shareholders making all other issues override the
slavery question What can he the result but ag-
ere WI no freemon hat but
a Union which none but a slave would cling o.
Youngsters " must indeed have formed this new
patform-no old cat would have covered himself so
badly in the meal tub.
Now, Messrs. Editors every man who reads and
reflects knows that Know Nothing candidate can |
not succeed in Presidential race. The South al |
most unanimously have condemned the order In |
the North fusion has swallowed it. There are but |
two parties of strength IN the country-Black Re-
publicanism and Democracy-Seward or the Demo- |
cratic nominee must be elected by the people, or |
the election must go to the House of Representa- |
tives; and what Southern would be willing that |
the election of Chief Magistrate should devolve
a body known to be averse to their interests |
and yet what other result can be accomplished by |
keeping up this miserable farce and folly-an Amer
lean party
Now, look to the record, Southerners and your
rights equals in this Union being the issue forced
upon you, what can you find for compaint-what |
save for admiration in the position of the Demo- |
cratic party? " ell may its enemies seek to change
its issues; for the clamor of Northern fanaticisln
reaches us even here, charging Democracy not with
merely tolerating slavery, submitting to its
tons, but waging to extend its territory, power
and influence. Florida, Louisiana and Texas arc
the arguments by which it is attempted to overcome
the noble band ofmoral heroes who fight battles at
the North, and whom Know Nothingism, with
strange blindness would leave to fight alone,
cheered by voice of encouragement and kindness,
but told we are too busy hunting the foreigner and
Catholic to attend to our interests in insttu-
tons.
Upon this subject the bitterest and most malignant
can find no point where they direct
an attack against the administration of Franklin
Pierce. He has been true to the common bond of
the common brotherhood, ~ and as a consequence,
true to us. Why, then should any man follow the
advice of that pirate and scavenger of the press,
Bennett, and seek to defeat where he cannot con-
qucr? Why not postpone the meeting of the NOM
mating Convention to better season than June |
1856, viz: to March, 1857, to a better place than
Cineinnati-to Washington City, for better pur-
pose than to nominate guerilla chief-to see Ma
tional Democratic President inaugurated; for this
this thing will most surely be done, and that, too
with the assistance of the wsest and best of the old
Wing party. With the aid of such men as Dixon,
Benjamin. Stephens, Toombs, Choate, Everett, VIM
throp, Kerr. Ciingman and host of Others all flu
sions, Sans and other guerrilla parties will by the
Democracy be lin the deep bosom of the ocean buried
from which "vasty Deep" not even Glendower will
be able to call them.
FARMER.
A NEwsPAPER.-It was Bishop Horner's opinion