Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-07-07

/ the common council. Happily for the credit OF the
cty the fusion of honest wings and democrats aver
ted this oshonor and determined that SucH Alner1-
cans should not rule in this part of America
To this painful disclosure and exposition OF con-
duct the undersigned have been driven by the arti
fee of this address of Mr. Ashmeads executive
committee, and the boast that the late victory was
one over the combined wing and democratic paftleS.
1t was no such thing The know nothing managers
first contryed to secure an ascendancy In the wing
meetings in the wing wards, and used The name and
the apparent organization OF tne wng parry oeioIe
the election and then, the moment 1t is over, talk
loudly and in the language OF TINS lnsolent ADDRESS
claim it victory over the wings. rms, as we
have already said is characteristic trait OF know
nothing tactics and this have felt 1t our duty to
expose
this secret party to avow their principles in pub
lc and invite to them popular and FAIR scrutiny !;
or if the machinery of secrecy (the safeguard of
empires everywhere is too precious TO them-n
they must be oath bound--let them not be ashamed
of their oaths-not compel their members to swear
allegiance inside and dsavow 1t OUTSIDE; let them
organize distinctively, of Know Nothngs or secret
Americans proscriptve of foreigners and lntolerant
of creeds, and we shall be prepared to meet them
without fear of the result No such banner will
bear the sunlight or the open air. We have attribut-
ed to this organization nothing but what 1t is proud
to deserve The failure of the first year OF consolrda
ton, with local bankruptcy and discomfort IN its
train rests the party who, in 1854, carried the
CITY by with majority varying from seven 10
fifteen thousand. 1t may be hard to distinguish the
bowls of the wolves inside ana out; IL Is cohceoeo
that, terrified by sounds from some quarter, many
of them who, on the surge of triumphant Know
Nothingism, were lifted to high position year ago,
have, in the language of one of the most eloquent
opponents of the ORDER found it necessary to seek
the refuge of private life. One other lost his seat
by fraud in his election others are in danger Inc
conduct of the late Legislature in the particulars we
have referred to- cannot be disavowed by that party
who claimed to count among their adnerentS tnree-
:ourths of its members Had not the machinery OF
the Order its secrecy its want of candor, its evas-
IONS it's oaths to-day, and its denlals o-morroW,
disqualified it for the effort, when intrigue and cor
ruption of one kind or another, were found to have
taken possession of it, the American party would
have cast them out forever with the with which
the American heart left to its own impulses, always
feels for sneaking, secret namy. But shame and
the obligation of the oath prevented 1t. very few
only were found who had the manliness TO denounce
it. To them be all honor. 1t was the first and we
are very sure it will be the last, leg
slature that met in Pennsylvania. Another
such victory as that of this month will settle the
question.
In conclusion. we call upon the Wings, the indie
pendent Wings, to be Steadfast, lmmovable-not
only to keep but watch their organization and to
make it available for good, separately or by comol-
nation. The twenty-five thousand men, W hlgs and
Democrats, who voted together recently, cannot be
easily dsunited long as they in the princi
pies of local reform and opposition to all secret poll
teal organizations; and if united, they must prevail
The system of impressment never made good soldiers.
and deserters from the secret camps and caverns are
daily coming in. Let them be treated kindly and
magnanimousy but with those adventures or dupes
for such is the character of the active adherents of
ths organization-who seek to perpetuate it, there
can be sympathy on the part of any right-minded
man. The authority of every great statesmen ofthe
republic, from the days of Washington to ours IS
against all secret and unreasonable political
tons. ALFRED l.. HOUGH, Chm.
WIN. j. GILLTNGHAM } Soot,s
BENJAMIN HUCKEL.