Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-03-03

ORIGIN OF KNOW NoTHINGIsM-THE HARTFORD Con-
yESTION. BY the common consent of mankind the
stigma Of incapable infamy attaches to the Hartford
C0nreHtion. Will it be believed, nevertheless, that
the most odous principles of that Internal conclave,
revived and embodied in Know Nothingism, are now
openly advocated and secretly prac:iccd in Virginia
in Virginia. the birthplace Of rePnblicanism, the
infeXible and triumphant foe of Federalism all its
forms-in Virginia, whence issued the protest that
overthrow the Alien and Sediton laws-in Virginia.
whose Democracy have ever been true to the teach
ings of Jefferson and MadiSOn-will it be believed
that here and this day the and most criminal
spirit Of the Hartford Convention is revived and
commended to popular approval? 1et Such is the
fact, of which this is the proof: On the 29th of
December 1914, while Jackson preparing for
the battle of New Orleans, and native and foreign
born citizens about to vindicatc their patriotism
in noble manner, it was resolved in the Hartford
Convention. Tint tie cup0city IF naturulized citi-
Gems t" ho'd o7ices Of trust honor, or enaolumemt
ought to be restroiued." On the 9th, it was re
solved " That it is cxpedient to make provisions
for restraining Congress in the exercise their I'M
limited power to make new States, and admit them
into the Union And, on the 18th it was resolved.
" That the inriOL0bIe Secresy shall be obserred
BY each member Of this Conrantion, Including the
Secret0ry To all propostions debates and proceel
ings thereof untu this Injunction shall be suspended
or dItered'
Is not the original of -Nothingsm discover
ed Have we not traced its paternity back to the
infamous Hartford Convention? Now shall dis
honor the memory Of our fathers, by approving
principles to which they attached the mark of ever
lasting disgrace? Can the ntocrant spirit, the an
riolable secresy the reasonable principles of the
Hartford Convention, find favor with the Democra-
cy of Virginia We answer, no never! Eng.
What is the matter with the Democratic party in
the Northern Staes-in the Northern Democratic
States in States where Whiggery has been almost
unknown? These Democratic States are out-Herod-
ing Abolition Massachusetts, long way They are
passing laws the most insulting and oppressive to
the South-!aws which, heretofore have found no
place upon the statute book of Federal Massachu-
setts We referred day two ago to some ugly
facts establishing the thorough Abolitionsm of the
Northern Dcmocracy.-We have now to record the
passage of bill, by the Senate of Mchigan-anoth-
out and out Democratic State-reftlsing the use
of the as of the State for the detention of Fugitive
slaVes-the vote being nineteen to seventh Where
are the national Democracy of Michigan? Where
the ".taithtul qIies" when such bills are pas
sed ?-[ Richmond Wing Of yesterday
Our neighbor shall have a satisfactory answer.
The national Democracy" of the North have been
overthrown by Fusion party of Wings and Know
Nothings, by whom were perpetrated the outrages
upon the Constitution which our neghbor recites
with such admirable indignation. The spirit of the
" National Democracy of the North" was displayed
in the resolutions of the Connecticut Democracy 1t
is spirit of fearless and uncompromising devotion
to the Constitution and the guarantees Of republi-
can lberty-a spirit without faint Of time-serving
tmidity, or of sectional fanatcism-a spirit to be
found nowhere in the North but in the bosom of the
. National Democracy Rich. Eng.