Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-06-23
A FEW STUBBORN FACTS.

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The evils of which the Know Nothing leaders so
much complain-toM it, the influx of foreigners and
the prevalence of the Roman Catholic faith-are
confined almost entirely to the non-slaveholding
States
In the fourteen slavehoding States there about
six millions of white persons and of these but four
hundred thousand are of foreign birth; these are,
of course all Professionals with the exception of the
Catholics and they number in these fourteen States,
only about two hundred thousand. Five millions
six hundred thousand natives to four hundred thou
sand of foreign birth; five millions eight hundred
thousand Professionals to two hundred thousand
Catholics.
The slave property of the South is worth eighteen
hundred millions of doliars-that of North Carolina
is worth eighty ninety millions Its protection
under the federal Constitution-its gradual extern
son not by act of Congress- but by the free choice
of the people of the territories when they come to
form State Constitutions and its safety and security
generally, are considerations of paramount impor-
lance to the South
Are not these things so? Well, Southern Know
Notllih IS went into Convention with Northern Know
Nohings the avowed object being to provide against
the evil so-called and the influence and control of
Roman Catholics and foreigners The North said
to the South, aid us in respect to foreigners and
Catholics the South replied, this evil you call it,
and of which you so deeply complain, neither seri-
ously affects threatens US; but then as we are
members of the same Union and brothers in the
political and social organization, will aid
you condition. and that is, if you will guar
our rights under the Constitution in rela-
ton to slavery and cease to agitate the question to
injury and ultimate ruin. What was the an
of the North? 1t was, zoe a0iU do no such
Mmg-sIaoery is one Of the greatest Of e0iLs and
if that be your condition, mast separate. They
did separate; and we of the South are CALL
ed upon keep up the agitation against foreigners
and Catholics for the benefit Of the North, while
the North, as represented by Know Nothingism, not
only refuses to guarantee our rights under the Con-
sttuton bwt makes fierce apon Institution,
upon the continuance and safety Of aOhich our hap
piness and prosperity essentially Depend
Mr.. Rayner, it seems, offered to ignore the ques-
ton of slavery in Convention-that is offered to
cast it aside and ask protection for it at the
hands of the free States and he ready to vote,
appears, and did cote, not only this, but that the
Know Nothing order was neither pro-savery nor
a6OlitiOn and that with abolition delegates in at
tendance from thirteen or fourteen States, and
with Senator Wilson's bitter denuncations of slave
ry and the South still ringing in his ears He Also
the Missouri line "an outraae"!! We'll, then,
would he not be bound, if in Congress, to 0ote to
remedy this outrage"? Does he, Southern
man, acquesce in this outrage" on the North2
And Mr. Haughton, another delegate from this State,
Is reported in the New York Express to have said,
IN speech in New York Monday night last, that
the abrogaton of the Missouri line received in
Norh-Carolina 60 gross, pGlo06Ie 0ioMtaon OF
0Scmm pledge" He is also reported as saying that
the South chad NO INTEREST EXTENDING SLAVE
RY, and that it was folly to suppose that they
could ever make Kansas slave State And GOV.
Aeill s. Brown, Wing, of Tennessee, is reported in
the New York Herald as saying, in his speech IN
Independence Square, Philadelphia, on the Saturday
evening preceding, that the majority platform
Is the Southern Platforms " not f0ro7stGcery =
that is, not for slavery and towards the close OF his
remarks he declared that he loved the Union more
than he did his own State In the Convention. and
out of it afterwards in Philadelphia and New York,
Southern delegates humbled themselves and begged
for the Union, putting in a word now and then for
the rights of their section and offering, in Mr..
hayners case, to ignore those rights and still act
With the free States but from FIRST to last they
treated as interiors, domneered over, denounced,
and at last their Convention was disorgauized and
dissolved by their Northern allies, to whom they
mad thus humbled themselves, and that too in rela-
non to the institution of slavery, of such immense
value and Importance to the Southern people. And
now they ask US to continue the agitation against
foreigners and Catholics for the benefit of these
Northern nnen--for awe have shown, the South is