Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-08-22
HON. A. v. BROWN ON KNOW NoTHING1sM.


ten by Ex-Governor A. V. Brown, of Tennessee, on
Know Nothingism, to which we invite particular
attention. He dissects the monster with keen and
merciess pen; pointed with truth,
1t is certain, too, that the oaths administered
all illegal, and that both they who administer them,
and they who receive them, make themselves liable
! to indictment under the laws of the country.
! Look at that oath which says, "You do solemnly
swear that you will support in all political matters,
for all political Offices members of this order in pre-
ference to other persons; you do also promise and
swear, that this and all other obligations which you
have previously taken in this order shall be pt
through life sacred and inviolate." Mark how that
wicked man who devised this horrid oath has word
ed it No matter how worthless the candidate NOM
mated IN the order may be, you must support him.
If he be Benedict Arnold an the order, you must
vote for him, even againsta George Washington ont
of the order-you must do so, too, through your
whole life! No matter how corrupt and tyrannical
this order may become in after times still you must
hold on to it in its corruption ! Now, what is all
this but conspiracy against the freedom Of election,
! and therefore, indctable and punishable by law?
This new order now says every day, that it took
its rise out of the corruption of the two old pot
cal parties. Why, then, may 1t not become corrupt
itself? and when becomes SO, Why should it swear
its followers to stick to it even in its corruption
Gov. NELL S. Brown, who is rendering himself most
conspicuous in founding this new party, said him
self, in of his speeches, "that he has conf
dence, for one in the perpetual purity and
of any party, however it may be organized" Well,
then, if his Know-nothng party is to be pure only
for ine why brace it up, by oaths, that shall e0er
be Kept through life sacred and invioate? No good
can fail to see, that perpetual poaoer the OBJ
ject; and q perpetual oath was the means OF secur-
ing it.
. Perpetual power! over what? Another of these
ho1rd oaths informs u.s. as it has been often pub
lished and not denied &C you do solemnly that
you WILL in all things, political or social so far as
this order is concerned, comply with the will OF a
majority, though it may conflict with your persona al
preferences" What unbounded power every
thing political, and every thing social! Under this
power it can pull down any merchant or business
man that it does not like. 1t can pull down any
mechanic or laboring man it chooses. On any night,
when the town or neighborhood council shall meet,
they can doom to destruction every of any
profession calling which majority, even of one,
may not like. All this il do with perfect safety
to its members. They all sworn to secrecy
They will not testify in court or out of court, any
thing against themselves or one another. The judge
is member, and sworn to comply with the will of
a majority. The jury who may have TO try any
suit, which may be brought to recover damages for
loss Of property character are all members, and
leagued and sworn to carry out the unholy work of
destruction. Now, what is this oath but an oatI age
all law, human and divine-an outrage against
all the precepts and principles of true religion and
what had not better live at Constantinople
among the Turks, or among the rowing Tartars of
the desert than to live in constant dread under the
power and control of such secret and midnight
order?
The truth is that tell the extent of
the wickednesS and danger of this and strange
originally IL was never intended lnaL
any not Of the order should look into this char
mel house, filed with {" dead mems boncs"-but
disclosure after disclosure, made by men that the
public could not doubt, has compelled the order TO
lift up the veil, rather little of it, and
manifest, here and there only few of the huge
mites that lie concealed in its dark bosom.
EFFECTS OF ABoLlrIoN1sM.-The editor of the New
York Evening Mirror writing from Saratoga, says:
The character of the company is somewhat
changed. The South are not represented We
miss the beautiful and brilliant flowers of that
Warmer cline that lies,
In ten degrees of the more effulgent Skies
The of Florida, the magnolias of Alabama,
not here. The sunny-eyed daughter of Carolina,
graceful the palms that shade her native plains;
the stately Kentuckian, fair and fresh the
streams that run laughing through her wales; the
warm and frank-hearted Mississppian, sweet and
as exuberant as his own sugar cane-they are not
here! And why?
The Northern abolitionists who steal the nurses
body and coachmen from Southern families
are cheating hotels and merchants of Southern
CUSTOM and watering place society of the beaux
and bellies who were wont to grace it. We learn
that all the popular resorts South of Mason
and Dixons line, full this to overfowing
Such is the effect of fanaticism. We give the fact
to-day; but have not space 10 comment upon the |
coming consequences of this practical non-inter-
course system.
The ScorcH CALCULATING GIRL.-The Ayr Adver. |