Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-04-14

of belief; and too little about purity of INTENT no
matter what the forms or the name may be, and
| Of faith in the Great Source of creation and re-
dempton. Purity Of intent, purity Of life, and
.faith-how do we see these things illustrated by
these Know Nothing champions Of Protest
antsm? 6 Deal justly, love mercy, and walk
humby before Cod Are we to take these men
patterns in this respect! Pure religion and
indebted, before God, the Father, is to visit the
widow and the ftthe,e in their atlicton. and to
| keep ourselves unsputted from the world" Who
does that Is there man among We who can
throw the first stone? Did these Committee
me bethink themselves to go down into the abodcs
OF wretchedness in Boston did they visit, with
messages and deeds of kindness, their colored
friends, the free negroes, who are starving and
shivering within a few rods of them did they
remember the priest and the Levite, who passed
by in their pride, and the poor Samaritan, who
bound up the wounds of the stranger by the way
side did they enter the factories in their own
State, where many thousands Of pale girls toll for
twelve long hours each day in the hot air. for
than will barely support them, and deliver
words Of encouragement and hope did they re-
member tina: their ancestors dared the dangers of
the stormy main, and encountered savage foe,
and underwent separation from home, and friends,
and kindred, and incurred privations and sutferngs
untold, to establish on that very spot that liberty
of conscience, and those great principles Of person
al right which they We're engaged in violating
just imagine Carver, and Bradford, and Standish,
and Winthrop making descent, in omnbusses,
armed with the power of the State, on ordinary
schooI-a school kept by feeble women for the
education of little girls. Good God lis that
Massachusetts Not is d base counterfeit; new
men have got ill., Webster is dead, and Everett, and
Choate, and Loring, and other great spirits have
been silenced The hump Parliament" exists
again under Know Nothing auspices, aud like John
Kandophs mackercl by moonlight, it stinks and
Shines and shines and stinks. Every gale from
Boston brings to us the stencil. The odour IS that
OF compound of brass, bigotrv, witch burning,
of three cent pieces heated, and Of real Guinea
negro. This is Sam. =" He looks as if he had
been on egg-sucking expedition, instead Of at Il
nunnery. His bowels Of compassion for the poor
foreigners and Catholics are 50 moved that he
fairly grins with VICE. In the agony of his prayers
and tears, uttered and shed in the OF Protes
LtLl>HI nc -IOLteH HIS LOOdccO
his rum. Poor, dear fellow when the pious
paroxysm passes, he shall enjoy both in double
measure
But seriously, hear Daniel Webster! We quote
from his great discourse, delivered at Plymouth
Rock, Dec. 1920:
Tile principle Of religious tozerotion, to arl ch
tile acOrid huS st0vty, is ut once the n,Ost
just nnd the most tciSe u ill principles"
Again he says:
Thanks be to God, that this spot acas honored as
tile as Lum Of retigious liberty. May It's standard,
reared here remain forever May it rise up high
as heaven, till its banner shall fan the air of both
continents, and wave as glorious ensign Of peace
and security 10 the nations!"
Glorious great hearted tolerant, largely -enliyht-
ened, ftr-seeing man Daniel Webster speaks from
the grave; and if now living, even he would have
to search for words in which to embody his con-
tempt and scorn for the poor vermn who have
crawled into the high places which he once honor
ed and adorned.
G4E- Read the following from the New York Her.
add one of the organs of the Know Nothing or
ganzation:
"TnE SCHOOL QUESTION MISUNDERSTANDING
OBJECTION Account OF COLOR.-There appears to
be some prospect of the passage, by the Amer
lean party of the Massachusetts, Legislature Of law
providing for the admission into the common school
of children of the Africa footing of equali-
ty with the descendants of the org nal Purilans.
This may do for Massachusetts,, perhaps but it
strikes that it is poor eXpedicnt of aid and
fort to the new American party in Virginia. If the
Know Nothings of the North chIuse to admit white,
black and yellow children upon the common level of
equality into their public schools, the Know Moth
ings of the South must secede from them or be
disbanded No party in the South cooperate
with any party in the North which attempts to en-
force, socially politically, this ultra-abol dac-
trine of amagamation. Of late have been puz-
zled guess and should like to know, what the
national principles of this new American party in
Massachusetts? They hold the Legislature with
scarcely opposing voice against them in either
house. What is the meaning of this BILL con-
sulting it in reference to the campaign of 1856 Is
it sectional a national movement? a III easure of
peace agitation? conservative abolition? We
should like to know"
Mr.. KERR.-The Milton Chronicle is evidently
Concerned at Mr. Kerr's recent speech at Yancey-
vile. That paper says:
Fearing that might misrepresent Mr.. Kerr
shall not attempt to give account of his speech
We will remark however that he came down on
" Sam" like thousand of brick. Samival" has
slipped note under sanctum door in which he
requests to say That he has often heard it thun
der, because he rides in the " Storm" He thanks
Mr. Kerr for entertaining notions compatible
with the views ofthe Americans, and is not disposed
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