Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-06-16


He is exposing the abolition influences by which the
Know Nothing organization is controlled in the free
States, and warning his friends and constituents
resist the spread of the dark lanterns in their midst
He has been distinguished for years as an active
Wing leader and was the candidate of his party for
Governor in 1862. In that campaign, as well pre-
viously, he avowed himself an ultra Union man
and was quite severe in his illusions to those who
hold States rights doctrines He went to Wash
ington, and observed for himself the rapid strides
which .abolitonisn making. He witnessed and
felt man the insolence and injustice which char
acterize the vile horde of freesoers and abolition
sts and he at length spoke out for his section and
his constituents in tones of thunder, rebuking
assailants, and declaring that there could be no
Union without the Constitution. He perceived for
himself that Know Nothingism, fusion, or
organizations in the free States were but other names
for abolitionism and that under this garb the
mics of the South were advancing with and
steady steps to the consummaton of their fell de-
signs. He returned homo, and, as have stated,
raised his voice of warning; and though the Know
Nothings, nine-tenthS of whom Wings, profess
deprecate the existence of party and to nculcate
spirit of independence in public men, yet he is to
be stricken down by these same men, notwthstand-
ing his repeated declarations that he is good
Wing as he was and because he has dared, on
questions above and beyond party, to think for him
self! We took occasion, long before this contest
commenced, to commend both Mr.. Kerr and Mr..
Badger for their manly and patriotic on the
Nebraska-Kansas question and we have nothing to
add or to withdraw in this respect. The Editors of
this journal have had no personal intercourse or
correspondence with Mr.. Kerr for years-their per-
sonal feelings cannot be supposed to be enlisted in
his favor; and the inference, therefore, is that they
are prepared calmly to do justice to him public
man, and to his opponent, Mr.. Reade. The princi-
pal Editor well remembers that in 1s49, Mr.. Kerr
addressed to him stirring and eloquent letters in ia
of every just effort that could be made to
the charter of the North Carolina Railroad and thus
ensure to the people the benefits and blessings of
that great work; yet it that Mr.. Kerr's disn-
terested exertons at that time, in behalf of the cit
of Guilfford are to be fol- gotten provided the
Federal, Know Nothing Clique at Greensborough
should be permitted to carry out their purposes of
vengeance and prescription against him.
In the Sixth District, composed of the Counties
of Stokes, Forsythe Rockingham Davidson, Davie,
Yadkin, Surry, Iredell, Alexander and Ashe, the
candidates are Alfred NJ. Scales, Jr, Esq., Democrat,
and Hon. r. G.. Puryear, Wing and Know Nothing.
Mr. Puryear voted, in the last Congress, against the
right Of his constituents go eOith their slare prop
erty to these territories and he forward
and asks that this vote be endorsed by slavehold
ing people He is also identified with the Know
Nothing faction. We learn that Mr. Scales has al
ready met him on the stump, and that he CMr. Pur-
Year, is evidently shvering in the wind between
Did Whiggery and the new order of the dark-lan-
terms. He wants the votes of both. Mr.. Scales is
winning golden opinions by his ability and eoquence
before the people he charges home with great eff
feet upon the secret bound faction, and relies
for his success upon the Democrats and upon those
high-toned independent Wings who to bow
down in darkness to Know Nothing cdicts. We
call upon our friends in these Counties to rouse
themselves to the good work-to organize thor
induce those few Democrats who have
been seduced into the dark-lantern, to come out
to meet the enemy at every point, with an ar
dor and firmness which will take nothing less than
a proud triumph for their candidate. A full Demo-
crate vote in all the Counties, with the aid of the
Wings referred to, will ensure the victory.
In the Seventh District, composed of the Counties
of Catawba, Castor, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan,
Cabarrus. Union, Arson, Stanly, and Cleaveland,
the Hon. Burton Crage, the late member, is the
Democratic candidate; and he is opposed, we learn
by Col. S. n Stowe, Know Nothing. Mr.. Craige
served his constituents with much acceptablity in
the late Congress- and enjoys their entire and en-
thusiastic confidence All the indications warrant
the opinion that he will be reelected by increas
ed majority. Col. Stowe, it is presumed, will not
him on the stump; but if he should, he
must be overwhelmed. No District in the State ever
had an ADLER, more fearless or faithful representa-
tive than Burton Craige.
In the Eighth Distrist, composed of the Counties
Of Wilkes, Watauga, Caldwell, Burke, Rutherford,
Henderson, Buncombe, Yancey, Hay
wood, Macon, Cherokee, jackson and Madison, the
candidates are Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, the late
member Democrat and L. B. Carmichael, Esq, fed
,ralist and Know Nothing. Mr.. Clingman is prose-
cutting the campaign with great power, and has eve
y prospect of being reelected by larger majority
han that he obtained over Col. Gather. His fide-
ty to his consttuents-his devotion to the Consti
uton and to the rights of his section, which he has
maintained with boldness and ardor under all cir.
,umstances and his scorn for all secret and unman
v political movements, have given him a hold upon
he affections of the free people of the mountains,
which can never be affected either by the Raleigh
Wing Clique by the midnight cabals of the dark
anterns. The atmosphere of the mountains i'll his
District is the very breath of liberty and independ
mt thought and the jewellers there filled with the
spirit of the heroes who fought and conquered at
Kings Mountain, and undwarfed by the mysteries
If midnight, oath-bound lodges, oiU act for them