Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-06-30
JUNIUS.
June 90, 1855.
For the Standard.

i For the Standard.
| MEssRs ED1roRs What very pretty game the
| Know Nothings have played lately! And now the
question is the sensible voters of all parties IN
North Carolina going to be deceived by it? The Ph-
adephia Convention! what farce 1t was-in which
the Kilkenny cat fight acted over. The North
ern tail bouncing back to it's abolition dens, to get
up some kind of galvanized, artificial head and BODY
and the Southern tail, dragged South by Rayner d
Co.. with the painted caricature OF whole hnoW
Nothing cat-painted all over with the deluslVe
character "This is a national cat the country,
meanwhile, is laughing over the Pickwickian PIC
lures.
have had some opportunities of observing, lately,
what is the rational opinion OF the Know Nothing
meange; and find, generally, nothing but either
a hearty disgust wholesome ridcule excited by
the late escapade of folly and gas at Philadelphia
The Northern Know Nothngs went there, leaders or
nothing; and they went away still determined to be
leaders. They the O2.Ey ones who had met with
success, and were entitled to the distinction Of ruling
the convention and running the country-if perad-
venture, there be not enough honesty and patriot
ism eXtant to save it, The Southern Know Moth
ings went there to cap-trap something whefcwIth
to gull the Southern States. and to get the fusion
and collision of the Northern wing, and i'll ,his they
signay failed for the South is not to be gued
by the silly congomeraton they got up. The deity
of the Unltarians has been invoked to aid them but
the divinity that will succor them Will be d uHat
without even the cooperation of the Arlaas
One thing, Perhaps will save them from everlast
ing obloquy in North Carolina. Raynrr was there
and Haughton there. Rayner, whom the wings
whilon refused TO vote for for Senator; and Haugl-
ton (Lautton,) -who is Haughton? Is lie known
beyond the precincts of Chatham? But where
Badger, where was Graham, where WAS the eloquent
Kerr the three really and justly distinguished wings
of North Carolina? My God! that the wing party
of North Carolina should have to drop such as
those, and be content, under the new name of Know
Nothn5s to be represented by MeSs,s. Rayncr aud
Iaughtoni These two men clever enough, and
honorable enough personality but the idea that the
whg party of this State should have to fall back up
them opponents of their political calibre and
intellectual stamina But then to compensate for
all this, they have gained Reid, of Duplin, and Shep
ard, of Wake W onder how Messrs. Badger and
Graham fancy the swap
You have heard ere this Of the trick attempted to
be played, by publishing speech said to be deliv-
cred by Frederick P. Stanton, at the Barker, New
York demonstration. Since then Mr. Stanton has
published card, denying that he is a Know Moth
ing, denying he made speech, denying being in
New York at the time at all. Such however, are
the dirty tricks the cuvert party seeking to in
fuence the Southern elections with.
There is every prospect in this District of the cleo
ton of DR.. Shaw. The Know Nothing nomination
proves painful the greater portion of that
party Paine's Mexican history is too fresh in the
memory of the people; and his turning up on this
new Know Nothing HORSE" IS not calculated to
give him Il pleasant campaign ride
If you come to Weldon be sure and stop at the
Weldon Hotel, kept by L. J. Jarratt & Co. it
bnes all the conveniences comfort and good fare Of
the large city hotels, without their eXoTbitant
charges The table service is elegant, and the vi
ands loading it, still more worthy of note if you
rive here with good appetite
MORE ANON
WELDON, n. c., June %, 1855.