Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-09-26
p,on, the Oxford Miss Democratic Flag.


ORIGIN OF KNOW NoTuINGIsM-ITs PREJUDICIAL BEAR
ING UPON THE WEALTH STRENGTH OF THE
COUNTRY. -, ,r,,..
In nv address to the Preachers of the Methodist
Church have shown that if all the foreigners who
come to this country were both Catholics and pau
pers and that if they all voted 10 man uhoer tue
dctation of the Pope still Know Nothingism is not
the remedy for these eyls; ana We're, IL rs
have nothing to do. Thus far l have discussed the
subject under concessions which confined me WITHIN
a circle so narrow, that its circumference almost
touched its centre. / am now to present II IN us
proper light; from whence it will appear, that no
Christian, no patriot, should attach himself TO inc
"American party" Hitherto l have not calieo II
by that name 1st because that is not It's oaptslha
name and I'd, because it deslgnates no attrioute
that belongs to it. But as Cancellation is my OBJECT
and the Know Nothings are over SENSITIVE at tnls
moment, will compromise matters ana cali u oy
the one name or the other, as may, 1or the time De-
ing seem most appropriate to the occasion. ANA
here let me remark, for all, that know there
are MANY good men and true attached to the Amer
lean party that they Joined it from good motives
and with the honest design of promoting the inter
est of the country. To such, can only say, that
whatever may be found in my remarks that saVors
of bitterness, is not intended for them. But Tor the
Order-the organization-its projectors, its mode OF
operation, and many of its votaries, have no res
pect, nor do they deserve any. of these shall
speak according my estimation OF their deserts.
It is their privilege to recrminate and If the good
and virtuous will stand aside from the confct, why
cation which at times it will be impossible to avoid
But if they will thrust themselves into the contest
as some of them have already DONE they must share
the fate of their allies. shall not withhold or avert
a single shaft out of courtesy kindness to them
Of all the parties conjured up in this land OF
party legerdeman this is the only one that ever ex
acted respect from its opponents by reason OF the
wise and good that belonged to it-respect, mean,
such as would be due to these men In the private
circle. This is what the Know Nothlngs demand;
and that, too, when they are beginning men whose
characters have stood above reproot longer than
they have stood upon the face OF the earth w hle
they are exacting so much, let them extend little
indulgence to who verify believes that they are
sapping the foundations of the GoVernment-Who
began to write when but one prediction OF his con-
corning it remained to be fulfilled; and who writes
now when It is entirely and lamentably fulfilled,
who uttered his prediction, when the party had not
even a name-when he did not believe there was
member of it within five hundred miles Of the State
of Mississippi, and when the wsest of five hundred
men who heard him, regarded it as little more than
commencement defamation.
The origin of Know Nothingsm seems to be
mystery to everybody Even the most erudite OF
the Order shed no light upon it think can
trace it to its cause if not to its author Whether
be right wrong, reflections will lead US to
of the most beautiful morals that ever was ad-
dressed to a self. ruling people
1t was not until the year 1916 that Massachusetts
aboltionism got completely beside itself up to TINS
period, it had been held in check by the gravity,
decency and selfrespect of the more recently lnoc-
uated of its victims and the yet remaining but fast
decaying soundness of public opinion III that State
But in this and the succeeding year, it reached its
grand climacteric, and doomed out in all its hide
GUS deformity. 1t threw off all decency, all deco
rum all sefrespect, all patriotism, all regard for
public opinion, all principle. In January, 1877,
there grand meeting of the anti-Sla7ery So
ciety in Boston, headed by President, twenty-slx
Vice Presidents, Caroline Weston being one) two
Secretaries, one Auditor, and twelve Counsellors-
three of them women, whose names, for the honor
of the SEX and being next in rank to Vice Presl-
dent Caroline Weston, will record: Maria Weston
Chapman Eliza Lee Fallen, and Anna Warren w es-
ton. In this meeting, almost every county in Mas
sachusetts if not every one, represented.
To this august assembly, the Board of Managers
presented report, which opens with complaint
against the &c slave power" of course. 1t then pro-
ceeds to the Mexican in regard to which, it holds
this language: I'VE fear that the vastly greater
of the United States for the supply OF men
and money, will sooner or later extort from their
weaker neighbor their own terms of peace. This
event must be deprecated by every lover of human
ty, of justice and of freedom. Every good and
humane man must earnestly hope that success may
attend upon that power which is striving to remove
from its soil piratical horde of banditt."
- AdYerting to the Wilmot proviso the report pro-
ceeds: Slavery must, of necessity be triumphant,
&c-there is remedy but reyolution-a revoiu-
luton beginning like all such, the hearts and minds
of men, but manifested in due time in the disrup-
tionkof the Union, in the overthrow of our present
deceptive constitution" Speaking of the State, it
says cher real prosperity and true honor can only
the existing Union" Much more of the same sort;
in the course of which General Taylor is called the
slaVeholding leader of national bandtti engAged
in piratical incursion into Mexico and then the
port continues: "The anti-savery history of Eng
land has been unusually full Of various incidents
during the past year. The formation of the Anti
slavery League, the Evangelical Alliance, the visit
Of Mr. Garrison" Ito EnglandO the extensive ag-
taton of the slavery question by his means, assisted
by Mr.. Thompson (Englishman) =" and the Ameri-
abolitonists-have made the last year" GAG re-
member) " one of extraordinary animation and IN
terest. We believe that could never boast of
the mother country than now possess. We have
received elegant gifts from a multitude of other
places, Q4ondon, Bristol, &c., and thus put in
communication with new efficient friends"
The report proceeds: THE conflict between the
abolitionsts of Scotland, and the Free Church in
the matter of blood money, has been carried on
with vigor during the past year, than ever
before"
And again The Irish contributions to the Ba-
zaar, like those have just enumerated, were OF
Increased amount in quantity, elegance and value
We accept this annual increase of the tribute PAID
to the Image of God in Chains, whose dungeon Is
this broad land grateful evidence of an increas-
ing and spreading sympathy with universal Human
ity." e. l hang on Massachusetts, cannot give
up Massachusetts," said Crane of Virginia, in the
Philadelphia Convention! What VirginianD
Thus vo hear it openly avowed in Boston, that
there is an organized conspiracy between Great
Britain and Ireland, and the abolitonists of Massa-
chusetts to overthrow this government. And now
for the moral.
In ls45, cannot find any account taken of<the
number of paupers who came into Massachusetts,
from abroad in that year, whence conclude that