Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-03-07
THE SOUTHERN WEEKLY POST.

:; this City, bv the Principal of the Institution for
,bs Deaf and Dumb and Blind, was establied as
neutral family paper; but it has recently, under the
,,rb of" independence" thrown off its neutrality
md entered the lists as Know Nothing organ. The
tendency of some of its Editorials of late-whatever
,bar obiect-has been to sustain the Wing cause as
couuled with that Of Know Nothingism and some
Of these articles, though now and then covert in
their illusions are calculated, wherever they obtain
currency and belief, to work gross injustice to the
Democratic party.
In our paper of the 7th Of February, we copied
from the Washington Union sundry questions in re-
aion to the Catholic Church, and in doing so we
said: ave much opposed any reasonable
man in this country can be- to the Catholic religion
we are Protestant, and expect thus to live and die;
but better Catholicism than intidelity-better that
than war between races and religions in this free
land" The Post of the 10th February copied the
questions referred to, and offered replies to them;
bat was careful to suppress, so far as it could-to
keep out of its columns the remarks of the Standard
abre given, which accompanied the questions
The object of these questions was to show, mat
ter of simple justice to an assailed and prosecuted
Church. that neither the Catholic Church. nor
Catholic organizations, priests or laymcn that
Caurch have at any time attacked the Constitution
Of the United States the institution of slavery
whereas of the Protestant Churches have-aU
the signers Of the famous rather infamous re,
mOnsrunee of the Clergy of the free States against
the Nebraska bill, being Protestants The Post
alds
"Ws have seen for some time disposition in
certain quarters to make the impression the south
ern people that the Catholic Church is more friendly
70 our section the Union than the Protestant Chur-
ches. The questions contained in the foregoing ex-
tract manifest an nsid;ous and jesuitical design to
effect the object. If they mean anything in
the world, they this, that the decline of Pro-
H>antism and the increase of Catholicism in the
South, would conducc to the preservation of onr
institutions. In the name Of the Protestant Churches
Ofhe South, repel the insulting insinuation. We
deny the inference attempted to be established by
these professors of Protestanism untavorable to
the Protestant cause"
Now all this is very we'll in its way, but it has
s?plcation to the Standard. We do nothing - in
aliousy we have no '.jesuitica designs" We
have never been sworn, under the of darkness
and between two days, to prescribe, and persecute,
and hunt down men because they happened first to
SC. the light in Ireland in France or because in
the exercise of right guaranteed to them by the
Constitutions of the United States and of North
carolina, they endeavor to worship God according
the dictates of their own conscirnces We repeat,
We are neither the advocate nor the apolog;st of the
Romsh Church. but the facts are as stated that that
Church is sounder tile question of slarery than a
mej~dy Of the Churches cf the free States Of this
Atpudl'c. We have nothing to do with motives
We refer 10 facts which cannot be successfully de-
ned This being the case, is it good policy for the
people OF the South to unite with the abolition Cler
smen and the abolition Churches in the free States
just referred to, in a crusade of persecution and
aouse against the Catholic Church? We may be
opposed, as we should be, to the spread of Catho-
"csm-we may resort to all just and Constitutional
means to prevent that spread, and to foster and ad
vance the Protestant faith and the Protestant institu-
"O'S OF the Southern States; but let not, in do
"s nis perpetrate the gross injustice of revng a
onurch which has never SO far as the record speaks
v'ieF assaed the Constitution of the country or
VII institution Of slavery but which, on the contra
~ II VIC may judge by the writings and sermons OF
oShops and priests, holds slavery to be a God
s'ao.lShed and Bible sanctioned institution.
'ne same number of the Post from which we arc
44ouns, makes the following "ins lous and Jesuit
y" h'hg at the Standard-for we are constrained to
'e"eSe that, under the circumstances, and taken in
S'"'ect'on with the other article, the insinuation
"aS Intended for this paper:
| ; ihere are, we KNOW some few at work, endeavor
49, chahge the sentiments of an immense majority
do. W people ofthis State in regard 10 the pernicous
,.seS 'uheS imported among US from Europe. They
on. earnestly contending that there is no danger t
;,n nstut'ons from foreign socialism and agrurian
Dn the one hand, or from foreign priestc,nft ane
wat'"a on the other. But, our word for it, th
Mill U'' 10 Joreignize and Romanize North Carolina
,nasp ,s pve as hard task as the stone of Sisyphus
amtn must reco in terrible. unpoputarity upon it
nna crS Undertake to convince the Protestant DO
nsa uOh or OF North Carolina that French and German
inan and Italian and Irish Romanis,n, are EN-
wb.. favorable to free institutions What folly
Of ". as aosurdity {! What ignorance the characte
Our people appears in such presumption !"
sI .'ne foregoing was intended for this paper, o
na.. Tue Democratic party Of this State, or for an,
r0n 0.r OF that party, we pronounce it false in it
r. pp"ssaon .ion and false in fact We have heard-w
.s q no one in this State who is endeavoring t
,' ''ss@'se and Romaaise North Carolina We cal
nv H''ne Post to single out and name these peopl
arc thus at work. Who are theyr
"a Pods aPpsrs u u yssszR with ths star d Il