Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-05-16
For the Standard.
"SAMn IN NASHVILLE.

MEssRs EDIroRs: notice in the Raleigh Star of !
a few dates back, and copied from the Baltimore
Clipper report of the municipal election in Nash.
vile, NJ c. And considering the population of our
village and the comparatively small effect tha, such
election as reported could have large and
respectable community, it indeed appears too small
q matter to notice or contradict But in judging
men we must look to what are termed small AFFAIRS
would be if the opportunity offered them, and
we must judge of parties the same way, particularly
this pernicous and anti-republican party termed
Know Nothngs
am prepared, sirs, to inform you that the report
published in the Baltimore Clipper and copied in the
Star is palpabe falsehood, if not the Know Moth
ings ore guilty of falsehood There was elected
in the town Of Nashville, DR.. VIM. F. Drake, May.
or, DR.. JohDSH, Drake, Willie R. Williams and !
Chaa r. Sears, Commissioners. First, as to DIR. VIM.
Whig, but is q Whig no longer {; that when a party
stoops to SO base and pernicious practice as
Know Nothingism he cannot, q true American
patriot sustain such party that if he is anything
he is Democrat. DIR. Joh0H Drake we all know
to be Democrat and bitterly opposed to the dark.
deed party Willie R. Williams says he does not
belong to the party, and members Of the Know
Nothing party sN upon the honor of gentlemen
that he did not belong to the party; and Charles E.
Sears, the remaining man, is Know Nothing, and
the only one elected in the town of Nashville So
sirs, we see that there was only one Know Nothing
elected out of the three Commissioners and the
Mayor unless the party have falsely asserted in
saying that Willie r. Williams did not belong to
their party. And admitting that he did they are
only equal-it made it tie. Sirs, when party,
protesting to have at heart the interest of the United
States and her citizens stoops SO low to write
and have published bare.aced falsehood and about
so trivial election as that of the municipal eec-
ton in Nashville, where the vote poled did not ex-
| ceed twenty-five, what are we to think of them?
And what would they do if they had the reins o
| government in their hands? When we find an in
divdual guilty of bare-faced lie we place more
confidence in him, and would warn Democrats to
| watch this treacherous party. They have lied in
various cases. and be assured that when the offer is
made you of fat office when they get the power,
that promise is to be ranked among their other
falsehoods. The correspondent of the Clipper says
'that it seems Sam has been among US and made
considerable acquaintance" Why did not the cor.
respondent inform the Editor that SANS acquain.
tances were becoming disgusted and forsakins his
company? Why did he not inform. him that the
Council formed at Langly's, in this County, hat
broken up and the members returned to the goot
old way?" Why did he not inform him that thcr,
has been several designations in the town Of Nash
vile? o! short lived party! think many Of yo,
in secret blush for shame when thinking of you
might doings.
This Know-Nothing party seducing many b.
instilling in them fear that the Roman Catholic
will eventually overthrow our government, when
the same time they are borrowing from Republican
Rome, one of the grand causes that overthrow tn;
Government. And think some OF them nigh
profit by reading the speech of Camus to the Con
suls in which he demands that the Plebeians ma
be admitted into the Consulshp, and that the law
prohibiting Patric;ans and Plcbeians from intermar
rying, may be repealed. He say, a." What! mus
this Empire, then be unavoidably overturned? mus
Rome of necessity sink at once, if Plebean worth,
of the Office, should be raised to the Consulship
> The Patricians 1 am persuaded, if they could
} would deprive you Of the common light 1t Gel
tainy offends them that you breathe, that yo
speak, that you have the shapes Of men. Nay, b,
to make commoner a consul, would be, say they
? q most enormous thing-Numa Pompilius, howeve'
3 without being much Roman Citizen, W;
, made King of Rome The elder Tarquin by bir
not even Italian, was nevertheless placed upn
the throne. Survius Tulius the son of captive w.
, man (nobody knows who his father was) obtaino
$ the Kingdom, as the reward of his wisdom and vi
: tue. In those days, no man in whom virtue shor
= conspicuous, rejected despised aecoun. :
: his descent And did the State prosper Il
C less for that? "Were not these strangers the vel
q best of all our Kings?" &C.
Republican Rome was overthrown by political d
visions secret political societies, and SO it would
q if Know. Nothings had their sway; but thank Go
Americans are too wise, many of them to be gull,
c into such party, and those who have been are ia
e forsakng it. NASH.
h NASHVILLE, n. G. May 1st, 1856.