Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-07-18
BEAUTIES OF KNOW NoTH1NG1sm


pared with Know Nothing complaints of prescription. They
are to prescribe from all Offices all except
their members when they have the power do SO
and they also sworn to appoint but their
members to Office Yet they make great oucry if one of
their brotherhood of darkness is removed
they make wry faces when their medcnei
to them But what better could be expected an organ
zation the foundation of which is alsehood and
| ceptionp
Again. every member of the black concern has taken an
oath that he will not reveal during % even existence
of such order or his connection with it, Yet daily
hear men announcing that there such ORDER
they are members of it, Are they forswon? In their
choice epithet they peurers9 but the ma
tonal council has this part of their secrecy
they Can the national council absolve its "pmps and
slaves and whipped curs from the oaths they have
ken Verify that savors strongly of Popery and in oppo
ing the Pope they have out, Popped him.
Again, every member of the cuver schemers is sworn
to for the nominees of the order-that obey
ders from head quarters and if he chooses to vote
ALL he is arraigned before his council and reprmanded
Like "pmp' and "save,' he is having away
his personal freedom of franchise he stand before his
masters and take tongueashng in the presence of his
confreres. And if after this awful scoldng, he refuses
again to VOTE he votes for else than the
he ordered for he expelled from the order
his transmitted all the other councils perjur
and traitor to God and his country and unwor
thy to associate with patriotic and good men Of
he is not to be patronzed in his businessmen spoken
not treated equal; but felon-as criminal.
This 1t attempt to freeman after
your freedom among midngh conspirators.
But another beauty of the dark lanterns If K. N. is
elected State Office he obey the orders of his
State council and if to national office, he is to
obey the orders of the national council If he be
Der of the Legislature for instance he must vote only for
such his State Gil nsructs him to vote for for
the following Offices O. S. Senator's Secretary of State
Treasurer, Comptroller, Superintendent Of Cnon Schools,
Judges Attorney General and Solicitors and all other of
fees provided hereafter created by law whose ap
pointmen devoves the General Assembly" fla K. N.
is elected for instance from the Democratic county of War
ren the last year. by his conceang that fact
and running Democrat) he is sworn not to vote
his constituents desire but for Geo. E. Badger John
A. Gmer j. NJ Morehead. any that he is ordered
vote for by his State council Forty members stitue
quorum of this body and hence if the Legislature should
be composed of majority of K Ms, twenty-one Ia
majority of the counc may dictate to the people of the
State who shall be their State officers and their Senator's
and even what laws they shall live under!!!
Suppose K. n. is elected President of the United
States. Heis but tool in the hands of the national
Gil and the people of the Union under the government
ola olgarchyan olgarchy that they would rebel against
and whose yoke they would throw off if the Union perish
ed in the The President takes oath support the
Constitution of the United States If he be K n he has
formerly taken oath support the Constitution of the
national council and that Constitution says: the
tona counc shall have the to decide ALL matters
pertaining to National Politics. Suppose would most
likely be the this national council should decide that
Inc 1tVe slave law shod not De enlorced OF mat sla-
very should not be extended into any Territory that
State should be admitted into the Union whose Con-
sution recognized slavery; suppose further that Mr..
Rayner President Ia very indispensable by the
way y what he do? Which oath would he bre ak?
He could keep both. He must "peure himself eth
his national council the people of the Union.
One beauty of the snk-hole potico-regio clan.
Only by special dspensation man who has Catholic
wife become member of the betweenwosuns fraternity,
and then he is not eligible Office. We should
think of such would feel COMMUNICATED to
reflect that her husband had joined order in which she
rendered him incapable of enjoying all the rights and prv
eges of other And should think that the man
himself either that he degraded his wife, that
she degraded hinl-or both.
These are few of the beauties of Know Nothingism
There others to which shall probably allude
hereafter and which will appear reading the epos
the outside of this paper the authenticity of which is
doubted and denied by any Know Nothing in
whom spark of truth exists