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

heat, come up to the polls So unanimously in sup
port of our rights, and are ready, if need be- to
march in the ranks and shoulder the musket for the
stakeholder? How is it, sir, that the Mountain Dis
trict of your State is the most forward and deter
mined in the maintenance of Southern rights where
there less slaves than in any portion OF North
Carolina? Remember, Sir, there is yet in man a
heart that moves gladly sternly at right wrong
"a love for something more than for what may be
guaged weighed. The spirit of '76-that puts
selfinterest under foot and takes up arms against
all odds in defence of principle. tell you, as one
Shareholder that in my estimation one drop of the
blood of a true and tried of the Republic like
General Taylor, is worth more in public confidence
than your 100 slaves thrice told-you and your Sc
cret oaths to preserve the Union, and your Phari-
saical professions of belief in Almighty God in the
bargain.
What new developments, Mr.. Rayner-what new
manifesto of the Pope is there since 1885, when
you advocated the of the Romanst, or since
1852, when you voted for Gen. Scott who had put
it upon record, Il shall consent to State or
party religion. Religion is too sacred for either.
1t should be kept always between an individual and
God" What new danger, ask, is there that should
have worked so miraculous change in your Sentl-
ments? have heard, sir, that you read to your
audience the maledction found in Tristan Shandy,
argument, of course but can hardly credit
t-for the public were better acquainted with that
book in 1885 than If this string of curses writ
ten by Sterne has helped to make you Know
Nothing in '55, then in defence of your political
honesty you must plead ignorance of it in '35,
when you received from the great and good
Judge CASTOR public enconium for the eloquence
with which you advocated the cause of the Roman
Catholic If sir you could have ignored for so long
time document so important in making up an
opinion religious tolerance, and well known to
the reading world, ought it not to suggest to you
that there are things written and unknown which
may yet come to light and convince you that you
now in error and ought not this again to sug-
gest to you moderation, courtesy and good breeding
in your controversies with your political opponents?
1t seems to me, sir, that unless you We're fatally
bent on the nomination for the Vice Presidency, or
blinded by vanity, you would have doubted and hes
itated as to the motives which influenced you
when no other Southern man could be found in your
Philadelphia Convention to denounce the Nebraska
bill to .e Colby, Wilson & Co., that it was man
ly and honest IN them to refuse to abide by 1t and
especially when not one vote, even from your own
State, could be obtained for the platform you offered
'''Tis fowl bird that dirties it's nest, " and
you and those with you who pronounce so glibly
the corruption of the two old parties with which
you acted to the time of your conversion to Know
Nothingism, but proclaim your own shame. Reid,
Shepard Rayner- what political history is likely
be written of the trio! They acted for the best
portion of their lives with party they declare to be
corrupt; then sought in midnight and by illegal
oaths-by prejudice and religious anmostes, and
by dishonest coalitions-to win the position they
coveted. Failing here, they pursued the same end
elf-elevation-under many names and Devices I'M
til distrusted by all, they died the Threshold of
some new organization paraphrasingsthe old verse
"Pty the sorrows of poor old man
Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door,
Yours, &C.,
FARMER.