Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-04-18

THE WING PARTY.

that once mighty party! Ay. they could tell, but
,cM they?
Federalism, under its proper name, was beat down
by jefferson and his followers. Then it stole the
almost haowed name of Wing, and wore it until it
was rendered almost as odious as it was once dear.
Now. where is it Under the foolish name of
Know Nothingsm-a name that is reproach and
astirma to an American citizen-it skulks in dark
ness and gloom, and concocts its schemes with
closed Doors in the still hours of night 1t has
called to its aid, and banded itself with all the
vile isms that have, of late years, been Matched
from the foul brains of designing demagogues, the
distorted minds of crazy FOOLS and the hearts, reek
inc with corruption, of vile and despicable traitors
If it is permitted the shades of the departed to
look from their spirit-homes upon the affairs of
earth, how must the souls of Clay and Webster
shrink with loathing to see the degeneracv of their
former followers and how must they yearn once
more to lift their warning voices in behalf of lib
erty!
In 1852 there were no such friends to foreign
ers as Gen. Scott and his adherents. 1.-THE rich
Irish brogue and "the sweet German accent"
were part of the heavy artillery of Whiggery that
tluDQ6TeU dSdlLSG IL0 DeIlOSIdGS parry. 4NO",
that same party is advocating the Acknowledgement
of both the brogue and the "accent," and is
not even willing that they shall worship Almighty
God according to their own belief-a right guaran-
tied to them by our constitution, which guarantee
has brought thousands of them to our shores.
How beautiful is consistency, but alas these Fed
eral Wing Know-Nothngs knoa0 nothing of its
charms What Was healthfui and nourishing to
them in 1852, is poisonous and baneful in 1855;
and what was then meat and drink, is gall
and bitterness. What has changed? Not prin-
cples for they eternal but men, for they could
not get office and power under the strains they
sang in 1852 and they have altered the tune, con-
scous they have nothing to lose even if they gain
nothing. Protesting to have exercised the "seven
devils with which they mow say they were the"
possessed, they have taken to themselves " seven
others more uncean, and verify their last condi-
ton is worse than their first.
Look at Kentucky, Tennessee and other Wing
States. The Wing party is disbanded, and Know
Nothingism has taken its place. Look at Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and other
Northern States. The Democratic party there has
nearly held its own, but Whiggery, Aboltionism,
Freesoilism and various other isms have combined
have made common under the banner of
Know-Nothingism, and swept like destroying
whirlwind into power. Look at the once Wing
press of North Carolina. But a few months ago
it was preaching the beauties of Whiggery now
it is Know Nothingized, and swearing Justify that
"the old parties were corrupt" Of course they
know best concerning their own party, and we
must take their admission concerning it as fact;
and at the time we reject their evidence
against the Democratic party, for they not so
well acquainted with it, were prejudiced against it,
and dragged it in with the charges against their
own r'rtJ on the principle that 'misery loves
company"
How long since the Register and Star of this
City were dealing out Wing homiies to their rea-
ders, and the Post was neutral? Now their ed-
tors-not one of whom, We almost venture to as
sert, is three generations removed from foreign an
cestry-have all at once discovered that foreigners
are dangerous to our liberties and that religion
protested by some Of them is likely to overthrow
our institutions They have certainly been smitten
with terrible Popephobia, and trembe in their
shoes at the fearful power of poor old man, thou
sands of miles off, who rules the ruins of ancient
Rome, now not even a shadow of what it once
was This has startled them from their dreams of
Whiggery and neutrality, and while the Register
and Star have declared themselves so stepped in
ignorance as to Know Nothing, the Post has vail
antly buckled on its armor and declared its indie
pendence J" and all three are constantly thunder
ing Bulls from their miniature vaticans against the
Pope and against the Catholic religion. The Popes
toe haunts them in their dreams and they lampoon
it with paragraphs; the believing of his Bulls dis
turbs their slumbers, and with fear and trembling
they try to drown the noise with frightfl cries for
help and warnings of danger; his tiara broods
about their sanctums as hideous spectre, and they
endeavor to impae itupon theirpen his sceptreis
welded before their distorted Visions and in their
attempts to break it, of paper, floods of ink,
and quantity of truth are sacrificed. Under the
plea of warning against Jesuitism, they themselves
become Jesuitical and Jacobinical.
We trust that the Register Star and Post edi-
tors will try the virtues of the mad stone" tt
said to be certain cure for hydrophobia and per-
haps it might be eficacious in the case of Pope
phobia also
STARVATION AMONG ENGLISH TRooPs-The
revelations of the Roebuck committee of the Brit
lSh Parliament inouirino into tho cond,5ok IF tho