Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-06-16
MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC CLUB. !.


The Club was called to order by the chairman,
Mr.. Bledsoe.
Mr. @. Busbce then rose, and made few re-
marks in his haPpest manner, and in behalf of the
Committee, made the following report; which
unanimously adopted:
I" Your Committee, to whom was referred the
subject of organizing in this City and County more
complete and permanent opposition to the secret
cety known, as the Know Nothing party, beg leave
to report:
In the opinion of your Committee frequent and
public discussion, is the best and most efficient
means of diffusing knowledge and light upon, and
of properly explaining those subjects which, at the
time agitate public attentions and by such frequent
discussion before the people, are confident that
the principles believe to be absolutely essential
to the safety of the South and to the Union will be
adopted their platform by large majority of the
frcemen, not only Of North Carolina, but of every
Southern state and that thereby we shall obtain in
the approaching election, signal and complete tr
umph over the irresponsible and oath bound secret
order of Know Nothingsm; which ism, originating
as it did for local purpose in the most corrupt city
in the Union, and adopted by designing politicians
of the North for the purpose of withdrawing the
tention of Southern men from the only real and inn
portant issue now before the country-the slavery
agitation-and used by the North for the purpose
OF arraylng Southern men against each other upon
issues OF little Importance in the administration of
the general Government we believe to be full of
danger to the South and to the Union of the States
Dangerous, on account Of its secrecy, its religious
prescription and its unconsutionality and in open
unnatural utilization, the extent of which the
bers ofthe order in midst dare not avow, with
such men Wilson and Hale and other abolition
sts whose political existence depends upon their IA
natical opposition to Southern institutions.
1t becomes, then, necessary for all good and true
men, who are opposed to religious bgotry and intol-
erance, who love the South and who desire to pro-
tect Southern interests and the rights of the States
guaranteed by the Constitution, from this secret
and dangerous assault upon their liberties and rights,
to join together in the open avowed and concerted
opposition to ORDER made up, it is, in the
Northern States, by fusng all the detestabe isms,
hostile to the Union and to the South, and in the
South, composed of disappointed politicians and men
whom the people never honored with their conf
dence, and whose ambition and hatred to Democra-
tic principles would lead them to blindy sacrifice
the rights and interests of their constituents.
For the purpose of more fully and freely discus
sing the issues made in the present canvass before
the people, and of concerted opposition to
Know Nothingsm here and to its confederates
North, the Committee fully in the Importance
of establishing Club composed of the true and tried
Democrats of this City and County, together with all
patriotic freemen who opposed to the suspicious
midnight concern, and who refuse to swear their
freedom of suffrage away; and the more fully to
carry out the designs of such orgazation, the
Committee recommend the follwing officers, to-wit: