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

their friends know they belong to it. and are taking
off. He says the truth is it is trap of deception,
and mo one can stay an the party who IS Repu6-
lican.
1t is the duty of every true Democrat to expose
the principles of the Know Nothing party, and show
to the world that they rest on foundation as base
less as the fabric of vision. The Democratic par
ty and Democratic principles have caused the flag
of liberty to triumphtanty over this Republic
for seventy-nine years, and may she continue to
prosper and flourish until the nations of the world
shall behold her dazzling splendor with admiration
and establishment. Then will she have arrived at
the perfection of greatness, and surpassed the
pectations of the most sanguine.
Very respectfully,
Lousburg, July H. EGO.
For the Standard.
MEssRs. EDITORS wishing to let the people in
this (the sixth) Congressional District know how
their candidates getting respectfully ask the
use Of your columns for the purpose of giving the
substance of discussion which took place at Cock
erham's. in Surry county, the 29th of June, be-
tween Mr.. A. NJ Scales, Democrat and Col. Puryear,
Know Nothing Wing.
Col. Puryear spoke first. He opened the discus
sion by announcing himself Wing and the candi-
date of the Wing party. He then descanted in his
usual style of demagogery about the distribution of
the proceeds of sale division of the public lands
lauding Benefits land bill as eminently just and
equitable. He failed to show the people that he had
made such efforts to obtain their share as he had
promised them he would make. He had failed to
introduce advocate bill giving them the wealth
he had promised. He had failed to ask for the part
he claimed and he is again trying to gull the people
with his false promises. After talking while about
the public lands he came to the question of tariff,
and his old acquaintances astonished to find
that his mind had undergone such thorough change,
for he had abandoned his old song about the protec
ton of American manufactures, and the necessity
of direct taxation which would ensue if the Demo-
cratic policy adopted, and actually out for
modification of the present tariff, that it might
raise no more revenue than enough to supply the
wants of the government economically administer
ed The cogent reason for this change is that the
Col has found out that high tariff is not popular
in this County as he used to think it when he
told the people that if the Democratic policy was
pursued the Sheriff would be coming round to drag
the specie out of them to pay the expenses of the
general government.
The main topics of his speech were Know Moth
ings and his Nebraska vote. 1t may be that was
prejudced, but really thought l never saw man
adroitly try to avoid the points of the charge
against him by decaiming about sanctity of compro
misses and the dangers of agitation. His effort at
exculpation from the condemnation of his constt-
uents considered as msy affair." He said the South
gained nothing by it. that the principle was msera-
BE abstraction. He said the Wilmot proviso was
infamous and degrading to the South, and in the
speech he said that the compromise of '2O'es-
tablished restriction which amounted to the same
thing. And vet he voted with abolitionsts DENYING
that the compromise of 1850 had established the |
great principle of non-intervention by Congress in
the matter either to establish exclude slavery-to
RETAIN to re-estabsh restriction upon the rights of
the South which he himself declared to be infamous
and degrading.
He then took up the Know Nothing platform and
upon and endorsed every word of it. He |
detained long and loudly against foreigners and |
Roman Catholics. Why, if we had believed him !
we would have expected every moment to see the
Pope heading host innumerable coming to en-
slave or butcher US. Processing to be Whig-the |
candidate of what professed to be Wing Conven-
tion-he said he would vote for Democrat who is
a Know Nothing (can such thing be found p in
Der of the midnight concave of the dark-lantern
der. Yet he denies, even since the Convention in
removed the prohibition TO disclose it,
that he is member. They sworn not to &C
knowledge themselves members; and perhaps the
Convention could not absolve him from his oath of
secrecy if he has taken it.
The truth is the Col. wants to go up on both sides
IF the branch He wants to be Wing with the in
dependent Wings who will not soop to this misera-
Die humbug, and when with Know Nothings you
,an find stronger advocate in the whole list of
,lace hunters and deluded men who fill the conclave
If this oath bound order, than Col. Richard G. Pur
year.
After Col. Puryear concluded, Mr.. Scales arose.
lie was stranger to most of US. Intellectual and
handsome in appearance, his first words seemed to
make favorable impression. He announced him
elf as the candidate Of the Democratic party, and
indicated the policy of the Democratic party in re-
ard to the public lands, and showed Col Puryears
Inconsistent changes upon the tariff in very glaring
erms to people who remembered what the Col
ad told them long ago that same subject. He |
hen took up his opponents course in Congress
bowed how he had stood side by side with the abo-
tonists of the North, denying to the South her
Ist rights which had been secured to her by the
ompromise of 1850. He showed his determined
ppostion to the principle that the people should
ue-he showed how he had voted to retain pro.
ibition which he himself in his circular says was
egrading to his constituents
Mr.. Scales then proceeded to take up the Know
lettings. He exposed the whole concern-he read
ler oaths, their obligations, and instruction. He
al d the Know Nothings at Mount Airy, in this
ounty-one of them at least-had publicly acknowl-
dyed that the oaths he had read the very oaths
lken by the members of that order. He alluded in
cry happy strain to the services foreigners had rend
red our country; and while he speaking of La t
ayette l saw venerable old man of revolutionary
mes wiping the tears from his eyes. He opposed s
importation of foreign paupers and criminals but
e willing to furnish home and protection to
lie honest and industrious foreigners who sought to
ecome citizens of our republic. He said the plan
the Know Nothings would admit the worthless
I'D only exclude those who come to enjoy our free
and who would be most likely to make
bod citizens He then said he had never, like his
oponent, voted for Catholic--that he had been |
Used by Protestant parents and had imbibed pre- +
dice against the Catholics but he unwilling to
e any sect prescribed for opinions sake. He was !
nwilng to the ball of persecution start
mo man could tell where it would stop He Il
len made the most thrilling appeal in favor of LID, t.
ty of conscienc and against intolerance have ever
lard. The whole crowd caught his spirit. The
'ople felt his fervor-they the danger. That
oNll H. ,lo,