Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-01-31

A CAPITAL HIT. John Rowan Esq, of Kentucky,
having been called upon from several quarters to
become Democratic candidate for Governor ofthat
State, declined to assume the position for reasons
alleged in letter to the Louisville Times lie says
am unwilling to peril the fair prospects Of the
party by becoming their standard-bearer in the next
contest for the simple reason that my wife is CATH
ozic / see that highly respectable Wing paper
e. The Commonwealth " estimates the number OF
Know-Nothngs in Kentucky at fifty thousand !;
sand; and as have been informed by good author
ity, that no man who has Catholic wife can be
member of that society, it is fair to presume that they
would not vote for man so circumstanced. IT TINS
be true, fifty thousand citizens of Kentucky would
say to me, what though you are native of Ken
lucky and your ancestors were among the pioneers
of this fair land what though your grand-fathcrs,
Lyte and Rowan, lost the earnings of their lives
the first by the torch of the India the last by the
moneys of the Continental Congress-what though
they did toll on, fighting the Indian and filling the
forest and under all these difficulties educate por
ton of their families, and that portion not unknown
undistnguished in the histories Of Ohio, kentuc
ky, and the nation; and what though you may he
qualified to discharge the high duties of the office you
aspire to we fifty thousand citizens of Kentucky,
living happily around own hcarthStoTcS
for US by the daring ofsuch you sprung from,
determined that you shall not be Governor OF
Kentucky, Mr.. Rowan, because your wife, eXercis-
ing the privilege guaranteed by the constitution of
the United States, and the constitution of every
State in the Confcderacy, to worship God she
peases, is Catholic. 1t matters not to that the
Lord Baltimore and established the good old colo
ny of Maryland, 60 this hour the home of refine
ment and hosptahty,) the FIRST to invite the Relg-
ionists Of ChI>teirin.n to come and worship God
according to the dictates of their consciences."
greatly hopcth editor the Commonwealth has over
estimated the number of Know- Nothngs in State.
cannot believe that the doctrines ascribed to them
can ever, to a:iy extent, be embraced by Kentuck-
ans They at with the noble and chivaI-
rous character of our people. They ewont to
"Shun question, and to mask"
They meet their adversares personal or political
to face, and whether successful defeated there is
neither exultaton complaint. With the new
party all is mystery. The little we know of their
doctrines, is forced from them by some judicial tr-
bunal, or from an occasional ausion to them the
floor of Congress. They wage war in the dark, and
speak only at the ballot box. Who ever heard a
Wing or Democrat deny his connection with either
of those great parties? Who ever heard a Know
Nothing acknowledge his party He either declines
answering, or promptly denies that he is member
of that order, although he may ten minutes since
have left the hall where he and his associates
devising ways and means to carry on this unmanly
mode of warfare. 1t seems to me that it does not
require Bible catechism teach US that this is all
wrong.
The organization of this party Gf 1 am not msta-
ken as to its purpose) may for time subscrve the
interests of demagogues who have neither the nerve
or intellect to win position in open and manly
conflict of mind with mind but it will soon pass
away and the day is not distant when those who
may have been deluded into the Order will blush
remember it. l trust that entertain proper res
pect for all religious denominations, although be-
long to no church, and God forbid that ever may
belong to wanting in charity to advocate
prescription for opinion sake
The New Hampshire papers state that the democ-
racy of that State have a new element to contend
against. negro preacher has taken the stnmp
against the democrats and in favor of knownothing-