Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-05-05

that Sam" fell into the fourth degree on that
casion-that is, into cellar, and could not come.
We admit, however, that "Sam" has roamed with
old Romulus, ripped with old Euripides, canted with
old Cantharides, and socked with old Socrates His
achievements in the cause of Professionalism are
confessedly of the first water We learn-and we
speak it with all respect and reverence-that the
next Fourth of July has been fixed upon as the
commencement of the millennium; an event thou
sand years away but for "Sam." Then shall all
love one another with real Protestant I" American"
ardor-there will be more sin, selfshness,
nor scufhing for ofice,-no more Catholics for
eigners; but every native shall have native fig
tree and a native Catawba native Scuppernong
grapevine to shelter him, and &C SAM will proclaim
himself in his highest and last degree the moral
upbuilder and Regeneration of mankind. This will
be spectacle to make every Protestant heart glad.
Mr.. Miller, know, will feel better, for his devotion
to the Protestant religion knows no bounds When
that day comes both he and Mr.. Rayner, and Mr..
Ned Buntlen, and Mr.. Senator Wilson, and that
martyr Mr. Hiss, of the Massachusetts, Legislature,
can smile complacently upon the scene and say,
/" it is true were about, and lifted up voices
and wept in the of Professionalism, and uttered
strong prayers and cries for it's success-but 'Sarn
did tt"
We learn from the Herald that Mr.. Miller "ac-
knowledged himself Know Nothing, as they are
called, a member of the American Order had taken
all the degrees in the Order, and fully cogni-
zant of all its aims and designs and, said he, if
any asserts that the Order has any abolition
tendencies, / tell him in his teeth he LIES" Mr..
Miller admits then, that he has sworn upon the cross
of the Son of God-and that too in secret, when no
human eye but that of his coconspirators was upon
him-to prescribe from Office, and to keep out OF
office, adopted citizens and persons not Protestants
who worship God according to the dictates OF their
own conscences; and to obey the majority of his
Order, Gin all things political or Social" with GER
tain reservations and this in the face of the Const
tuition of his State to say nothing of the federal
Constitution under which the adopted citizen has
never been heretofore vexed prosecuted, and
which to Catholics full rights, civil and
political, as the Protestant claimi If we I'M
derstand his position correctly, he would not change
the Constitution in this respect but he aooud prac.
tcally make cold at the polls the rights it to
Catholics. What mockery oftruth and justice!
Mr. Miller says that man "lies" who charges that
the Know Nothing Order "has any abolition tenden
ces" Fortunately for the cause of TRUTH it is not
necessary to refer to the Tendencies of the Order
the results, the fruits show for themselves These
fruits are beyond all question, those of aboitionsm
OF the ranheSC ana InOSL Alarming cudTaCIeT we
see them in the election of Pollock Governor of
Pennsylvania-in the election of Gardiner as Cover
nor of Massachusetts-in the election of Morrill, as
Governor of Maine-in the election of Button as
Governor of Connectcut-in the election of Metcalf
as Governor of New Hampshire-in the election of
Wilson to the United States Senate-in the course of
the Massachusetts, Legislature towards Judge Lo-
ring, in voting to deprive him of his Judgeship be-
he aided in enforoiDp the f1nitiVe slave
in the passage of antslavery and Unconstitutional
Resolutions by the Legislatures of Maine, Massachu
sets and New York-in the election of large
number of members of the next Congress, who
governed by abolition sentiments and who will take
their seats, and constitute majority of the House,
determined to repeal the fugitive-save law reestab
lish the Missouri restriction, and abolish slavery in
the District of Columbia. "The tree is known by its
fruits" Let the people look and judge for them.
selves. Mr.. Miller's harsh language will pass for
nothing the facts seen and known of all men, are
against him.
We consider it our duty to tell our Democratic
friends in Virginia what sort of politician Mr. Mil
Ter is He went to that State voluntarily to address
the people, and to that extent, to take part in the
existing campaign and he cannot complain of US
for furnishing Virginia friends accurate informa
ton to his real political sentiments and character
Mr.. Miller first took part in politics in 1885 or 1886.
He was White man-next Harrison Whg-then
a Henry Clay Whig-then "no-party Taylor
man-next Fillmore Wing, and supposed to be
against Scott-then Scott Wing, and with the Gen
eral most emphatcally -for he supported him vgor
ously and we never heard that he disapproved of
any of his principles sentiments-in his offers of
citizenship to foreigners who should serve year
in the army navy, well as in his earnest solicit
tations for the rich Irish brogue and sweet Ger
man accent" If he talks no partyism it is mere
ly for effect, and is thing with him. No man
in this State firmly inveterately opposed
than he is to Democratic men and Democratic meas
ures and no man has labored more earnestly
more persistently to put them down. If in power,
and he fair oppoI tunity for establishing such
measures he would vote for National Bank, for
high protective tariff and for dividing the public
lands their proceeds among the States thus
making them dependent on the federal centre and
his speech at Norfolk proves that in political affairs
he would re-enact the alien law of Adams, and in
religious concerns he would put back these States
to the condition of Massachusetts, and Connecticut
in the days of blue-laws and witch burning. He is
a federalst, and has sympathies with the Demo-
cratic party. We know him well, and this is
opinion of his political character He is a man of
ability; and when he speaks, on this occasion, on
the soil of another State, and makes strong impress
sion on his audience, feel proud as North Caro-