Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-07-04
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RALEIGH. SATURDAY. JUNE so. 1855
Mr.. RAYNER AND HIS NORTHERN ALLIES.
The last Raleigh Register contains what purports
TO be the substance OF the speech delivered by Mr.
Rayner a few evenings since in Washington City;
and finding the report in the Register, taken from
some Washington paper, we consider 1t as au-
thentic as such reports usually are, and regard
Mr.. Rayner as bound by it to the people OF North
Carolina. Among ether things Mr.. Rayner said:
Coming as do from our labors at Philadelphia
It is right that should allude to the Transact, of
the late National Council. The enemy had crcu
lated throughout the land the story that division
and distraction had entered into thu American tam-
ly at Philadelphia. can sag acih pride and joy
that this is not the There no division on
the great American principles-the distinguished
features O: the order.
On that distracting question which has entered
into and divided all political parties, and many
churches of the land, there difference of opin
ion. We did not attempt to patch up theory that
should read two ways and be fitted to each sec ton;
but looking common cause, to the protection
OF American Protestants were united as one
man. On slavery alone there difference The
members from the North, acho disapprored, protest.
ed, h"nestly and mantully, but did not secede And
now instead of coming into the field with one regi-
ment, the election shall present taoo is-
6ryades hat aoiU soeep ererything before US.
[Cneers. Let not the powers here in Washington
and the pimps of the Roman hierarchy cackle over
division of sentiment on this question. There
is hope for them in it. On the great question of
oll-no North no South. All over the North our
camp fires lighted every hilltop So also do
they send back their greeting from the sunny
South"
Here it is boldly asserted that, Notwithstanding
the difference of opinion slavery between South
and Northern Know Nothings they are still
united as party; that the members from the North
protested honestly and manfully" against the ma
jorty platform, "but did not seceae"; and that the
calculation, by Southern man and STAKEHOLDER,
is that in the campaign of 1856 the ABOLITION forces
under the lead of Ford, Wilson, Colby and Gardner,
will form of the - immense briga!es destined,
in atliation Nth Southern Knoao .Vothings, to
sweep the country. There it is fellow-citizens, in
terms plain that he who may read.
Mr. Rayner dec|ares-as does also the Ameri.
can Organ that the Know Nothing party is still
NATIONAL still unit-that the twelve abolition States
"did not secede" but only protested against the
platform adopted Let US, then, as they insist upon
this state of things take it for granted and look to
results. Massachusetts, under Know Nothing inhu-
ence has nullified the fugtive-save law, and the
authorities of the federal government at defiance /;
Mr. Wilson and Mr.. Sumner, her two Senators, stand
Pledged to labor for the repeal of that law, and to
abolish slavery in the District Of Columbia and in the
Territories; in several of the Northern States Know
Nothing Senators have been elected who are as hos
tile Mr.. Wilson is the rights of the South, and,
taking all the free States together in the late elec
tons some fifty sixty Know Nothing members of
the House have been returned, who will assuredly
vote with Wilson and Seward of the Senate for the
most ultra freesoil propositions; in Maine, in New
York, and indeed throughout the free States Res
olutons have been adopted, either by Know Moth.
Ing Legislatures State Councils, the tendencies OF
which are, if carried out, to destroy the institution OF
Slavery or to force dissolution of the Union and in
New Hampshire, the Old Democratic party, standing
upon the Baltimore platform and advocating the Ne
braska Kansas measure, have been defeated, and as
the result of it, John P Hale vile aboonist has
been elected to the United States Senate and man
elected Governor Mr.. Metcaf-who in his inaugu
raj address denounces the repeal of the Missouri
line as an outrage not to be submitted to by tn,
North, and, among other things insults the Who'll,
Southern people by the charge that they are con
tenplating the revival of the African slave e-trade
l" no instance has q national man been elected tt
AA'"OW
oroer, in that region, is compound of all isms thu
leading features of which are hatred of the South
and determination constantly expressed, to extr
pate slavery by abolishing it in the District of Co
'umba by abolishing it in the Territories SO as t.
prevent its spread, and by repeating the fugitive
slaVe law, thus denying to Southern masters tn
r'ght of capture and reclamation soemnly guaran
.eeo in the federal Constitution. This, in brief il
tne condition and these are the principles and object
y. the great body of Northern Know Nothings; ant
Mr. Raynes not only admits but declares i" will
PRIDE and joy that they are his allies-that he il
a'''fg with them against the Administration ant
against Democracy-that he counts upon them al
@ One OF his Immense brigades " in the contest o
1000! 1t is also stated in the papers that Mr. Rayn
" " uecared, in the Convention at Philadelphia. tha
'Ns repeal OF law Of Congress putting the South