Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-06-02
WHAT THE HERALD THINKS OF 1T.

The New York Herald, referring to the great Dem
ocratc victory in Virginia. says:
The seventy-two thousand enrolled members of
the Virginia lodges, which, in conjunction with the
ourside wings and democrats, were to have carried
the State by from fifteen to twenty thousand major
ity, have vanished into the air. If instead of this
promised triumph, they defeated, the prestige of
the invisible invincibles" is broken-they
duced to their starting point-their present organi-
cation does not answer its purposes-they stand
a confused agglometation of dscordant factions
for in failing before their Sebastopo they have lost
the Crimea.
Why is this? How happens it that the grand ex-
pectaions of the Know Nothings in the Old Do.
mnion have been SO extensively dished? 1t is easy
to explain. The numerous and suicidal amalgamatons
of the Know Nothings of the North with the aboli-
tionsts and free soilers especially as developed in
the disgusting and reasonable proceedings of the
late, "nigger worshpping" Legislature of Massachu-
setts have done this business in Virginia AS
have repeatedly urged upon this new party, it is
abundantly proved, that something more than
a of determination against the Roman Catholics,
and the prescription of foreigners by birth, and
something better, open, and more definite than
this mysterious "thrd degree upon the slavery
question, is required for the building up in this
country of great and powerful national party. 1t
is manifest that although Know Nothing
coalition with free sellers may re-clect Seward to
the Senate from New York. carry the States of Penn
sylvania, and Ohio, and Michigan, and Indiana, and
even New Hampshire, and although with the adop.
ton of the disunion indel and niger loving bonn
it may secure a clean sweep to the brotherhood in
Massachusetts, from stem to stern, yet it is clearly
manifest that such triumphs are but waste of
munition, and end in nothing but disappont-
ment to all concerned
The Virginia Democracy stood alone and the
decisive battle whether the party should live die,
rested upon the shoulders of Henry A. WISE There
defectons in the rank and fe-the wings of
the State hailed the invasion of the Know Nothings
a sure harbinger of victory; the whig party
cheerfuly merged itself in the mysterious order
they sold themselves for mess of pottage which it
seems they have lost-they staked ythng upon
single card but they counted without their host.
Mr.. Wise fought the fight with unexampled energy
endurance, and Skill From his first speech to his
sixty-fifth, he practsed the Napoleonic offensive
system of operations, and thus kept his adversaries
upon the defensive from the first to last.
He was appointed to make battle with new enc
my, and he fell upon him at once, pell-mel, and
kept at him to the end of the chapter If there be
a man in Virginia who not informed by election
day of all the abolition associations and acts and all
the nunnery doings of the Know Nothings of the
North from the reelection of Seward to the Joseph
Hiss case and the Massachusetts notification law,
then it was because he failed to seize the opportuni
ty in not attending some of the sixty five stump
speeches of Mr.. Wise.
antly carried the State) elevates the champion of
AccOmac head and shoulders above any of the
availables of the democracy for the succession.
Mr.. Wise, from the very brink of destruction has
saved the day, like Braggs battery at Buena Vista