Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-04-04
Hon HENARY \. WISE,
Near Onancock, Accomac Co, Va

MORE PRooF-A friend sends us copy of the
Hartford Couiant, the Wing organ of Connecticut.
In that State in Virginia, the Wing leaders are
in favor of surrender of their organizations and
fusion with Know Nothingsin To show to
Southern men the character Of the contest in that
State, and the bold and noble stand taken by the
Connecticut Democracy, suAjoin few extracts
from the Hartford CoUrant:
The election is of Importance 5 a vin,lication of
tie stand which Connecticut took, last spring, on
the Nebraska question. If the State rccedcs from
the bold and manly position it then took, it will be
considered a triumph by the pro-slavery party
and will be hcraided as such by every AdrniniStra
ton press in the country. The same friends of free
dom who rose in mass, last year, to express their
adherence Of the Nebraska outrage, and their de-
termination to resist the extension OF slavery,
needed this spring to preserve the position they
then assumed. The Democratic party hace openiy
enlisted themselves on tile SHE Of Slarery To sup
port it in the territories is their object To oppose
its extension requires the effort in 1855 that
did in 1854. Let man, who values the progress
of freedom in the land vote for the party whose in
terests and inclinarions all the side of the
tension of the nations curSc.-The election, then is
of Importance a continued manifestation of the
fixed opinions of Connecticut, the universal reign
of Freedom.
All the candidates for Congress- in this State,
right upon the Nebraska nquity, the non-ex-
tension of slavery the repeal of the Fugtivy Slave
Law, and the support of Temperance. All the
ddates of the Democrats are knOon to be followers
of the Administration and to favor its pro-savery
tendencies.-The Wing party, by itself, is in mi.
nority. 1t seems to us the duty of the Wings is
plain. They obtain the measures for which they
contend, though not the they would have NOM
mated, had there been no third party.
Let Virginia Know-Nothings mark what beauti-
full confederates they have in their Know Nothing
brethren of Cnnecticut!
The Know Nothing league formed ostensbly for
the defence of ProtestantSm against Catholicism and
of the native against the adopted citizen eminenty
insulting to those whom it pretends to defend Is
the Protestant faith weak Pare it's preachers such
miserabes guides-such feeble shepherds that they
require for their support and the support of their
churches the aid of midnight conclaves and political
prescriptions? May not be freely tolerated
when truth is left equally free to combat it? Will
Protestants under the mputation of being forced
to resign the guardianship of their faith into the
hands of prostituted politicians to be used
oftice-seeking humbug? 1t cannot be-
And to suppose that the native citizen, with all
the advantages ofnumbers of wealth, ofconnectons,
of every outward circumsta 1ces upon which ad-
vantage might be founded, shonld be forced to look
for defence against the poor emigrant in the oath
bound ranks of secret order, is an insult to the
intelligence and the open, manly spirit of every
tive North Caroinian 10 read the Know Nothing
papers one cannot but admire the chivalry displayed
by them in North Carolina, where they charge most
vigorously against class OF voters who, if they
all got together, would not suffice for mile
posts along road from the mountains to the
board.
The leaders of this thing are as we'll aware of these
facts as we are. They must feel in their very bones
that they are humbugs-that they are trying to OBJ
tain oficesu false, pretenses-that they are in
truth warning against Democratic ascendency, and
nothing else-that all the noise they making is
simply in the way eof :" a good enough Morgan"
which can do no good but may do much harm in the
way of stirring up hatred malice and all uncharita-
bleness Is this the true spirit of Professionalism
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