Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-08-01
NUMBER 1885.


Know Nothing leaders complaining of what they call
prescription under the administration of President
Ferce This is the complaint we heard in 1s4 1914,
ls4S and 1882 and they got power in
1910 and 1s4s they began turn out Democrats for op
ions sake and they kept up this prescription they call
it. with vengeance before known in this country
Why, Mr. Granger Gen. Harrisons Postmaster General,
boased in the House of Representatives that during the
first three weeks of his he had taken off seosntee
hundred heads Just let these leaders get power again. and
see if they appoint single Democrat to Office The hypo
critics pretend to be against prescription before the election
in order to enlist popular sympathy and obtain voes but
after the election their chief business is that of turning
out their opponents dividing the Offices among themselves
and wrangng the spols Why look their Ritual
&c. recently published in the Standard examine it
fully and you will observe that their great object in s
contest IS Office and that they have actually laid plot by
which they hope to every Office in the State in their
possession. Not word is said about e1peng member
of the Order until uoting 1t is not required
that he shall be either honest pous benevolent
charitable sincere friend good neighor; but lay
ing all these things out of vew matter what he may
be- HE nckEr-hs must sugport tie leaders
and the Big Podto Of tie Order for Office render
hinsef liable to be Lscturea or ExpKLLEDI
DR.. j. S. 7. BAIRD, of Asheve in a card vindcating
himself from the attacks of the members of the secret
party made because he withdrew said party speaks
as follows Of the boasted increase of Bnow-Nothingsm
not great while before Withdrew and there then
only $50 members, including those who had already quit
the Order At that very time they boastng publicly
that they had five six hundred members feel con-
hdent that since then they have made great many
accesson and that they have than half tho
number they boast Of believe they count anything
OFF for those who withdraw, who by the by,
merous by good deal than they publish You hear
them boastng after gathering that they have put
tTougH large number but in most instances they
such as have already been w through the first degree and
they have just been pung then, through the second
and so 1t is when they put them through the third 1t is in
this wey by counting the three times that
they try to make appear that they have three times
many members as they really have"
VINO TELLS TRUTH ?-The American Organ is denoun.
cling Senator Wilson Aboonst and swearing lusi
iy that he is not Know Nothing; while Mr.. Rayuer
serts that this same Wilson is Know Nothing and ga
good State rights man one of the leaders of that
Northern brigade which is TO sweep Democracy from
land We would suggest 10 Mr. Rayner that he third
brigade in the persons of negro Know Nothngs in
New York. When all the K n. forces are marshalled
there will be shades and coors than were found in
the ringed sreaked and striped cattle of Jacob Such
speckled, notified piebald purid, northern crew were
never before collected under banner Rayner Wilson
and Fed Douglas are fit leaders for them
g Beware of false reports and falsehoods of all SORTS
which will be put in circulation by Know Nothngs and
their paid agents tire day of the election They are
already charging that the Nothing candidates
for Congress Roman Catholics. and that
ton.