Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-11-10


is dspelling their mysteries. The next you will see
of Sam, he will be his knees praying against
slavery and John Bareycorn He has dropped Pope
Plus Nonus and has just discovered after all he has
said about His Holiness supremacy, that every ma
turazed Catholic takes an oath expressly to re-
all allegiance to any and every prince, power,
potentae, king, sovereign or state and particularly
to the prince power, potentate, king, sovereign or
state, of which he was before subject And he
begins to admit that if an extra.judicial oath may
bind KnowNothing to passive obedience and nom
resistance to unseen, Intangible, irresponsible,
secret oligarchy, that, perchance, we may rely on
the judicial oaths of naturalzed citizens to
allegiance to all supremacy whatever except the
sovereignty of the United States of North America.
give you the right hand of fellowship IN opposi-
ton to the sumptuary laws which have OF late years
disgraced the codes of some of our States. Why,
some Legislatures to have lost the horn-books
of personal liberty They for free soil and free
negroes, but upon the liberties of free white
men! They seem to have never known that there
were such things, first invented in North America,
as bills of rights defining those which inaliena-
BILE, and fixing the limits of legislation! Where
was the principle Of Liquor laws to stop! No
where short of invading every nalienable right OF
individual man. If municipal law cannot touch
vested rights much less can it invade the natural
rights of the individual person. In such dominion
that of England, they may hardly dare to con,
fine the rights of the person to air, to light and
to flowing water" at this day but here there ne
yer was a moment, since colonial times, when the
rights of persons not infinitely extended be-
yond these out of the reach of legislation. On!
but they say that such laws are sanitary, not sump-
tuary And who made them Hospitalers Of Hy-
geia health nurses for the people? Health is about
as private possession, about as itus ct IN cute,
personal as any man can be endowed with Who
created government to turn Quack and prescribe
physc? "Physic to the dogs !" There arc other
things which destroy health besides alcohol. Eat
ing as we'll as drinking, gluttony well drum
kenness hurts health. WI any one say that legls-
lation may take charge of my table, and my diet
and appetite and say what shall eat? If they
may prohibit man from buying and selling whis-
key may they not prohibit his planting and sowing
on his fee-simple SOIL of his buying and selling
the corn and rye from which the whiskey is distl-
ed Again, French corsets have hurt more the
health of whole generations have crippled for their
lives and for their posterity too, more women
and children than ever John Barleycorn slew Of
men! Shall Hiss committee be allowed by law to
inspect Madame's and MISS chambers, and see
whether whaebOne and hard cord encompass Ia
dies waists too tight? The idea would be ridicu-
lous, if it not so insuferably tyrannous. You
cannot legslatc men to morality; you must cdu-
cate them to liberty and virtue. Manners and NOR
ais must begin at the mothers knee must be train
cd in the schools and home and domestic teaching
must give to the country pupils fit for the schools,
and the schools must give to the country people
who will require no such despotic laws They don't
suit people fit to be free; they corrupt and de-
moralizc people already fit to be slaves The last
source would appeal to, for temperance in eating
and drinking, is Legislature, Federal or State
.! we Metropolitan high livers! what tales Cham
payne and London Dock, and canvas backs, and
terrapins, and oysters could tell upon your example
of abstemiousness and Sclf-denial! How your tenn
pcrance tells upon your lvers and your legislation,
too, at times. The truth is, all these "isms' come
from the same indus of the cocatrix. They
come from the Scribes and Pharisees, who would
take ofo tlIe . consceu.uo, they arc in~er
tons of ambitious priestcraft-or who have a
little religion to help their secular affairs, and who
are little worldly help their religious atIairs-of
preachers of Christian politics, who are subtcly
to civil 1l0p III
men who don't "rendcr unto Caesar the things
which are Caesars" " unto God the things
which are Gods'-of hypocritcs who would super
servccably cut an ear for their Master with the
sword, without his orders and against his law, and
who would deny Him thrice before the cock crew
once. And these aided by cowardly and kna-
wish politicians who either fear or fawn upon their
secret and sinister influences. We have only to
drive out all such from the temple, as the dovcsc-
lers driven out by the Master whose "pure
and indebted religion before God and the Father is,
to visit the widow and the fatheress, and TO keep
ones self unspotted from the world !"
Finally, gentlemen according with you, as do,
in the leading principles of your platform, cordi-
ally accept your invitation to unite with you in
grating them upon the policy Of the country. And
| especially concur with you in the sentiment that
it is upon principle alone We ought to unite and
that all coalitions between those who essentially
differ on cardinal points, are unprncipled and de-
And here might pause but, long as
this letter is [ have a word more to say. | hope |
have answered your kind compliment in its
spirit, without inquiring whether you have any
alias-any other name under Heaven by which you
are known among men than that of National Demo-
Gratis. have purposcly omitted to do
Like yourselves, another body of Democrats OF
New York, lately, approached me fairly and openly,
and responded gratefully to them l do to you.
l was soon upbraided with having given :. aid and
comfort" to certain party called "Softs' Now,
some may say that have likewise given in ad-
hesion to the Hards of New York. Well, all |
can say for myself is, that | don't mean to know !
any Hard or Soft names for my friends who will |
unite with in the mission of the Democracy to
proclaim. and maintain the great doctrine OF civil
and religious liberty, and to uphold and enforce the
Constitution in its sublime principles Of justice and
equality"
You must not wonder thatyour Democratic friends |
in Virginia often confused by names and things
in New York. We wish to united Democracy
there the old grounds of Jefferson and Jackson.
We hear of Hard, and Soft and Half Shells. and
the ideas we form of them be best illustrated |
by subject of natural history. We have in our
waters, gentlemen crustaceous animal called cab |
"a fish, with fins and claws at both ends, and
it can run either end foremost. Poke at him this |
way and he runs that-that way and he runs this
He is remarkable, gentlemen, for his transforma- |
TONS At one time catch HIM and crack his claw |
and his shell is hard, very hard, hard enough for |
barnaces to grow upon his back, and it will not Sc
0arate or be detached from the inner cuticle In |
hat state he is the Hard Grab proper. AT another
lime, catch him and crack his claw-when he is |
hard be sure to crack his claw, gentlemen, and you
will find that, though his outer shell is still very
hard yet it will separate and be detached from
the inner cuticle film over the muscles. He is |