Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-06-27
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TOT IIIV OttIIIudIu.
ss Sam - in Yancey.


MEssRs HOLDEN & WILSON In the Star of the
9th inst. see article headed Sam" in Yancey,"
and in substance affirming that Sambo is doing well
in this county, and that his oVerseer, Leander Is.
Carmichael, will beat Hon. I. L. Clingman in Au-
gust next 1 suspect the writer of this to be man
of this place, who is in many respects clever enough,
but an old straight, jacket fogy, and is certainly wo-
fully msled as to what Sambo is doing in this Con-
gresSional District 1t is well known that during
April Court Messrs. Davis, Gather, McKesson,
Caldwell, Vance, and old Nick, (Woodfn) were bu-
sy in trying to get persons to join the Jacobin Club.
1t is supposed they held their meetings in the COL
lege buildings and with windows muftled with sad
die blankets and dim tallow candle, they sat in
solemn conclave plotting and coEspirng against the
Clingman whom they afraid to meet in the open
day. but like the savage of the forest endcavor
to kill and scalp the bright rays of the sheds
light upon their midnight crimes. They prayed,
preached and toed until great drops of sweat fell
from their temples, and on Thursday night rumor
saws they harnessed Baptist minister, who swal
lowed the first pill degree) but when it came to the
second he told them NO, HE COULD NOT con-
SISTENT WITH HIS RELIGION GO ANY FUR
THEIR. Then the awful moment arrived Some
thing quick must be done. They told him he had
taken one oath, and if he did not take the other he
would perjure himself He said that lie aoouM not
90 any further, that IF the first perjury the
aecond degree oco"Id be Hkeo1se and he soou@ rather
be guilty oT Sacearing lie lgn0rantly than taco
knouoingty, and left the room. Then with their
combined forces rendered desperate by defeat, they
attacked in the dead hour of the night the unsus-
pCctng students, (Some OF them under Il years ot)
and morally slaughtered some fifteen poor innocent,
helpless creatures Poor fellows, they good
hearted and jovial mates, but they are gone. | am
informed that since that they have added fire to their
ranks, but more have signified determination to
withdraw. This is Sambos history in Yancey, and
worse Will be his fate in this District. Carmichael
will be added to the long list of unprincpled polt
clans whose intellects arc insufficient to meet in
open discussion the Hon. Z. L. Clingman, than
whom no purer statesman lives in the American
Union. Since the Virginia elections the few that
are here look and down cast, which goes to
confirm me in what Mr.. Cngman says Of them,
viz: that Almighty God has organized the hui
man countenance that when the heart is brooding
over heinous crime either committed or to be COM
mited, that it gives down cast to the countenance
ted and organized in the darkness of night against
the Constitution of this great Confederacy? Mr..
Clngman is at this time carrying the war into the
enemy's country, and is cutting them down on eve
ry side, but like a brave General all who surrender
and withdraw from the rebels he shows them quar-
ters those whose political crimes have rendered them
odious before the people flying to the dark
in the mountains-and the balance are busiy
engaged in digging graves to inter their slaughtered
companions who they know will fall on the first
Thursday in August. Confusion and disnay is seen
in their ranks and their leader, Carmichael, speaks
with faultering voice.
Will you please speak to Mr. Rayner or Miller to
preach the funeral of Know Nothingism in your
section. We have few barrels of hard cider and
old coon skins to pay them for their trouble.
FAIR DEALER.