Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-01-03
b WARNING WORDS For THE SOUTH.
Under this head the Washington Union states Il

Under this head the Washington Union states the
following startling and unqucstionablc facts:
" That there is not single prominent democrat
in the North known the advocate of the consttu
honal rights OF the States who is not the avowed
and persistent enemy of the know-nothng party.
That of all those elected to Congress by the know
nothings of Massachusetts,, every is committed
to the most utra-abolition doctrines
That Of all those elected to Congress in New York
by the know -nothings, they arc either the warm
friends of Mr. Seward, or they were the active and
unscrupulous adversaries Of the Nebraska bill.
That there is not whig elected in Ohio by the
know -nothings (and the delegation elected to the
new Congress from that State is whig, with two
three eXceptionsD there is not one that does not
cond and support the doctrines of the extreme abo
lition leaders.
That in Michigan every whig chosen has been ell
ectcd by the know nothings, and is the pledged op
ponent of the South, aud the pledged adversary Of
the doctrine of admitting more slave States, is
fact beyond all disputation.
The same may be said OF Pennsylvania, Indiana,
Wisconsin, and Illinois. These allegations may be
defended and established by names and antecedents.
Take next the friends of the constitutional rights
of the South who have been defeated in the North
by the know-nothing organization. In Maine we
have seen the veteran Paris, consistent national
democrat, defeated by the candidate of the know
nothings and abolitionsts, John NJ. Wood. In
Michigan, that fearless and out-spoken advocate of
nationality Hon. David Stuart has been defeated by
Howard, an unequivoca abolitionst and know moth
ing. In Ohio the intrepid DIR. Olds has been
borne by the notorious aboltionist and know-noth-
ing, Galloway. In Pennsylvania Hendrick B.
Wright, Charles Shaler, W. Montgomery, and other
| avowed advocates of national doctrines, have been
defeated by the candidates of the know nothngs and
the aboitonists. Ia New Jersey, DIR. Lilly and
General John S. Darcy, both standing upon the prin-
cples Of the constitution have been defeated the
knownothinSs and abolitioniSts In Indiana Messrs.
Dunham, John &. Davis Hendricks Eddy, and 9TH
de nfaS of St.te have
succeeded by abotonistS, elected by the know moth
| ing vote.
| 1t is true that in some cases anti-Nebraska men
have been defeated but the South will bear in mind
that in every such two things have been proved:
First, that the anti-NebraSka element (though not
the abolition elemenD has been lost sight Of and that
| every ant-Nebraska man who has been defeated has
bccn with very few exceptions, succeeded by rank
and fnatical abotonists!
| So that ow-nothngisn, if it has done one thing
more than another, has scelleI tho ranks of d6oli
| tionism I'm the North and has added Mrgety to the
pooer and the organi=atios Of the abo1Hioaists in
| Congress.
If the gallant and courageous Senator Dodge is
defeated in Iowa, it will be by know-nothing votes
| Ifthe notorious w. F. Johnston, of Pcnnsylva-
nia or the no less decided and committed enemy of
the South, Robert I. Conrad, or the abolition lea
| der, David Wimot, is chosen to the United States
Senate by the legislature of that State know wnoth
| ing votes will do the work.
Illinois legislature, will that defeat to the COM
bined forces of know -nothingism and abolitionism
And at this moment a notorious abolitionst, Gen
eral Wilson, looks forward to his election to the
| United States Senate by the know-nothing legsla-
ture of Massachusetts,.
Let the issue of mo more slave States be made
upon the next Congress, and the South will see how
| much it has gained by. the fusion between know
nothingsm and abolitionism. We shall then behold
such array of fanaticism in the national legsla
locou nol Avl to
fanatcism who will oppose themselves? We an
swer the true national democracy in Congress, and
| the united South. Nothing can prevent this latter
result but the adoption by the southern people, mis-
led by ambitious leaders, of know-nothing rcpres-
entatves and know nothing doctrines"
w- The Wilmington Journal disposes as follows
of the attempt of the Know Nothing organs here to
make capital out of the action of the Senate on
amendment offered to the Free Suffrage BILL
"D1sNGENUous. On Wednesday last the bill in
troduced into the Senate of this State by Mr. Boyd
providing for such amendment of the Constitution
would give to all persons qualified to vote for
bers of the House of Commons the right also to vote
for members of the Senate. i'll plain terms Free
Suffrage, passed the Senate by more than the con-
stitutional majority of three fths, which could not
| have been the case had it no: received some whig
| votes, what amounts to the same thing, had all
the whig strength been arrayed against it. The OBJ
ject and the sole object of the proposed amendment
namely the abolition of the fifty qualification
for Senatorial voters is we'll known and has often
been discussed in this State. 1t is intended to affect
! no other provision of the Constitution
This is simply the state of the and yet upon
these premises the Raleigh Star bases the assertion
that on Wednesday "the dominant majority voted
that all foreigners who may to this State, shall
have the privilege of voting for members of the Sen
ate after they have resided here twelve months and
paid public taxes although they have not been
naturalized according to the laws of the United
States"
In the first place. then, the vote shows that it was
not the dominant majority (by which the Star means
Democratic party) alone wh passed the Free Suf.
| frage Bill; and in the second place that Bill in no
manner shape alters in any way the position of
foreigners in this State from what it was and has al
ways been both under the original constitution adopt
ed at Halifax, in l776, the amended one adopted
at Raleigh, in 1885, the first of which gave to all
freemen of the age of twenty-one years, who may
have resided in the State year Immediately pre-
ceding any election and paid public taxes the right
of voting-the amended constitution is precisely the
same with the exception of excluding free negroes.
This provision not under consideration and is
not affected one way the other Let our Know
I Nothing friends go it strong they choose, but
we beg them to stick to the facts"
w The Editor of the Raleigh Star, without the
slightest provocaton the part of the senior Edi-
tor of this paper says in his issue of the 21st De-
cember, that we deserted" the Wings under "sus-
picous circumstances" and in his issue of the 2Sth
he impues to us personal and party malice" to-
wards Mr.. Graham and other Whig Senators. "Hol-
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