Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-06-02
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authority " of gentleman of undoubted veraclty.
"A young man addicted to Incorporate habits,
during one of his periodical 'sprees' took sudden
notion to pay visit to his sweetheart On the
evening alluded to- the young lady and female as
sociate the only occupants OF the house where
she resided. .- A. .-...-.....--
"About ten o'clock in the evening the young man
arrived at the house, considerably worse from the
use of beverages.-Hs strange manner in approach
ing the door excited the suspicion of the young
ladies, who supposed the house was attacked by
robbers. He knocked at the door, and demanded
admission; but his voice not being recognised from
the thickness of his tongue the ladies refused to
comply with the demand.
81" Determined to force entrance he commenced
series of assaults upon the barred and boted door
by kicking and pounding. After number of des-
perate kicks, the PANEL of the door gave way, and
the leg of the besieger went through the aperture
and was Immediately seized by one of the ladies
and firmly held while the other, armed with a saw,
commenced the work of amputationi
"Tne grasp was FIRMLY maintained, and the saw
vigorously piled until the leg was completely sever
ed from the body!
"With the loss of his leg, the intoxicated wretch
fell upon his back, and in that condition lay the
mainder of the night.
SIN the meantime the ladies were frightened al
most to death. With the dawn of morning the re-
violation was made that of the ladies had par
ticpated in the amputation of the leg OF her lover!
''The wretched man was still alive.-His friends
were Immediately sent for, and he was conveyed to
his home, where, with proper treatment he gradu-
ally and miraculously recovered, and is now AlVe
and we'll.
1--WE hardly credited" says the editor of the
Journal from which we quote, the latter part OF
the story, and contended that the man must have
bed to death the spot, insisting, indeed, that it
could not be otherwise. But we were mistaken.
"The leg was wooden one.
Jumpers Magazine.
Mr. Calhoun labored for the Union. But he knew
we'll enough that it not to be preserved by piece
meal aggression upon one side and gradual submis-
sion on the other. Had the North needed his coun-
sels she would have restrained the hand ofsobbery,
and the South would never have submitted But he
stood Ike prophet among men, whose warnings
=. ;ed as wild utterances not to be thought of or
.ibered, until fulfilled too late in tears and sor-
row. There is not in all history spectacle more
sad than the closing years of Mr.. Calhoun Like
his great competitors, sectonalism had levelled all
his efforts. The Constitution, which had been the
star Of his life, gone; the party whose prln-
cples he illustrated and defended in many stormy
crisis had turned traitor to its own faith; and the
Union, for which he had toiled, and hoped and ago.
nized was crumbling to pieces. And so he died,
hopeless and despairing, doomed to look with his
last glance upon the failure of his best and purest
hopes.
Since the departure of these great men, sectional
domination has tow cred more than ever And now
it not ONLY controls the whole North but has COM
pete party organization with which to push on its
policy. What is the condition of things in the
South d? Hearts beat high, and indignant defiance
is heard all through her borders But there is no
organizaticn--no rallying principles-no united,
",
and mastered. The disastrous fruits of those coun-
ellis which discouraged Southern union for the pro-
lection of the South-whch, in the false spirit of
Mr.. Webster's own words, liberty and union, now
and forever, one and acknowledgement that |
the union was paramount to right, and was to be
saved by shameful compromises and hollow peace, |
are now seen and bitterly deplored.
To us it is no surprise. We never have believed !
in such blind and cowardly counsels. We never |
regarded the Union legitimiZed, constitutional
instrument of oppression. We have counselled the |
South to resistance not to dissolve the Union but |
to protect herself and we have despised as we'll !
the imputations as the policy of those who in their
blind dolatry for government framed to preserve
liberty, thought the means paramount to the end,
and reviled US because we Spurned the absurdlty.
We turn to those in the South who have condemn
ed u.s. and ask where is now their hope? We ask
those to whom the mention of Southern organiza-
ton has been hitherto disgust and terror, what
remedies now? 1t is upon you that the RESPONSE
btes of the present and the future rest. 1t is to
you that history will aScribe the shame OF long an
nails of wrongs submitted to, and rights sacrificed
and it is your work, &" Unon-savers of the South"
that now when her enemies have grown insolent
with impunity, and pressing on with organized
power to overwhelm and destroy her, that instead
Of being united and ready for Defence she is divd-
ed and paralyzed Charleston NercaTy.
LAMENrAr1oN.-The cry and wailings of the Know
Nothings against the administration for removing
our persons who held offices in the Gosport Navy
Yard, caps the climax of impudence. These men
appointed to those places chiefly on account OF
heir partizan services-they did not hesitate to
,omplish the ostracism of Wings the plea that
hey were inmica to the existing dynasty; and yet,
hey scarcely warm in their situations before,
dder-like they turned to sting the hand that sus-
aimed them. What right had they to expect to be
etaned who, under masked battery, were wag-
ng ruthless against the administration and
hat constitution which it had, in the face of the ma
ion, soemnly sworn to support, protect and de-
end" Not content in exercising their private opin
ons they carried their monsrous heresies into the
workshops of the Government and by persuasions
md threats infused their poison into the minds of
he honest but credulous laborers placed under
heir control Proscriptive themselves, prescription
has been melted out to them, and verify they have
heir reward.
But it is farcieal to hear Know Nothings prating
bout prescription and the freedom of opinion Why
is notorious that the great leading cardinal princ
lie of their order is oroscription 1t is the only tie
hat binds them in loving fraternity. This and the
ublic spois are the only cohesive elements that
md their patriotism would dissolve into thin air,
nd their party cease to exist in less than week.
What right has this midnight organization to
omplain when their poisoned chalce is returned to
heir own lips? What does their own brief career
each US in relation to this matter? Every page of
he origin and progress of their history is marked
Nth prescription prescription! prescription of
he most bitter, cruel ruthless, remorseless charac
er. We have no occasion to go abroad for the
roofs, for we have abundant evidence of their dis
osition and course here at home. What was their
onduct at the last local elections in Norfolk and
portsmouth, Every officer from the highest to the
owes without reference to merit, long tried faith
IL service, age or condition were hunted down. and