Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-10-03

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These preaching politicians have set q new trap to
catch the foreigners whom they could not seducein-
| to their know nothing lodges. twas styled sthe
american Protestant Association The idea was,
under the pretcxt Of religion and beneyoience,
all Protestant foreigners into this ASSOCIATION, TINS
younger brother of the know'nothlng hydra, ana ar
raw them against Catholic foreigners, thus creating
| a war of religions, if bloodiess, (Which was not
| likely) vet none the less odious and hateful The
trap was abolition know nothing catch, but FRO
tesant foreigners too wise to be guided INTO It.
-0 Governor Willard dwelt at length upon Know
nothingsm showing it up in all its dangerous ana
anti-repubican tendencies that, were
to succeed, our government would be su6Fertea.-
! Know-nothngism had arguments to otter but the
bowie knife the club and the pistol; and the hands
of that party red With the reeking gore OF the
men, women, and childreni they have but recently
| slaughtered at Louisville: Comio THESE outraseS
| continue in the cities? No! The country would
retajiate and dreadful retribution would follow
Civil war followed fast upon the heels of know
| inpism anarchy its twin brother. But the ma
| tional democracy and the national wings. arrayed
| side by side would make common against this
harlo of the nation under the broad pennant OF the
democratic party; they would array themselves IN
the great battle for our common country Victory
Governor Willard cited numerous instances ofthe
devotion of foreigners to country, both upon the
battlefield and in the civil office. They were tor the
true interests of the country, heart and SOUL Inc
first great battle for religious freedom in this coun-
try was fought in 1900 by Thomas Jefferson. The
second battle for the principle would be fought
in 1856 and the democracy of the nation must be
the champions of this principle. FIVE would save
our churches liberty, and our country, we must
stife this monster of know-nothingsm by combl-
nation of all the true patriots of the country-Wnlgs
and democrats Then shall our land be the land our
fathers made 1.-THE land of civil and religious
liberty. 80,
most deafenng applause. Indeed, throughout his
whole speech he was frequently disturbed oy the
choutc and cheers of the assembled multitude,
The LIKES AND DIsLExEs AN EDTToR-The ar
rival of the mails is the great event of the editorial
day. An editor likes g fat mall i. e. plenty of let
tiers with money in them. He is mercenary dog
He likes to receive communications which save
him labor, such may fill place in his columns
without being shortened or " fixed up" He is
lazy fellow.
His detestation of long badly written manu-
script, which may have grain of interest lurking
upon its blots and scratches, and which therefore
he feels it his duty read has been expressed
in words and never can be. He is an irascible per-
son, rather.
He likes to receive letter from remote place,
telling him that his paper is the best in the world
He is a modest man.
He likes Chat is, the young edtor) to go into a
handsome apartment in the house of lone of the
first families and see a lovely woman sitting on
magnificent sofa, under respondent astral lamp,
deeply absorbed in the perusal of the last num-
Der that she dose not notice his entrance for live
minutes How he bushes. He forms hg opin-
ion of her moral, social, and intellectual worth.
He likes, when two Thousand miles from home, to
backwoodsman sitting on stump in front of
his log cabin, a fine Sunday morning, lost in the
columns of some Incompatible Shcct-Say for ex-
ample, Life Illustrated This YES him all idea of
the universally of his genius.
He likes all those exchanges which have the dis
elimination to copy anything from the columns,
particularly if the article is preceded by some COM
mandatory observations But,
He abhors exchange which copies without
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such fellow. But magnanimty forbids
He likes exclusively to article of his in the
London Times, credited to an American paper
Why couldn't they put the credit properly, is
what he would like to know.
He likes to see himself copied into John O'Groats
journal, The Oregonian, The Melbourne Argus
He is making himself felt at the antipodes! His
voice has gone forth to the ends of the earth.
He likes to be first to announce anything. But
if in his eagerness to do So he has made a man
dead who is only sick, and is ANONYMOUSLY cor
rected by rival, and obliged himself to acknowl-
edge the error, he don't like it.
He likes-oh! how he likes it to get out the
best number he issued. He has this happiness
very frequently.
He dislikes-oh how he dislikes-a Topographic |
cal in the best phrase of the best sentence of
the article in the paper Typographical errors gen.
orally occur in that very place.
Yet, after ALL there few things he likes as
well fat mail !" diskes so much as a lean
one The poor fellow must live-at lesat he thinks
SO. Life illustrated
TIE LOUISVILLE RIoTs.-The nat re of the Louis |
vile atrocities may be inferred after reading the fol-
lowing, which copy from the Louisville Times:
The BLOODY MoNDAY.-The Rev. Mr. Curran,
Meth odist clergymen at Jetfersonvle Indiana, has
written a letter to Gov. Wright, from which |
make the following extract:
The scenes in Louisville on bloody Monday have |
never been fully portrayed. From my chamber |
window, that dreadful night, witnessed the |
German dwellings, heard the screams of women and |
children, the rattle of Firearms and the shrieks of
the wounded and dying and oh God forbid l |
should witness such sight again, even at such |
the recollection sickens me, and fills my
dreams with fearful images. And for these atroci
ties portion of the professed religious press of the
country find an apology. The Western Christian |
Advocate the following week gave the know-nothning
version of the whole affair throwing the blame
upon the poor foreigners, without utterng word
of against their brutal murderers: and the
editor himself Irishman! Has he sold himself |
to the enemies of his countrymen? How else can
we account for his editorial course?
"There was once a Judas and Arnold, shock
ing instances of perfdy and iniquity, which We had
hoped would never find parallel; there may how
ever, turn up another traitor.
1t is now manifest that the upon the Catho-
lies is only incident in this great movement; it
is rung in to catch the fanatic That portion of the
city OF Louisville where the greatest slaughter of
men and woman and destruction of property took