Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-01-17
THE GOVERNMENT /, HOUSE. z

approprating five thousand dollars for additions and
repairs, and one thousand dollars for furniture. Mr.
Wilder made detailed statement of the condition
of the Executive Mansion and the out-houscs and
grounds, which struck many with surprise. The in
terror of the building is decayed in many Places and
the Kitchen stables, fences or palings decay
cd as to be almost entirely unfit to be occupied or
used. Five thousand dollars, it was thought would
erect two wing rooms for the more comfortable
commodatioa Of the Governor and his famiy-rcpair
roof construct palingS &c.. but after debate, the
Resolution, ON motion of Mr. Wilder, was recomnit-
ted to the Committee, with instructions to bring in
bill for erecting Government House. Mr..
Graham, Mr.. Cherry, and others, who took part in
the debate, signitied willingness to vote any
sonabc amount that might be required to construct
a new building, if the Legislature should think pro-
per to do SO; and Mr.. Wilder, though he had repor
ted the Resolution referred to the organ of the
Committee, was NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that true
economy would be consulted by the erection of a
new building. We concur in this view of the mat
ter. The present building, always uncomfortable
especially in the winter season. is defective and go
ing to decay and the money expended in repairing
it during the next ten fifteen years. would go far
towards erecting new one. lfit should be decided
to erect new house, and Nash Square, the pres
cnt could be repaired at small expense compar
atively, SO as to render the Governor confortabie
and after the completion of the building the old
onc and grounds could be disposed of by the State
for at least half the amount which would be reqir-
ed to erect the one Besides, the Governor, it
seems to us, should have Office in his mansion
it, well as at the Capitol; for We KNOW from
observation, that it is exceedingly inconvenicnt for
that officer, owing to the number of persons who
visit him at the Capitol, to attend constantly as
he could wish to do to the business of his Office
.Yy- We have been SD crowded of late with Leg
isative proceedings and speeches. that could not
command the space wished for other matters Of
interest to readers We have desired especially
to pay respects to the secret order Of Know
Nothngs; but we hope to have space for this
subject as we'll for others deeply affecting
the public mind
Once fer all however, take leave to express the
opinion, that the so-called Know Nothing Ameri-
can party, is one of the dcadcst foes which Demo-
cracy ever had to encounter We believe it to be,
also, organization dangerous to the peculiar inst
tuons of the Southern States. Its greatest riumphs
achieved, for instance in Massachusetts,, the hot
bed of abolitionsm; indeed, it is stated in the pa
pcrs that in the Massachusetts Legislature which is
entirely Know Nothing, the infamous Theodore Par
kcr, the abolitionist and blasphcmcr, received
hundred and twenty votes for Chapain This is
significant fact We again most earnestly warn
Democratic friends against this secret order Touch
not, taste not, handle not the uncean thing" A
late number of the Washington Union contains the
following:
"But the difficulty with the know nothines is, not
that they select natives and Protcstans to office and
that they exclude the icign born Catholic cti-
from the privileges of competition, but that they
require nothing in their candidate except America
birth places and religious hate. Intellect, knowl-
edge, honesty, experience, sound principles of gov
crnment-thcSe are nothing in the order, by the
side of those two clements upon which the order is
founded. Hence it is not strange that they have
removed good and capable from office, and sub
stituted bad snd incapable in their places. The
same process must continue as long the same in
flucnces last. The haunts Of secrecy not the
natural resorts of virtue and greatness they the
fit skulkng places of rascality and corruption. An
office-sceker who is deficient, either in brains
character, had better always pursue his object by
stea.thy means. Under the broad light of public
discussion he would be more likely to get into the
pententiary than to get n o office.
We marvel how any one who possesses the COM
mon spirit of man can degrade himself by
citation with this secret order Of the know nothings
We never hear of such person without nstinctvely
feeling for him a mingled emotion Of pity and con
tempt There is a meanness, lttleiess a coward
ice about the society, which cannot fail to sink it
INTO the lowest depths of popular disgrace. Not
even the monstrous bigotry and intolerance upon
which it is founded can elevate it into dignity.
Some worthy men have been dcludcd into its ranks;
but they will not remain there Some corrupt polti
clans have seized upon it ladder to place; but
their ladder will break down before many of them
have begun to climb it; and when the break comes,
they who fall will get plenty of bruises, but no sym
again ..-..-.! a'> .....-.
az We give below the yeas and nays on the
passage of the bill its second reading in the Com
mons on Friday last incorporating the Wilmington
and Charlotte Railroad Company. The bill was
strongly supported by Messsrs Steele, Norment,
McKesson, aud others:
Those who voted in the affirmative arc, Mcssrs. A
mis- Baxter, Black Boyle, Bryson d: F. Caldwell 4. Ii.
Garland, Gentry, Gillian, Gorrel G. Green, j: II.
Headen, A. d. Headen, Horton, Humphrey, johnson,
Jones' Jordan, Lancaster, ii. Lcacr, Mann, McKes-
son, Mebane, Myers, I. j. Neal, j. W. Neal, Nor
ment, Oglesby, Patterson Patton, Phillips, Regan.
Roen, Rose, Russell Shepherd, Shipp Sharpe, Sher-
rill Simmons Stubbs Steele Sutton, Turner Vance,
6. NJ White, n B. Whitfield, Whitlock, Wilkins,
b. f. Williams, T. H. Williams. Yancy-59.
Those who voted in the negative are Messrs. j.
Barnes A. Barnes, Badham, Blow, Bryant, Bullock,
| j. B. Bynum, Gotten, Craven, Daniel, Daughtry,
Dortch Flynt, NJ Green, Hill, Holland Jarvis Jen-
kns j. NJ. Leach, LpnSsIyon March, Martin, Out