Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-02-17
LET THE SOUTH BEWARE!

We publish below letter from New York, to
which we ask the thoughtful attention Of our read
ers We know the authorize is a gentleman OF
character and man Of truth. He has friends in
the South whom he desires to protect against the
iylSdiouS approaches Of this secret organization; and
he loves the Union of the States, and would do all
man may do to warn his Southern friends against
efforts now foot, which, if successful, must end
in its disruption. He refers to former letter 10 Us,
in which he exposes the character and designs of
the Know Nothing organization. In that letter,
.peaking from personal observation and experience,
he says:
81 found the burden of the speeches made in the
general meetings OF the order, was hatred OF the
Catholic name and faith, organized opposition to ali
foreigners, and implicit Obedience on the part of
every member to the eGcts OF those who ruled the
order whilst in the private meetings OF the leaders,
1t scrn"gle TDr Q7ce "Ii@ :D1tt"~d| HyhtT0r
tie xU0ikS = Depend upon it, my dear Sir, 1t
will be sorry day for the South when she aban-
donS herself to the arms OF Know Nothngism. The
order at the North is composed OF men who are Sc
cc,icrs from all partics-bind adv of all kinds
Of isllS--lncn of fixed principles office-seGkcrS
ami suckers. The freeso platform and the doctrine
OF the abolitionSts is the only creed here which they
have in common; and the institutions Of the South
hire detdter Jocs than the hnoc0 Nothinys q tie
-i"5th"
Our Correspondent, in the same letter, further
and concludes as follows Though dcspising the
organization from the bottom of my soul, am de-
ternined to continue a member, just to keep posted
up in their movements and to find out their future
intentions.
Below is the second letter of Correspondent,
to mich we referred in the commencement Of this
article:
New YORK, Feb 8. 1855.
tt Eaor Nott"gs Of tire A"rh Ike -ii,soaixtS at tie
-NrihLlt"qsr 10 tie .>o"ta-Eleettoo II ". H. Hswa'd
The views and sentiments contained in my last
letter to you have been confirmed if confirmation
was ted. And now the great Know Nothing
ganzation in the Northern States stands before the
country the avowcd and open champion of abol-
tonism frccsoilism, and every other ism hateful to
the South The Know NOthngs had large ma
iority in the Legislature and had they desire to
defeat him, W. H. Seward never could have been
elected. The power was in their hands, and that
bower sends him agan to the Senate to insult the
SOuth-to agtatc the questions that will ultimately
rend the Union. Able and aStutc, his iar-reaChing
plans organizing in the shape of Know
Nothing councils vast bodies Of men in the South,
ready to be wheeled into the Seward ranks, and in
darkness and in secret they will vote for man
whom they dare not openly support and dare not
openly vote for. Let the Solth beware for the arch
reeSOllcr promises to reach the Executive chair
once filled by W Washington, Madison and jefferson,
ard should lie succeed an unsparing persecution of
Southern statesmen, and a remOrselcSS crushing OF
Southern interests will fill the South with mourning.
For God sake stop the Know Nothing movement i'll
the South! Tell the people it is freeso movement,
and Northern politicians are buying Southern votes
under the Know Nothing dodge. 1t is sung through
all the Southern Know Nothing councils that Willard
Fillmore is to be the candidate of the order in the
next Presidential election. False! false hell.
The entire organization of the North will be bent
against him. 1t is the last dodge of the freeso party.
This is movement, started only for the purpose
of entcng Southern votes for their support. 1t is
now universally acknowledged here that the election
of Seward unmaslE the whole thing. The Know
Nothing party and the freeso party and the
same thing.