Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-04-28

SECTION SIT shall be the duty of the Ina,
Sentinel to attend to the inside door and reno
the Vice President the names and Councils of ~
persons applying for admission, and admit snc' ue
the Vice President may order; but to admit NO as
without the words, unless otherwise ordered b
the President after being youched for by membeS,
of the Council 0er
SECTION 8. 1t shall be the duty of the 0,t..,
Sentinel to attend to the outside door and admir- NC
person without the password except candidates .nS
those he may know to be members of the Order ~
who are vouched for by member of the Council u
49, ARTICLE FOURTH
At any time within two months after the a.
meeting of each Subordinate Council there shall ho
chosen three Representatives to the State CouncS
elected for one, two three years. who shall Inv I
decide the several terms of said one two or ibres
years which each shall serve; and at each succeed
ing annual meeting each Council shall elect one Rem
resentative t" three years, and shall fill vacap
cies whenever the same may occur.
AkTCLE FIFTH
SECTION Amy member wishing to take tho G.
cond Degree Of the Order, shall make application f
the same, in open meeting, personally or by proyv
which application shall be referred to three Second
Degree members, who shall report at the next meet
ing, when the applicant shall be voted for by Second
Degree members only, as in the election of a nrw
member.
SECTION 2.-No member shall be eligible to tbo
Second Degree until he has been member of sub
ordinate Council in good standing, at least three
weeks; prorided, hOaoe0er that the State President
Council is located, shall have power for sufficient
cause shown, to give to any Council dispensaton
to confer both Degrees without probation
SECTION 3.-The Second Degree shall not be con-
ferreu upon any member except in the Council in
which he initiated proUided hoaoerer that mem
bers who have been admitted from other Councils
shall be eligible when possessing the qualification
mentioned i'll Section 2.
ARTICLE SIXTH.
SECTION AL charges and offences preferred
against member shall be duly specified and Sub.
mitted to the Council writing when they shall be
referred to special COMMITTEES, who shall summon
such member to appear before them to answer the
allegations set FORTH and after fair and impartial
examination thereof, report their decision to the
Council, which shall at once proceed to the conside
ration and disposal of the case.
SECTION Amy member who shall be proved
guilty of violating any principl of the Order or Of
Tending against these articles or otherwise miliat-
ing against the interests of the Organization shall
be subject to reprimand expulsion two-thirls
of the members present at any regular meeti g may
determine.
ARTICLE SEVENTH
A quorum for business in any Subordinate pun-
Gil shall consist of thirteen members when c,mpn,.
ed of less than thirteen members, the whole numb,r
of members shall constitute quorum.
ARTICLE EiGHTH.
Any Council shall have power TO establish such
Bylaws and Rules may be deemed expedien;
provided they accord with the Grand State and Sub
ordinate Constitutions and are approved by the State
Council.
ARTICLE NINTH.
Any proposed alteration amendment to this
Constitution shall be submitted in writing to the
State Council, one meeting at least previous to be-
ing acted upon.
POINTS WELL STATED.-Our intelligent correspon.
dent" G. /. w." sends US very able communities
ton, from which we take the following passages:
america to be Ruled By 4naericans!
In Gods name, who but Amer leans do rnle Amer
lea 1t is shrewdly suspected that General Pierce is
a ndtipe-b born American, and that every member of
his cabinet is also to the manor born and so far
the ruling OF America is concerned it is, by the voice
of the people, committed to their hands and so long
they occupy theirplaces.
1t is not known, either, that any foreigner is as
piring to the place of President oti these United
States and if such is the fact he is certainly wasting
his time, for, unfortunately for him. there is little
provision in the constitution of the country thatre
dcrs him ineligible. Tits beyond the control If votes
10 make him President until the constitution is
changed. Nor is there any desire expressed ON The
part OF the foreign population, which is comparatively
nall to have any change made in il that foreigners
would be eligible to the office of President And if
they did desire such change, man in his sober
has the remotest idea that the people of the
country would fora onent entertain the PROPOSE
ton. Hence, the idea of any but Americans ruling
America" is ridiculous in the eXtreme-a mere gull.
trap of demagogues.
1t may be Improbable to institute the inquiries
who is Sam - and what is his history T? and give
such answers as the known history OF the country
affords. In answer to the first it may with truth be
said-for his record proved -thal is the ac0rthy
son OF old g1uRfy FEDERALISM whose history is recor-
ded in the alien and sedtion laws and such other kin
dred measures ofgoverment her ardent woshippers
labored to perpetuate as best adapted to keep in
CHI ok the progress of the impertin spirit ofrcpub
II, anlsm, which was manif,s in this country at that
early day, and to promote which the republican
party abored hard, and triumphantly
Sam" snow nearly forsy-one years of age, hav-
ing been born at Hartford Connecticut in the first
known nothing lodge" ever erected in this country
In the TALL of 1914 The lodge in secl ct sson
Tor three weeks, and no one outside knew what WAS
going on within. Finally, the doors were thrown
open, and 1t was proclaimed that new rrer
born, and the principles oil his code prescription
OF the South and Oengeulce forcign-bon citlzcns
VIZ Representation according free population, and
entre prohibition to foreignborn citizens from voice
OF place, I'D any degree, III the administration of Tie
affairs of governlnet; which interpreted, means abO-
htionsm IN ITS Yankee form, and repeal of al nat
urallzation laws.
Sam, at his birth, was an Unlocking, unpromi.
sing little creature, almost aborton-so much 50,
indeed that his parents and g.dIathers were ashamed
to have him chrisened in puolic aud it is believed
that the were not performed till the year
1904, when the lodge" again secretly met and aft
great deoeration, it was decided have the ceremo
MES performed at midnight, and announced SAN
rs the ruling spirit of America and he issued his bull
accordingly, proclaininS that Americans souldrule
Americal !"
HEoKLER, THE WONDERFUL lit is well known,
>says the Richmond Enquirer) that Mr. Patton, in
his " great speech, /" lauded to the skies letter OF