Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-09-22
For the Standard.
To the Young Men Of Western Carolina:

! To the Young Men Of Western Carolina:
In perusing the following lines, think not, kind
reader, that design setting myself mp as your IN
structor for my Object is OF a more humble charac-
ter. Having been myself of the class am address,
| ing, merely wish to drop few suggestions that
others with greater abilities and better opportunities
may take up the subject and devote the time and la
Tor it justly merits. From the dissolution of GER
tan national party, and entire abandonment of
its fundamental principles, /, among other young
men, have been led to reflect upon what our duty,
and what line of conduct should be pursued in the
future | am addressing that class who up to 1852
called themselves Wings, for to those who have Sc
cured passage on board the National Democratic
ship have but little to say at this tme more than
God grant them smooth sea, lively crew, and
complete success all their enemies With in
ternal machinery that works to perfection, and p
lot at the helm that knows every shoal, they have
nothing fear. Storm after storm may rise dark
over the way and the black clouds of the North
may threaten destruction but with her prov to the
enemy and her sails unfurled the wave and the gale
will still bear her But how stands the with
my young countrymen brought up in the school of
the immortal Cay? Have you national party 10
unite with in opposition to those you believed to be
enemies of the Constitution? Have you single
plank Of that noble vessel that he commanded
through three of the darkest storms recorded III
political history? Before the blood was cold in the
patriots veins combination of Northern and South
cc pirates seized UPON her, and the last news from
this Inflated craft she drifting the v'rge of
dismal whirlpool-her in wild, frantic excite
ment as 10 who of the imm0rtnls should be highest
in command. A few of the escaped, and their
information is that the vessel was old-her entire
frame being rotten and incapable OF breastns
the ttmi.~ts of these times. With these facts be-
fore YOU" eyes You stand upon the crunbinS
rains things that were, surrounded by enem cs
desire to deprive you of the rights of treemen,
what a"e yon going to Go? 1t is true there Is an
other party raised on the ruins of the you for
merly cherished and for which you abnred and toll
ed But you going to affiliate with men who,
like PLATE, decreed you death without the sennbance
of Il trial and like Brutus acted the leader OF the
assaS>in,? Are you going TO join hands with men
who dome a! i'll their power TO destroy your nation
al existence, and now propose by set of cunnngly
devised oathS, to dismantle you of that bright
robe" bequcathed to you b" a noble ancestry? Can
you take and subscribe the oaths laid down by this
new tangled party, and join with them in desecra-
ting the Constitution of your country, when by SO
doing you, Jac"bnicaille, will be forging the i'll
StrumentS to torture yourself and children?
vii! yon, with the historic light of seventy-nne
years shining with the brightness of the meridian
sun before your eyes aid in prosecuting and defa-
ming men and measures that have been the means,
through Divine Providence, of bringing your coun-
try to her present unparalleled grandeur? BY dis
appointment and confusion have you arrived to that
state of mind that you willing to close the por
tails of your heart to the suffering descendants of
those men who stood by your fathers
When the cannons red glare was painting hell ON
the skies -
Is it possible that there is young man in North
Carolina be his political faith heretofore what it
|cttyf"ho
office reSurected from its dark abode. that through
its Sulphuric flames he may witness the American
Eagle take is eternal exit from CoulnblaS bright
shores? Is he willing that his should be stunned
by the melancholy death kne of the liberties OF his
native land that few men who have Sh0tcn there
sc1res uaac0rthy Of confidence might more hold
office and guide the ship of State? Arc you willing
that bigotry, fanatciSn and bloody persecution
should uSurp the place Of reason and religious tote
ntiOn and that you should act the part OF hypo-
critic in assuming false nanles-thereby becoming IN
in the destruction of your countrys Hb-
critics and your sacred rights? But, young
what you going to do in such dl-
iemna There is no longer Wing party tor you
to act with. Thousands of your old leaders have
solemn!v deposed that modification had taken place
before its burial at Philadelphia in June last, that
mortal disease had been on it since the plague OF
1850 and the black pin administered by Drs Sc |
ward & Co.. at Baltimore in 1852 increased its eX-
cruciatng tortures. But repeat, what are you |
going do, thus surrounded? You cannot act out
side of some healthy organization. 1t IS man S Ia
turc to seek association, and human nature always |
will be the under similar circumstances. You
will not Ravner like, in the silence of the comics
Sinnal surrender the honor and dignity OF the Ola
North State into the hands of aboition$ts. and ex-
ecute a deed in fec-sirple of yonr rights? II
not, vour is marked out. That one Is the
7,aIty-a party composed OF untra'n-
need freemen whose benign principles have
brought us to our present greatness and like tn
principle of universal love, is bounded by neithr'
Oceans Continents In this party there is stfc-
Y fNr Yourselves, your children, and your country
md the sleeping spirits from the graves of your
ancestors rise up and you to shun the dnT& !
tess of Know Nothingism. The gentle night zephvrs
IS they rustic the long green grass over the tomh>
# your Revolutionary fathers, silently whisper in
our to keep yourselves aioot from such con-
pir;,gs Of aded politicians. and to ally yourselves
I'm l"nocracy-a party composed of the people
MILFORD.
R,rrnSyie Y O.