Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-05-23

H The Legislatures of New York and Massachu.
setts, it is KNOWN largely Know Nothing and for
the Maine liquor law. They are also abolition in
their character; and the same is true to the late
Legislature of Maine, which passed ultra abolition
resolves and enacted very stringent prohibitory
liquor law In the Northern or non-slaveholding
States, all these isms incariably 90 together; and
they are used by designing men and unscrupulus
deceivers of the people to advance their own
rupt and selfish ends The New York Herald,
neutral paper furnishes the following sketch of the
character of the Legislatures of New York and Mas
sachusetts. What would be the fate of this great
country if such men should obtain the control of
its affairs at the federal capital? The Herald has
not overdone the picture-indeed, it appears to be
true to the life. We very much fear that the world
is no better than it was centuries ago. Reader!
look at this pictue of Know Nothingism and its
kindred isms:
"SINGuLAR ANOMALIES OF MODERN MORAL LEe1s-
LATIoN :-NEw YORK AND MASsACHUsETTs.-Some
Of the late proceedings of the excessively moral re.
1gous, temperate and high toned anti.slavery Leg
islatures Of New York and Massachuse It's are very
curious and very suggestive of the pretensons and
weakness of poor human nature.
In Massachusetts, to begin with, they appointed
committee to look into those terrible and danger
female Catholic institutions Of education and re-
ligon, which threaten to undermine and blow up
the old Bay State Assembly and Bunker Hill Monu.
ment with another Popish Gunpowder Plot But
wolf in Sleeps clothing was discovered among the
goats of the committee. He was brought up for ex-
animation, and found to be very bad customer to
sit among the sixty preachers of the Gospel in the
House Of Representatives at Boston. He had pas.
sion for strange women-a horrid thing in mar
red man outside Of Mormondom; he had foisted
the name of certain luxuriousy inclined Mrs. Pat.
me of ho md
had unawfuy enjoyed himself in her society, &C.
cording to the strong circumstantia testimony of
the experienced chambermaid of the hotel at Lowell
and had saddled the bill of costs upon the State
Treasury, to the extent Of some six dollars and
twenty-five cents, more or less! God save the Com
monwealth!
The House of Representatives including the cler-
gy thereof, were shocked, Mortified, and indignant
They were duly and minutely convinced, however
of the guilt of MIR. Hiss and so they have expelled
him almost unanimously. But here comes in the
really shocking part of the story. Mr.. Hiss pleads
that he has been too severely judged-hc has been
invidously condemned, and urges in palliation OF
his offence, that it is common thing among the law
makers of the indignant Massachusetts House of
Representatives He can, it seems show, if they
desire it, that from hundred to hundred and fifty
of his fellow MEMBERSHIP says nothing of the sixty
clergymen-are each, to some extent, as partial to
contraband liquor and females as himself. What
are to think of this? " hat will the good Maine
it? We call for a committee of investigation upon
this broad and general charge of Mr. Hiss. Where
there is so much smoke there must be some fire.
Will the House be content with sacrificing Mr.. Hiss
as the scape.goat of his guilty associates? MOI Let
the whole Legislature be purified. both with regard
to contraband females and contraband liquor.
These frightful and demoralizng discoveries in
the Legislature at Boston, have been almost equal
led. however, in their peculiar and Overstrained
morality, by some of the recent doings of our AL
bany law makers. They came down to New York
on an official VISIT headed by "a little villain Of
the most thorough-going puritancal pretensions to
good works. They went over to Backwers Island,
and there, according to the showing of their own
reporters, they mortified even the convicts of that
tenant Governor, who had pledged himself in favor
"of liquor law, but not the liquor law" led of,
and Assemblymen and Senators had glorious
spree. They kept it up bravely, and on returning
to the city they scattered with the shades of
evening into all sorts of mysterious and suspicious
holes and corners. Had general fire that night
broken out in Church Or Mercer street the police
of of the most sanity Pharisees of both hous
es strangely mixed up with bad liquor and the most
dangerous and case-hardened members of society, OF
both sexes Their frolic to the city being at last
brought close our legislators. convinced from what
they had experienced and seen of the necessity for
some bold measure Of reform, returned to Albany
and passed the act for the suppression of in temper
ance vice and crime" known as the liquor law
Now, the question arises, can the reforms Of such
teachers Of morality and temperance as those OF the
Massachusetts and New York Legislatures COM
mand the respec; and obedience of an intelligent
and honest peOpley Are they not rather calculated
to excite public contempt, disgust and resistance
Let the future answer for the consequences "a
corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit"