Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-05-09

triotS OF '76 at Lexington and Bunker Hill with
Patrick Henry, {" the forest born Demosthenes,"
when he exclaimed Caesar had his Brutus, Charles
the first his Cromwell, and George the third may
profit by their example, if this be treason make the
most of it." with Jefferson and the sgners of the
Declaration of Independence; and with Washington
at Monmouth, Trenton and York town."
"What a long tail our cat has got!" What school
boy defamation ! Really, this is unworthy of Mr..
Miller. "Sam"-skulking, sneaking, oath-bound
SAM" Sam" with wide-awake hat and fash
vest on, two-cent cigar in his mouth, with thumb
on nose and straw in hand, ready for the suction
luxurously attendant on the next julip-" Sam
this parsonage with Noses and Cato, and Brutus
and Henry and gton!-contending too for
"cvil and religious freedom "-living in ante-diu
Wan clover-for surely he aided Noah in building
the ark-and exulting in long contnuities Of light
and glory from the days of the Pharaohs up to the
hour when the last cannon sounded at Yorktown ;
NOW so reduced in honor, and so wrought upon by
fears and suspicious, that he himself by the
most horrid oaths to deny every thing and know
nothing at all and full of the spirit of civil and
religious freedom (which he learned of course,
from of the Pharaohs in the shade of the Sphynx
that he makes himself trembling, servile subject
of oaths and penalties selfimposed, and denies to
all others the very rights of worship and of consci-
ence which he claims for himself! But Mr.. Miller,
we feel constrained to state has made one or two
slight mistakes in this delightful and thrilling history
of 60 Sam" "Sam" was with Catalinc the night
to which Mr.. Miller refers, and not with Cicero;
and he could not have been with I" the bold Barons
at Runnimede, for they scere Catholics. "Great
Pompey's shade" it is true, complained that" Sam
"was slow"-but the fact has recently fall en-
hot &C Son falli into fha fnurth fhato
casion-that is, into cellar, and could not come.
We admit, however, that Sam" has roamed with
old Romulus, ripped with old Eurpides, canted with
old Cantharides and socked with old Socrates. His
achievements in the cause of Protestantsm are
confessedy of the first water. We learn-and we
speak it with all respect and reverence-that the
next Fourth of July has been fixed upon the
commencement of the millennium; an event thou
sand years away but for "Sam" Then shall all
love one another with real Protestant American
ardor-there will be no more sin, sefishness,
nor scuif1ing for office,-no Catholics for
eigners; but every native shall have native fig
tree and a native Catawba native Scuppernong
grapevine to shelter him, and Sam" will proclaim
himself in his highest and last degree the moral
upbuildcr and regenerator of mankind This will
be spectacle to make every Protestant heart glad.
Mr. Miller, know will feel better for his devotion
to the Protestant religion knows no bounds. When
that day comes both he ant, Mr.. Rayner and Mr..
Ned Buntlen, and Mr.. Senator Wilson, and that
martyr Mr.. Hiss, of the Massachusetts, Legislature,
can smile complacently upon the scene and say,
"it is true we were about and lifted up our voices
and wept in the of Professionalism, and uttered
strong prayers and cries for its success-but SAM
did t!"
We learn from the Herald that Mr.. Miller SAC
knowledged himself Know Nothing they are
| called, member of the American Order; had taken
all the degrees in the Order and was fully cogni-
zant of all its aims and designs; and, said he, If
any man asserts that the Order has any abolition
tendencies, / tell him in his teeth he LIES" Mr..
Miller admits then that he has sworn upon the cross
of the Son of God-and that too in secret, when no
human eye but that of his coconspirators was upon
him-to prescribe from Office, and to keep out OF
Office adopted citizens and persons not Protestants
who worship God according to the dictates of theiI
own consciences and to obey the majority of hi:
Order ''n all things, political Social" with Ger
tain reservations and this in the face of the Consti
tuition of his State, to say nothing of the fedora
Constitution, under which the adopted citizen ha!
never been heretofore vexed prosecuted ant
which secures to Catholics full rights, civil ant
political, as the Protestant can claim If we un
derstand his position correctly, he would not chang
the Constitution in this respect but he aoou prac
ticay make cold at the polls the rights it
Catholics What mockery oftruth and justicel
Mr. Miller says that man "lies" who charges tina
the Know Nothing Order "has any abolition tenden
cies" Fortunately for the cause of truth, it is no
necessary to refer to the Tendencies" of the Orde
the results, the fruits show for themselves. Thes
fruits are beyond all question, those of abolitionsr
of the rankest and most alarming character. w
see them in the election of Pollock as Governor
Pennsylvania-n the election of Gardiner as Gove
nor of Massachusetts, the election of Morrill,
! Governor of Mane-in the election of Dutton
Governor of Connecticut-in the election of Metca
as Governor of New Hampshire-in the election
Wilson to the United States Senate-in the course
the Massachusetts, Legislature towards Judge l.
ring, in voting to deprive him of his Judgeship b
cause he aided in enforcing the fugitiveslave law
in the passage of antisavery and anti Constitution
Resolutions by the Legislatures of Maine Massach
setts and New York-in the election of so large
number of members of the next Congress, who a
governed by abolition sentiments, and who will tai
their seats, and constitute majority of the Hous
determined to repeal the fugitive-save law, re-esta
lsh the Missouri restriction, and abolish slavery
the District of Columbia. 1.-THE tree is known by
y fruits" Let the people look and judge for thel
u selves. Mr. Mller's harsh language will pass
u nothing the facts seen and known of all men, a
~ against him.