Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-12-19
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RALEIGH, SATURDAY. DEC. Is, 1855.
"SAM" SAVING THE COUNTRY.

Know Nothing Sam y" SAM " fresh from the
people, with no thirst for office, and with wish
but for the public veal" Sam, " so eulogized by
Mr.. Ravner in his place in the Senate and almost
every where on the stump-"Sarn, with an oath
on his lips to be true to the Union, and to frown
down the abolitionists-" Sam, with the stars and
strpes floating over his head, as an emblem of his
Intense American nationality y" SAM" the un-
SELFISH the patriotic, the Union sarer-where is he?
By co onbning all the elements of disaffccton in the
Democratic party, North and South, and by the aid
Of the abolitonists of the free States, "Sam"
ried the House of Representatives by large major
i.y and the time for organizing that body having
arrived he presented his candidate for Speaker
The vote taken and out of one hundred and fifty
Of this opposition to the Democracy, thus gotten up
and arrayed under " Sans" influence, but tasenty
fire or thirty members showed themselves to be
ional men-and all of these but three were from
the South After baotns for many days, "Sam"
urged his friends to unite on Mr. Banks, a MasSa-
chusetts aDolitionst One hundred and seven Of
them hearkened to " Sam =" and did so; yet steep
ed in aboi.onism, hostile to the Constitutional
rights of the South is this Mr.. Banks, that not
one Of "Sam's" Southern friends has ventured to
vote for him. Willing, however, to oblige Sam,
and to keep him, if possible, little longer his
totering legs the most of these Southern friends,
including Messrs Puryear and Paine, of this State,
have gone as far North as they could by voting for
Mr. Fuller an anti i-Nebraskaite and the warm friend
of Gov johnson, the Pennsylvania abolitionist; but
Banks is the man after Sans" own heart and he
looks darky with his Northern face these South
ern friends, for not going the full hsureef0r desert
ing him in this time of need. "
What spectacle is here presented The House
| unorganzed for two weeks, with a Know Nothing
and opposition majority of over sixty-a majority
pointed to and exulted over, time and again, even by
Southern Know Nothings. The Democrats have
done all they could under the circumstances, to or
ganize. They have not only announced their prin.
ciples, in a Resolution which must command the ap
proval Of all good men in all portions of the coun-
] try, but they have presented for the Speakership
4 Gentleman every way fitted for the place, and who
is true as steel to the Constitution, to the Union,
3 and to the rights of the South. They cannot fuse
they cannot go over to the opposition-the respon
sblity for this state Of things is not upon them
a Though in minority, they arc in the right and we
trust they will stand where they are. -
a Just look Know Nothings of the South, and see
how your favorite Sam" is protecting your sec.
ton and saving the couptry. We hear nothing now,
q in Washington. about " bloody Popes and "igno-
! rlnt foreigners that was used by 'Sam' to de-
ceive the masses and to carry the elections but
Sans" cry now is, in the federal Cty-dO0n a'ith
the rights of the South in the common Territories
10 more slare States-aao pro-slarery alnints-
satons, like the present-repeal Of the tugitire-
'Sase Mu-slacery is SECTIONAL ind freedom nation
a. Who SO deluded and sunk now, in North Car
DINA, as to shout hurrah for Sam? ?"