Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-07-21

ouian harbariSIn,
blinded the mental eyes of those Southerners VINO
are aiding their brethren, Messrs. Seward, Wilson,
Greeley & Co., to bring about such very undesIra-
hIn state of affairs If this should not be the case,
they are either traitors fools II traitors, they
should be dealt with such and we surely must
call all those such, who, seeing the very destroying
tendency of certain principles still persist IN srV
ing to carry them out in order to further their per-
sonal ambton-such folks are of the i" rule or rum
order. But should they unfortunately be agnor0ms,
why all sensible people should have the Judg ment
to eschew their society," fearing lest they may oe put
in the same category. We VIII, however, Messls.
Editors, for charityS sake, place them amongst the
number of those whom GOD in His wisdom mas seen
fit to blind mentally in order to show forth HIS J"S-
tice hope and pray that He will not deal too Sc
yerely with them, but permit them to return to their
allegiance to Him and their country, after little
casteation at the baloboxes of the State, held for
State and federal appointments by the people.
have taken all the time contained in the number
of one and fourteen years to arrive at the con-
clusion that every citizen should give up some dar
ling pet scheme of political guidance and vote with
that party which has had and still have the most
consistent adherence to the fundamental principles
of our government; and do not think that any IN
diyidual should hold himself aloo from party organ
zation when he is c0n0inced that in the man that
that party is right merely from egotstical pride OF
opinion and belief that in essentials it may
have deviated from strict construction of the Con-
stitution." The same rule will apply to States
Rights; for State leave this Union with safe
ty to the rest of the confederacy to herself nor
sciJ she be per1nitted? Massachusetts may tanata-
else within her own borders much as she peases,
but when she sets up her will in opposition to the
Constitution, she will be sohippeG into 06etsence as
was South Carolina. The only separation that can
take place or brief only would be that of
the South from the North-we should then be weak
ened, and become like those miserable South Amer
lean mscallcd Republics; the liberties of the citi-
zens would be the prey of every designing deIna,
gogue and successful warrior, until at last we would
have taoo EMPIRES with dissolvng views of the
op6 anau Snccep6IDO
perors like those last days when Rome tottered to
its fall"
But pshaw we don't anticipate any such gloomy
future for the infant Republic; the people have too
often met the enemy under various disguises Anti
Masonic 'alien and sedtion laws, high protective
tariffs, national banks "Gaphinism, abolition
ISM Hartford Cenventionism,' coon skins, hard
cider roasted bulls, &C., haYe been all successful
ly met and vanqushed. The people of these Uni
ted States too knowing to be guled by any of
these DISCUSSES of capitalists to obtain undue lnt1u-
ence in the government. This last "lion's skin
which the monarch cal faction have put on don't
cover up the intentions sufficiently; it is too SMALL
the cars and the hOofS will manifest themselves The
people are not prepared to be slaves as yet-they
don't like that their religious opinions should be pre-
scribed by certain metcs and bounds, and that they
must drink cat and certain prescribed articles
Another thing they don't like is that their respecta
BILE brethren, who citizens by choice and not by
BIRTH should be reduced beneath the leceL OF Massa-
chusetts free negroes who can vote in that tunky
State; but Know Nothingism has deprived furrin-
ers " from voting in the land OF Hancock and Adams
What a retrograde motion that my country
menr Our folks think that those who have been
so lately, as furriners have, under the dominion
of the Beast are apt to recognize him under
whatever disguise, than those who have not seen him
for seventy -nc years. but only occasional stray
whelp like Know Nothingsnl " and the above men,
toned category.
Really one don't know what will happen these
latter days, for there is friend in Kinson, who is
every inch a gentleman, scholar and botanist, who
has got his mind soured by repeated defeats of his
par ty that he has gone and Dunn the very thing
his friends would never have dreamed he would do.
and that is published Know Nothing paper called
the American (pheN dvecate." Well, there is
no accounting for id1 racies; however, think
our worthy friend of Tribune, is applying the
right kind of treatment for his amentable case and
doubtless he will be restored to mental health and
usefulness. We only trust that the Tribune " will
make him good patriot" as himself, and then
we will be enabled to So to him, "Thou hast Dunn
we'll"
Rumor says that Colonel Ruffn has at last found
a real, live antagonist in the person of Thomas j.
Latham of Beaufort Co. Well, it is astonishing
how many disappointed politicians, Office seekers
and defunctbilities this faction has resurrec.
tiOnized! Whata pity to resusctate folks for the
purpose of burying them over again so speedily 1
think Ned Bsttlne and the Amgel Ga6rieI will have
to answer for this sin of disturbing the remains of
the departed. Why not let them rest in peace?
INDEPENDENT.
Newbern, July 18th, 1855.