Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-11-01
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To the Know Nothing Lodges Generally.


To the Know Nothing Lodges Generally.
Having become satisfied that did wrong in join
ing your order would ask permission to withdraw
from it. Before became member was induced
to believe that the Know Nothing order, since chang
ed to that of American, national in its charac-
ter, and that it would accomplish what :he two great
parties of the Countrywide Democratic and Wing
parties-had failed o accomplishments Quieting OF
slavery agitation and preserve and render more Sc
cure the Union of the States. l was moreover in
duced to believe that the and purposes OF the
order would not conflict with the principles oil
Democrat. But there have been sufficient develop
ments to satisfy me that in all these particulars
was deceived.
have no reason to doubt that the members of
the order are national in their senments-its their
obvious interest to be So; but that the northern
members are strongly ant-slavery and sectional IN
their feelings and sentiments no man can doubt who
is not blind to the food of light which the proceed
nes of the present Congress and those Of the Know
Nothing Council at Philadelphia, and other North
ern Conventions, shed upon the country. With =
controlling Know Nothing majority in the House of
Representatives rank aboltonist Speaker who void
sooner "let the Union slide than that abolitionism
should fail in its objects elected-less than half
a dozen members of the order from non siavehoading
States making pretence to nationality by declining
to vote for him. But they, too. when it was obvi-
GUS their votes might defeat him and secure the ell
ection of Gov Aiken, a truly national man. and .
polished and distinguished gentleman, refused to
vote for him and thereby aided in electing Banks.
After the division which took place in Philadelphia
last summer, seceders from that Convention held
Convention in New York and nominated Fremont
for President and Johnson of Pennsylvania, an open
and avowed abolitionist for Vice President In In
diana the abolitionists and Know Nothings have
nominated the same Electoral ticket In the recent
Maine election the Fillmore men united with the ab-
olitionsts to defeat the Democratic State ticket and
there are indications of similar union against the
Democratic ticket IN Pennsylvania These and 9TH
er facts which might be mentioned 90 to show that
the Northern Know Nothings are sectional in their
feelings and are as hostile to the rights of the South
as the aboitionists themselves The very fact that
Mr.. Fillmore and his Northern supporters denounce
and abuse the present able administration and the
Democracy, both North and South, and the South.
ern Wings who aided in passing the Kansas.Ne-
braska bill, and repeating the unjust Missouri re-
striction, indicates sympathy in political sentiment
and indirectly aids their cause. Being q Southern
man and ardently attached to the Union Of the
States as the main source of the unexampled in
crease and prosperity of the American people,
cannot CO operate with party whose candidate for
the Presidency, as well his Northern supporters
indirectly aids the black Republican or disnnion
party. To do SO would be- in my Judgment moral
treason, not only to the South but to the whole
American people: for in the pending contest the
cause Of the South is the cause of the whole coun-
Try. To do SO would be doing violence to the po.it.
ical sentiments I have heretofore entertsinsd and
ssila 0tertain. and upon which I have herstofore
acted hops. therefore. shall b permitted to