Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-06-21

encourseinr than during any previous period, trea-
ties end conventions having already been conciuded,
during three years past with some halt dozen pow.
while active negotiations are penqlng WIN most
Of the other governments where we mantain diplo-
matte relations for securing general OF
those wise maxims of International economy and
universal law, and for fixing their observance upon
= permanent and immutable basis
;. Raleigh, June, 1856.
MEssRs. ED1roRs The federal, national republic
can, Wbig Know Nothing party have an advantage
of us unsophisticated Democrats which think you
ought to tax your ingenuity to countervai You set
yourselves up as watchmen and guides for us, and
We have right to expect this service at least an
attempt to perform it from you. l allude to their
superior skill and dexterty in taking in and packing
voters. They seem to have caught most valuable
and convenient idea from thatremarkably ingenious
people, the Chinese These, it is known, have the
most dense population Of any on the earth and with
q view economist space are said, when they 60 to
bed, to lie heads and tGib just as see our pigs
do. And by way of parenthesis may not this sinili-
tude have suggested the fashion to the Chinese and
produced their fondness for wearing pigtails? Now,
in the bed, which the aforenamed party with the
long name have constructed for American voters to
lie in, they have put Know Nothing Wing Fillmore
at the head and Democratic Doneson at the foot
that is heads and tails. Now, if Democrat ap-
proaches at the Wing end of the bed and objects to
getting IN on account OF us not Oeng the platform
to suit him, the keepers say to him, "walk around
dear sir, and you will find place to suit you exact
ly." A short circuit takes him to the other end of
the bed where finding brother Doneson, in he slips
as cosy as bridegroom and pace oersG with Wing.
1t is true that some difficulty occasionally arises in
relation to the Gas happened in the time of Tip
and Ty, and at the late K N. Convention at Phila-
delphia, not to mention other occasions) for when
the heads and the tails both want the cover (ofce
and spoils) at the same time, and the two ends
pretty equally matched in strength, the sheets are
apt to suffer or if one, being stronger than the
other, takes all the cover, some things apt to
come in view that ought to be kept hid. Vide pro-
ceedings of our present Congress, &C., &c. Mr..
Reade in his recent address to the people Of his dis
trict intimates willingness to occupy the same plat
form with the Democrats-provded they will give
him and his friends one half of it. How modest in
him not to claim more. And as those who made the
Democratic platform fashioned it so that all who
cupy it are obliged to lie the same way, l do hope
you will try.to do something for their accommoda
ton. Mr. Peasants, former Editor of the Richmond
Whig once said that the Wings could not abide the
scent of odoriferous Democrats in the Richmond
Capitol after warm weather set in and as Mr.. Reade
and friends may be deferred from joining for some
such reason, you authorized to promise for me
and thousand others, that if Mr. Rcade and friends
will give us their aid in the coming Presidential cleo
ton, We will eat more garlic, drink no whskey,
and put on a clean shirt every day until after the
election is over. SUIT LOVEGOOD.