Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-09-10
For the Standard.
THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE

THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR VIC
For the Standard.
II" An Old Line Whig:"
= SIR: Your communication in the "Signal" of
the 10th ult., dated "Newbern, N. c., Aug, 1885,"
commences thus:
Mr.. Editor: am no scholar nor adept in lite.
rary matters; and therefore have never appear in
public; bat the present state of political affairs in
our country such to render it necessary that
every man should be up and doing"
Now, sir, knowing that you are the subject of
standing chronic disease, cannot account for
your thus making your debut You certainly must
have been ndulging in large doses of Fillmore pa
tent paper pills. K. N. medicine must have had
most wonderful effect upon your debilitated system,
else you never would have been induced now to
have begun a literary career, when you are in the
middle of life and amidst the various vlcssitudes OF
grocer. You must have forgotten that golden rule,
"mind your own business" to which you have pre-
tended to pay such Difference. But beg pardon;
you may have recently become candidate for the
degree of Bachelor of Arts; or you may have your
eye on the Legislature. Let me say to you, that the
young man who would succeed in obtaining these
ends must avoid meddling we'll as personal self
ishness for by doing this he may obtain these ends
and rise in life. You say, 6" 1t is, and has becn
question with great many Wings, where they
would 80, and to what party they could, most con-
sistently with their former principles. give their
dcd to go to their old enemies, the Democratic
party but the great body of them have determined
to stand by the American party, and vote for Mil
lard Fillmore"
1t has, indeed sir, been question with great
many Wings, to what party they could, most con-
sistenty with their former principles give their sup
port; and the great body of them have determined
to vote, not as you, sir-gravely assertion Mil
lard Fillmore, but, for James Buchanan; and this
they can do "witdout renouncing their old political
faith, without stan OF honor suspicion of dpostd-
co." Thousands of them, l am happy to say, enter
tain the sentiments of Senator Pratt, of Maryland
who says in his address to the Wings of that State
" deem it to be my duty, as well as that of all who
believe with me-and he is an old line Whg-to
unite in the support of Messrs Buchanan aud Brock
nridge and shall sustain their election to the best
of my ability" Also Senator Pearce from the same
State, who says in letter recently written by him,
81 think it would be the part of wisdom and patr-
otism in the Whigs-and he means old line Wings
not allied to any party-to throw their votes for Mr.
Buchanan. The motive being the integrity of the
Union, the defeat of party which is founded on
geographical determinations and bound together ~
dangerous sectional schemes. l cannot forget that
he Mr.. Fillmore is the candidate of party which
has prescribed Why's who aoere not members ef"Me
order of party which boosted that it had risen
OH the ruins of the Wing and Democratic parties,
and which has pronounced both Of them corrupt"
Again you say: l am, myself an old line Whig
and since my party has been dissolved have been
standing STILL awaiting the final result Of things, in
order to ascertain to which party should give my
support. The time has arrived WHEN l can make
that decision. / am Fillmore man to the hub, and
shall most certainly give him my support, and there
are thousands, trust, of old line Wings that are
determined to do the same"
cannot, for my life, sir, see how you can so bold
ly declare yourself to be Fillmore man to the hub
when, according to the regular routine of the Amer
lean party all old line Wings read out to make
way for third degree members of 1.-THE order" only,
in preference to all others. You say the Wing party
has been dissolved. Good. Then there is but one
reliable, national party in this country, and that is
the Democratic party. 1t is wonderfully strange
that you have been standing still awaiting the final
rcsul: of things, when you have, perhaps, never
failed to exercise your right of suffrage at any cleo
ton whatever. But you have, at last, stepped for
ward, in literary dress, and ANNOUNCED yourself ON
the political stage of action-"u up and doing" and
that as the time has now arrived when you can de-
eide how to VOTE you shall, "most certainly" vote
for Millard Fillmore. What wse-acre The time
has now arrived when you can decide how to vote.
Oh! now, what discovery! Have you been watch
ing at the hole? and now do you wish to inform
Mr.. Gilmer that you think you catch, or have
caught, that little e?' Have you gone mad?
In view of the large majority given to the Democrat
ic candidates. in this county, for the Legislature, and
of the overwhelming majority, of about thirteen
thousand, given to His EXceiiency, Thomas Bragg
over his competitor, Mr.. Gilmer, how any sane
man entertain, for one moment, the idea that Mr.
Fillmore can carry this State; especially as Mr. Gil
mer canvassed the State upon the same identical
principles on which Mr.. Fillmore now stands? The
inevitable conclusion is the principles defeated Gill
mer, and will defeat Fillmore. You certainly have
forgotten, sr-at least you deny-that the contest
is between Buchanan and Fremont, and that Fill
more is the weak candidate with chance at all
of being elected and will come off in November only
a second Gen. Scott. Why, he cannot carry a sin
gle Northern State, because abolitionism and Know
Nothngism allied there that Fremont will get
the vote you claim for him. And every true Wing
will, by no means, support Fillmore, simply because
it is necessary to have national man at the helm
of the ship of State-ts idle dream to assert he is
gaining ground South-it seems out of the question
for him to get elected. No. cir they will not vote
for him {; but they will vote for James Buchanan,
because he is the only national candidate of ma
tiona party and because they believe that, in his
election the safety of the Union lies Neither Mr..
Fillmore nor any other man that is member of the
order of the American Union can be truly nation
al man, since he must, before entering the order,
take the following question in the anteroom and
swer it in the affirmative: 6 Are you willing to use
your influence and vote only for native-born Amer.
lean citizens for all Offices of honor, trust, profit
in the gift of the people, to the exclusion of all for
eigners and aliens, and Roman Catholics in partic
utar, and without regard to party predictions ?"
Then, upon entering the council room, take the fol-
lowing as part Of the oath of secrecy: :" In the
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