Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-04-16

these facts because we have been charged with un.
der-estimatng the number of delegates, which we
guessed at $780, The Secretaries say that other del
egates in after the organization of the Conven-
ton. The number must have been small, for the
Convention was not organized until after the arrival
of the cars that day. A few County delegates might
have come in afterwards. We think dozen or
twenty more is liberal allowance. We recollect
we'll that the Secretaries announced at the opening
of the Convention, that 1tyJSoe Counties were rep
resented and we were told during the day that del
egates had arrived from two or three other Coun-
ties yet the official proceedings signed by the Pres
ident and both the temporary and permanent Secre-
tarics, make the number only Jortyre, six ofwhich,
as before stated, were by proxies When we 60 in
search of truth and fair dealing, Know Nothing
Convention is the very last place to which shall
apply for either
But the patform-we must give it! Surely the
committee had herculean task, supposed it
would. We recollect an old fable about a mons and
a mus but have nearly forgotten our Latin, and
will present the platform in the English used by its
trainers We presume it will be generally circulated
in the Choctaw, Cherokee and Catawba languages,
as these are the "raw native" languages of the
country. Hear, o ye wave dashed shores of the At
lantic, and give ear, ye blue mountains of the
West, while we record the mighty platform of
"Sam," merely promising that the "Raleigh clique"
selected the President of the Convention, and the
Greensborough clique" selected the candidate
But here is the platform:
a. Resolred, That we are in favor of progress
sive system of Internal Improvements; such will
ultimately develop the resources of the State, and
such as will not burthen the people with oppressive
taxation.
3 Resozred, That we are opposed to the policy of
General Government squandering the public lands
to provide homesteads for foreign paupcrs and con-
victs."
Here, we presume, the committee caved in, and
Victor c. Barringer, Esq, came to its rescue and
turned Mr.. Gilmer completely inside out with the
following:
"WHEREAs, There exist various and conflicting
opinions among Wings and Democrats, mark that
-" WINS and Democrats the X. Ms have no
opinion at all both as to the proprety of amending
the State Constitution well to the manner and
extent to which amendments should be made:
Resolred, That in order that the paramount priE.
cples Tin Heavens name what are they 2 of Amer
icanism [oh may not be trameled in the ensuing
contest by vexcd State questions made up by for
mer political organizations, the American party,
chewing sectional issues in the State as we'll as in
the Union, declare their purpose of abiding by and
maintaining the representative basis of the present
Constitution"
There it all is-in nut she'll, that needs not to
be cracked 1t will crack ITSELF In fact, it is al
ready cracked, and deception, non-committasm,
humbuggery, and nothing are exposed.
THE " AMERICAN ORDER" IN INDIANA.
The following manifesto, by the President of the
"Amercan Order" in Indiana, we find in the Nation
al Inteligencer which justly says that it "looks to-
ward fusion of the Opposition in that State' Mr..
Sheets is the individual who in the Philadelphia
Know-Nothng Convention, said that no harm could
from the platform, as it was such of ver-
bage that the Presidential election would be over
before the people could understand what the plat
form meant. And yet Southern X. Ms arc acting
with Sheets and his associates of the free States!
INDIANAPOLIS, April 9, 1856.
To the Members of the american Party Of Indiana:
At meeting of the Executive Committee of the State
Council, held at indianapolis the I'd day of April 1885,
that have divided and distracted the party 9TH
er States the committee unanimously adopted the following
suggestions and earnestly request the true friends of
cansm to with them in carrying out the views
of the committee
That as in 1854 we stand uncompromsnglv opposed to
the present national Administration and party we stand
ready to cooperate with any party which aims to put
end to its misrule
promise an nflaction of the pighed faith of the nation
tie same Should be restored and if efforts to that end fall
Congress should refuse under aNcrcunstdnc admit Gny
State into the Union torating slacery made free BY that
compromise.
Therefore approve of the call for Peoples Conven-
ton held on the Isl day of May next and earnestly call
on the American party throughout the State to send full
WIN. SHEETS. Pres't
Attest: W. W. WRIGHT
Such is our candidate, Willard Flmore-sound in body,
mind and politics, and such he is away towards
Jerusalem enjoying himself. ITM Herald.
The Herald says nothing about Mr.. Fillmore hav-
ing been at Rome "hobnobbing with the Pope"
and "dancing attendance on Popish ceremonies
Mr. Fillmore, it seems, instead of moving towards
the White House in Washington is journeying "to-
wards Jerusalem" We predict that he will either
decline the nomination or "tarry at Jericho for
many days, making Sans" heart C) sick with
"hope deferred"
HAw RIVER HoUsE.-We congratulate travellers
on the N. G. Railroad on the assurance of a good
breakfast at the above house, lately erected by Gen.
Irolnger. 1t is very large and elegant house. and
when completed. will be furnished with all the con-
venences of first class hotels Among other things
e'e'y iooi" Will De suppned with excellent water,
according to the very latest improvements. To
those who know Gen. T., his enterprise and indus
try, it will be useless to say he will do things up
right
We learn that the annual address, before the two
Literary Societies of Wake Forest College will be
delivered by B. F. Moore, Esq, of Raleigh, on We'd
nesday, 18th Of June, and the Sermon before the
graduating Class by Rev. E. T. Winkler, of Charles.
ton, S. c., in the evening of the same day:
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