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LETTER FROM PfNEBUR M0CoAsN.
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MoccAsnynLE, n G., May 20, 1856.
M. Prjnturs OF the STANDARD
I've bin tryin for ever SO long to write you let
ter about the two Know-nuthin' Philadelphy plat
forms; but menny little local things has claimed
my attenshun that have kept putin it off till now.
I've got both the platforms before me now, and
see they both agree in one article, and that is their
belief in Supreme Bein'. I blieve that too, and
it's all the wuss for the Know. nuthns that there is
Supreme Bein'. They profess to have nuthin but
new principles, and s'pose this is a new one to
them. e
This is the only pint of agreement between the
two platforms that can see. The one of June goes
for ian intense American feelin'," but the one of
FEBRUARY ses nuthin' about any SIGH feein'. The
of June is in favor of an, "essenshal modi6cashun
of the naturalizashun laws" and we didn't know
whether they wanted to limit the time to weeks
or extend it to 600 years but the one Of FEBRUARY
of 81 years.
In June they was all Disguised with the wild
hunt after offs; but by FEBRUARY they had got
that, and we hear nuthin' of any squeamishness
about their s.umachs on that score. Why the
Know-nuthin's up here in the mountains had their
regular committys in every Capt'n's district last
fall hunt up voters. They jest secured the coun-
try in " wild hunt after offs That 'wild hunt
and the scarcity of corn made more poor bosses up
here than all the plowin' dun by Know-nuthins.
In June they was down on Roman Catholics like
pourin' peas on dry rawhide but in FEBRUARY they
took Roman Catholics into their conveEshun, and
didn't say word agin them in their platform In
June they sed they had ris up the ruins and in
spite of the opposition of all other parties but in
FEBRUARY they say no SIGH thing. In June they in
vted furreners TO our shores but in FEBRUARY they
turn right round and say they opposed to furre
ners comm over here.
In June they had 18th sccshun that recognized
slavery part of our sosha sistem, and the rights
of shareholders as guaranteed by constitushun
and laws; but in FEBRUARY they struck that out and
inserted 18th secshun that smells nifty strong of
abolishunism to Suthern noses The Northern Know
nuthin Black Republicans did it in spite of Suthern
men; and yet we see Suthern men there submittin
to it. and here in our State, at the Greensboro
convenshun, them endorsn' and reaffirmin'
that very 18th secshun, thus lickin' the boots of
their Northern narsters, and by their insane hatred
to the Dimicratc party givin up the rights of the
South and their own equality in the Union
Why every Suthern did not leave the Phila
delphy conveushun when that 18th secshun was
crammed down their threats by northern aboshun-
ists can only be accounted for by supposn they too
had aboshun tendencies. or else SO hated the Dim-
icratc party so loved offs and power, that they
willin' to sacrifice their secshunal intrests and
the rights guaranteed to them by the consttushun,
in order to obtain power and spiles and put down
their political opponents. How the Greensboro
convenshun could endorse and reaffirm that secshun
know not, except that its members were bound by
their oaths to submit to and ratify whatever their
grand council dictated; else like that Mr.. Horton
that made speech in New York last year, they
preferred abolishun doctrines and thought the
equality of the South with the North outrage to
which the North ought not to submit"
By endorsn' this secshun in their fust State con-
venshun the Know-nuthin' party of North Carolina
has leagued itself with Northern aboshunists and
made compact with freesoilsm. They have adopt
ed that which northern fanatics forced upon the
I'll. III 9th
unanimously at Philadelfy agin secshun that is
voted for unanimously at Greensboro? What change
had cum the sperits of the dreams of Suthern
men? Was there at Greensboro a local antslave-
ry influence that shaped their eends?
What did the repeal of the Missouri compromise
do? 1t simply allowed Southern men to carry their
niggers into territory from which they was before
excluded by act of Congress That is the whole
effect of it and it's passin' strange to me that
Southern man that has any self respect can object
to it. But it's not much surprsin to me that know
nuthins thus act; for men that creep secretly, at
dead of nights into dark holes and take black oaths
to surrender up their freedom, must be wantin' in
that self respect essensha to liberty good govern
ment and the rights of freemen.
In June they sed nuthin about oaths and oblga-
shuns; but in FEBRUARY they say "pledges Of honor"
may be instituted insted of other obgashuns for
fellowship. Now it's my opinion that them's gwine
to be nifty few and slender pledges, for don't be-
lieve they've got enuff Of the material among
them to make menny, and they stand poor chance
of gittin' more when their present small stock is
gone. Men that has SIGH little self respect As to
think their own equality with the North is outrage
to which tile North oughtnt to submit, ant likely
to add much honesty to their ranks
The fust platform was bad enuf but the last one
is much wuss; and about next June reckon they'll
make another still wusser. They make their plat
forms outn SIGH mean, rotten stuff that they don't
last long. Yourn till deth,
PINEBUR MOCCASIN.
ELECTORAL VOTE OF SEVERAL STATEs.-The