Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-11-01

Chairman that during the early part OF the session,
you reporters desk was occupied by queer looking
New York editor, an unfortunate specimen OF ma
lures handicraft, living libel on humanity, who,
day after day, to be seen loungtng with aPpar'
ent listessness there like certain foul old bird on
the boughof dead tree. That eccentric individual
exercised despotic away over certain class OF MEM
bers his peculiar followers here, and thundered
through the columns of the Tribune his snathemas
against such of them were so unfortunate as to
incur his displeasure. To offend him was political
death to them The circulation Of his paper was
extensive in their districts, and the faminaons OF
his brain passed for gospel truth among their con-
stituents. As consequence, these " freedom
shriekers gloried in his smiles and trembled at his
frowns his cdict their law he was the Conrad
of the crew, and his soul animated them all. Though
they hated and feared, they dared not disobey him.
There a laughing devil in his s1eer,
That raised emotions both of rage and i lear
And where his frown of hatred darky fell, -
Hope w,herug fed, and mercy sighed-farewell"
Let US now look for awhile to the manner OF leg.
slatng here All sorts OF trickcry have been rcsor-
ted to rules have been violated and the freedom OF
debate, in many instances, suppressed; the pre-
vious question has been sprung upon the House IN
season and out of season, and an inscriptions ma
orty has ordered it. time and again. to prevent dis
cusson on the most important questions, thus pros
ttuting rule, intended for wise purposes to the
base uses of party.
To manufacture political capital for the presiden-
tial campaign committee was sent to Kansas; and,
as was anticipated by every rejecting man versed in
the affairs of that Territory, civil war followed IN Its
wake. The majority in this House is responsible
for much of the blood that has been unnecessari-
" shed in Kansas Immediately after the passage
of the Nebraskakansas law slavery agitators in the
North commenced that system of tactics that has
produced so much difficulty in Kansas. That aSita-
ton has caused the untmely death Of many poor
squatter both pro.savery and ants,avery men, who,
far distant from home and kindred now lie in their
cold and bloody graves in the wilderness where the
wolf of the forest hOws their requiem and the OWL,
the iboding bird of night shrieks their death-dlrge
But what do men who ride into power on slavery
agitation care for these things? | have no doubt
they would be willing to the plains of Kansas
drenched in human gore, if they could thereby get
control of the Federal Government
Mr.. Chairman, let US pass to another chapter IN
the history of black Repub!icanism in this House,
Representatives sent here by the people have been
harasscd, hunted down, and in effect, driven from
this Hail. for entertaining political principles anaS-
onistic to those Of u majority here. 1es sir; mem-
bers, pandering to the morbid appetite of northern
fanaticsn, have deprived South Carolina OF two OF
! her Representatives on this foor-Nessrs- Brooks
and kett Illinois, too, has been deprived OF one OF
her Representatives Mr.. JAS c. Allen, to subserve
the ends of party in total disregard Of right and
tice. Even now, this party is hunting some pretext
10 deprive Iowa Of one Of her Representatives, Mr..
! liail.l To cap the Climax majority of this House
has declared Gen. Whitfield the Delegate from Kan
/ elected in strict conformity to law. Eighty-eight
! members of that majority not satisfied with
| thwarting the wishes OF the people of Kansas to
/ who should be their Delegate, but SO blinded
by prejudice and impervious to reason, to record
! their votes in favor Of the admission OF Andrew H.
Reeder, whom they sought to thrust on the people
of Kansas as their Delegate-an individual with no
better title to the seat than the in the moon.
| Recently this House attached amendment to
the Army appropriation bill Ubiquitous in its incep
nl.,f,nn it,
we'll known can, in no contingency whatever, pass
the Senate If the black Republicans in this House
conspre together to stop the wheels Of Government
they have the power to do it. But, Mr.. Chairman,
it occurs to ME there is no necessity to appreheud
danger from this {; when the ":ug of war; comes,
they will back out from their position; they will not
dare to refuse the necessary appropriations to carry
On the Government. When they realize the fact
that they cannot effect THEN object BY buster and
: gasconade, sufficient number Of them will dodge
! out Of The way to let the bill pass They say to the
! Administration, to the Sepate, and to the national
men this floor, If you don't do this, don't do
that, We will withhold the supplies" An accidental
majority IN this House is striving to usurp the pow
ers of coordinate branches Of the Government
They have, Of late, invented way Of multiplying
and resisting laws As good citizens, they should
conform and submit 10 the laws of the count y; they
should not forget the good old maxim Of the Roman
patriot and statesman, kyun deni4ue idcircO
serei su,nus, ut Hberi esse possimus
: Such is the excmplihcatlon of black Republican,
ism in this House. Judge OF the whole party by the
specimen here exhibited. 'Er re,s Ue,culem -
Had it the control of the Govern ent what eiormi.
ties would it not practice? This is the party that
aspires to rule this great country But gentlemen
may rest assured that it never will be done; John
e. Fremont will never occupy the executive chair of
/ the United States.
/ Another party making some claims to nationality,
has nominated Mr. Fillmore for the Presidency
This, the American, or Know Nothing party, at one
time boosted Of much strength, and claimed to have
arisen on the ruins of the Wing and Democratic
parties Within the brief period of its existence it
has changed its principles so often, and assumed
many protean shapes, that shall not now under
| take to describe it. As a party, it has become
" tertium quid "a nondescrpt-and dwindlcd into
| comparative nsignifcance. shall make but few
remarks about it my time is short, and shall not
larry to say long grace over scanty repast. The
party has proved woeful failure. At one time it
boosted that 1t was the great conservative party of
the country that it was for the maintenance of the
| Union as the paramount political good" and that
it had elected from the northern States ninety
national and conservative to this House
Where nine tenths of these northern national
Know Nothings now? Echo answers whereof
Where were they when the contest for Speaker was
| decided? can tell you, sir just where they are
now-drlling in the black Republican camp-march.
ing under the flag with sixteen stars, and keeping
step to the grating music of disunion. Ofthose once
claimed as national men, more than nine out of ten
now stand on the Union sliding PLATFORM among the
most implacable enemies of the South.
The organization of the Know Nothing party at
the North has been used to strengthen, black Re-
Publicansm, only a small fragment of it remaining
that at this time, lays any claim to nationality Let
US see what leading Know Nothing paper, the Al
oany Register, says ON this subject:
If Fremont is elected the country will owe the
american party debt Of gratitude for it is not do
other ad If free IN