Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-05-28

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pf New York, improved his time in perfecting q
scheme, secret plan, shrouded in oaths and NUM-
meries of various kinds, for establishing political
party to rule the destines Of this Republic By an
act Of american Brotherhood executive clemen-
cy he came forth from his prison walk wtht among
his congenial spirits and put the ball in motion I'm
.aerthe grandiioquent titles of Supreme or.
der of the Star Spangled Banner" and " The Sons
Of the Sres of '7e ~ he ihauga the birth #
"Sam." He and his myrmidons lifted from town
to town, from village to village, aud from State to
State and with zeal and perseverance that would
have been commendable in good cause, they spread
the doctrines of "Sam," bowed down and worship-
ped SAM" and crowned "Sam :" king In the
darkness of night, when honest men were sleeping,
was this spurious SAM adding to his strength. SET
That this was the origin of Know Nothingism is
placed almost beyond doubt, The chain of cir
cumstantial evidence is almost, if not quite, COM
plete and it may be regarded as conclusive, mas
much as Know Nothngs, though denying this orr
GIN haze shooon no other. q. .."es;ni
This Ned Buntline," alias Judson, is now, or
was very recently an abolition lecturer in the North
ern States and in Canada his design no doubt be-
ing to unite the British provinces with the Free
State abolitionists, in crusade against the South
Oh
that has nothing to lose and who would reyel over
the ruins Of the Republic provided he thereby OBJ
tanned women and wine." An abandoned wretch,
prolgate libertine and sensual devotee, he cares
for nothing but the indulgence of his own base ap.
petites. Lost to honor and to every manly i'm
propagate the doctrines OF Know Nothingisn, with
its bgotry, intolerance, deception prevaricaton and
hypocrisy, accompanied by God-forbidden oaths, de-
testable ceremonies, and chains of the most AFFECT
political slavery. The Improvement on Buntlne's
plan, by the addition of third degree, with other
oaths and mummeries, showed an imitator as will
ling, if not so able, the orig inator himself.
Here then, we have the origin of this modern
SAM alias "United American Brotherhood" alias
''Snprcme Order of The Star Spangled Banner, alias
"Sons of the Sires of TO- alias +" The American
Party for they have found it necessary to change
their names about often :hcy do their shifts,
and for the very same reason:-to get rid Of dirty
one and obtain another yet unsoed.
And now We have this party of aliases in full OPP
Grafton. Contrast it with the present Wing party.
Instead of Clay and Webster, behold George Law
and Kenneth Rayner Instead of giants, behold
pigmics Instead of men striving for the ascenden-
cy of great principles, behold motley of bro
ken down political hacks and disappointed office
seekers, calling to their aid few low, degrading,
but somewhat popular prejudices and ready to run
riot the constitution, in order to obtain power
and emoluments, or in order to wrcak revenge upon
former political comrades for not promoting them.
Look at the great lights the Wing party in North
themselves by crawling under culvert, and some
of whom are openly and independently acting with
the Democratic party. We may instance Badger,
Mangum, Graham Morehead, Manly, Kerr, Cling
man-all honored by the Wing party with high and
responsible trusts. In their place we find the lead
ers of the new party such men as James Is. Shep-
ard, Andrew jackson Steadman, and David Reid, Of
ni,pi all nsmocrafS
office-hunters Rogers and Puryear, who voted
against the equality of the South with the North;
laughton who says that that equality is degrading
to the North to such extent that the North ought
not to submit to it; Gilmer who has uniformly OPP
posed Free Suffrage and who showed his anti-Amer-
lean feelings in time of the Mexican war; and a
batch of others, all apostates and whose apostacy
in almost every instance, may be traced to causes
not calculated to add to their reputation either as
men patriots Processing disgust for the
wild hunt after Office, they mightier hunters
than Nimrod himself In search of their game
an c1ice-they climb the mountains Of corruption;
they hang upon the beeting crags of bigotry and
plunge into the dark ravines of deception. Profess
sing an aversion to foreigners they invite them on
the stand to speak for Know Nothingism when they
can find one mean, so degraded so Heaven-torsa-
ken and heapproved, as to renounce all pride OF
manhood all honesty, and all self-respect, and sell
himself for less than Judas obtained for his treason
receive Roman Catholics into their councils, admit
them to their conventions; and some of them even
marry Roman Catholic wives and send their children
to Roman Catholic schools! Afraid of the poor old
man called Pope Plus TX, lest he should overturn
our government and destroy our liberties when they
know he is propped upon his own throne by French
bayonts they yet nominate, as their candidate for
the Presidency, man who at the time the nomna-
ton is made, is - hobnobbng" with the Pope, re-
ceivng his Inequalities, and for all know, court
ing his influence in favor Of Know Nothingism.
And yet this is the party that contains all the
The bee sucking honey from the poisonous flower,
they have extracted the quintessencc Of the old
" corrupt rotten parties and 10! that quintessencc
is purity! From the corrupt and rotten" ruins
Of the Wing party they have evolved the shadow of
Gen. Taylor for President; and from the like ruins
the shade of the shadow of Gen. Jackson's wife for
What mighty chemists they are!
With their assistance it is highly probable that that
Louis Napoleon, who spent so many
years of his life in vain search for the Philoso-
piers Stone" might yet he successful trust that
bis majesty, having gotten through with his baby
affairs will next consider this matter; and If he
should conclude to invite few of our prominent
Know Nothings to Paris, why, think We can very
we'll spare them.
But we have seen some of the fruits of Know
Nothingism. We have seen what it brought forth
in the pride of its strength and in the zenith OF its
ephemeral existence. In old abolition Massachusetts,
It first got into power. The history of its first Know
Nothing legislature is familiar to us all The cele-
brated Hiss committee" is damned to the same
fame that awaits Know Nothingism Under au-
thority of that legislature, parcel of sensual,
drunken, beastly men invaded the privacy of help
less and unoffending females; and with obscene
language and actions degraded themselves beneath
the level of brutes. This was among the I" first
fruits" of Know Nottingham Next we see it achiev.
ing its most brilliant in Louisville, KY, the
Of its warfare heinz the knif the revolver