Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-11-12
Mr. rillmore ] /. streneth,

Oo's'So NV AoAeSsiys NV iaTiy not Dy Inc peace
full exercise by freemen of the right of sdfrage-but
by threats, intimidation and wholesale slaughterl-
These eight votes are saturated with blood Seven
or eight murdered men and boys, and seventy-five
cruelty wounded in the City of Baltimore will be
the record which will go down to posterity as part
of the Know Nothing achievement which resulted in
these eight votes. Know Nothingism began in Sc
cret and got strength, and exued in it for season.
by the strife which it engendered between races and
religions; and it has made its first showing of Eec-
toral votes in blood-the legitimate consequence of
its doctrines and practices. But it is weak now in
the free States, because black Republicanism alb
sorbed and it thus absorbed because its mem.
bers there bitterly as they hated the naturalized
citizen and the Catholic, hated tho Southern szave-
holder still more. Behold, then the consequences
of Know Nothingsm as thus far revealed-feuds and
fghtings between of men and strife among the
followers of Christ! blood riot and murder at the
ballot-boxes in Baltimore Louisville, and New Or
leans land black Repubcansm and disunionism
in all their hideousness, in the free Statesl "By
their fruits ye shall know them"
This national candidate, Mr.. Fillmore, has recev.
ed, for example, about 900 votes in Maine, about
800 in New Hampshire, about 800 in Vermont, about
5000 in Connecticut, &c. This is his strength in
the free States-in that region of the Union where
conservatism and nationality are most needed
Yet there are Fillmore men in the free States who
have exhibited in this contest spirit of patriotism
and nationality, which puts to the blush many of the
Fillmore party in this section of the Union. We
refer to those who in the City of Boston voted for Col
Greene for Congress against the abotonist Comins
and to others, in the city, who united with the
Democrats in the effort to defeat Burlingame Look,
too, to that glorious gain for Buchanan in Phadel-
pha of fifteen thousand potes, rendering it certain
that many Fillmore men, opposed to fusion with
the abotonists, must have voted wi tn the Demo
Gratis. 1t was in vain that Mr.. Rayner harangued,
and magned the Democrats the more he talked
for fusion the more firmly the honest and patriotic
portion of the Fillmore fixed in their pur-
pose to vote for Buchanan. They saw no chance
for Mr.. Fillmore-they would not fuse with Fremont
and they cast their votes where they would tell
for the Constitution and the Union.
Let us be told no more, therefore, about Mr. Fill
more's popu larity or the nationality of 'sSam's"
party; and whenever you hear Know Nothing
boastng of the strength and the nationality of his
faction just remind him of the vote of Maryland and
of Mr.. Fillmore's 800 votes in Vermont
HThe New York Times, one of the leading Or
gans of Fremont, takes the following view of the
Presidential Election
"In Nev-EngIand New-York, Ohio, and the Western
States generally with the exception of Indiana Fremont
100000 The whole Republican State ticket is elected
the Republicans have at least 80 of the 2S members of the
to succeed HAslL1os they have 81 Of hs SO
Members OF Congress. The Fremont majorites of the
western and central counties The American
Party seems to have been generally betrayed and de
serted by its leaders, and thousands of its members voted
directly for BUCHANAN The Fillmore vote of the State
half mIlion-they have lost every Congressional Dis
trictand the only consolation the leaders of this party
have left in the reflection that they have Pennsy
vana to Mr. Buchanana solace which the great body of
their followers will not share
1t is not often that defeated party is left solid and
strong position that which the Republicans the
Union occupy They have contested the ground with
rare vgor and energy, and ior new
fcutes and entanged by haaances, which brought
tain weakness with only faint promise of compensatng
strengthhey have certainly achieved extraordinary
results They have almost consolidated the North-and
inclined believe that their candidate will be found
to have received decided plurality Of the popular cote OF
the Union"
The Times is the same paper that so highly eulo-
gized Mr.. Rayner for his efforts to induce the Fill
more men of Pennsylvania to unite with Fremont.
1t is an abolition sheet In striking contrast with
land (Maine) Argus. Bear in mind that Mr.. Ray
ner, a Southern Know Nothing, went to Philadel-
phia to advocate union between the Fillmore and
Fremont men, to defeat such Democrats in the free
States as the Editor of the Portland Argus who
"swears eternal enmity to Black Republicans" and
who has resolved "to work increasingly to exter-
inmate the nest of poisonous serpents which it
hatchcs" We would trust the Democrats of Maine
who are thus working and who are thus spoken for
by the Argus, long, long before we would such Sou
them Mr.. Rayner and those who justify him !:
"The vote of Maine against statesman and patriot like
James Buchanan will hereafter venture to predict be
of shame to her people will be pointed at as the
melancholy consequence of wild anatcism, and few will
BUT Maine stands not alone. Her elder sister Massa
chusets, well claim to be the 'vrago State in this
senseless folly for gives to John Fremont
eer We yield the honor rather the dshonor, to her
Maine longer leads inamy She must give preced
cites open rebellion against the constitutional authorities
Massachusetts, has been the breeding hobed Of nearly all
of the vagares that have disturbed the Of
cety and led this country to the of dsuniOn It is
most fitting that she should stand out the foremost sup
porter of the sixteen.starre faction.
truehearted PATRIOTS forty thousand strong, who will here
with their swords in their hands and their
The battle is not ended this is not Sat.
sU end until State shall be restored to the ranks of the
national democracy and elevated out Of her deep deg
stalks abroad and the integrity of glorious
public is endangered Of this opponents may be well
assured From this day let every friend of the Union in
Maine eternal enmy to black republcanism and
resolve to work increasingly to extermnate the nest of
poisonous serpents it hatches Down with it, from Kite
ry to AroostoOk! and NO oUARTER?'
The New YoRK CONGRESSIONAL DELEaATIoN-Ac
cording to the Herald the delegation from New