Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-02-20
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?

" OF the e'ectlon OF banks on the SO-caeQ natlOnal
Know-Nothings. The Herald, it is known, has uni
formy sympathized with the K. N. organization;
yet, to its credit be it said it has way of speaking
out boldly for southern rights.
The truth is, aside from the course of these So
called national Know Nothings and their southern
BRETHREN the election of Banks is in ITSELF Knoao
Nothing triumph. Why do we say so? Because
Banks is himself Know-Nothing, as are nineteen.
twentieths of the black Republicans The only diff
ference between them and the other Know.N Nothings
in the free States is that they regard aboltonism
as paramount to Know-N Nothingisn and act accord
ingy. Massachusetts,, for example, is at once the
most confirmed abolition and Hno,o-Nothing State
in the Union. Who denies that? But read what
the Herald says: .~s.'s. s1's~ & -.-..-'.
-"Not solitary Northern American voted for Mr..
Aiken. Messrs. Broom of Pennsylvania, Clark of
New York, Cullen of Delaware, Davis of Maryland,
Milward of Pennsylvania, and Whitney of New
York, voted for Mr.. Fuller which was, in fact,
ting indirectly for Mr. Banks. The latter gentleman
took the trouble day two ago to change his vote
for Mr.. Aiken; but when the test came he was again
ready for another change. Mr. Whitney is the rep
resentative of New York constituency-ofthis city
where there are not six thousand black republI-
cans in all MIR. Heaven was absent. He is Mr..
Fimores representative, and has stood the test Of
nine weeks idle voting only to show that at the hour
of need he was ready to aid the abolitionists.
Three obvious points have been gained in this
suit: The abotionists have succeeded in organiz-
ing sectional party; the Know-Nothings hare as
clearly proUen that they too sectional; and the
administration have exhibited its utter weakness to
carry any point or any measure, or obtain any in
huence in this Congress. Eighteen Northern Dem.
ocrats and twenty seven Southern know-Noth things
supported Aiken. BY this exhibit it will be seen
that the only party haring a national phase at all
10 fLo fir "A int tho
comes from the elections of 1854; could it have had
the benefit of the reversal of the popular judgment
of 1856, 1t is manifest that 1t must haze signally
triumphed
While the clerk was calling the final vote on Sat-
urday Mr.. a. K. Marshall of Kentucky, (supposing
it all right congratulated his American friends say
ing they had fought good fight and had conquer
cd. There was no Democratic candidate in the field
with an offensive platform. Performing his duty as
patriot, not, pariiZan, he voted for Mr. Aiken.
We not, therefore, surprised at the chagrin of
Mr.. Marshall on the announcement of the election
Of Mr.. Banks The sir Fuller men, including Thom-
as r. Whitney of New York and Jacob Broome of
Pennsylvania, who stuck to Fuller, when their votes
for Aiken would have defeated Banks, are responi-
Jle for ihc result.
And what is the result to the American party 1t
is definite Congressional division of it, into two
hostile sectional factions. Not solitary Northern
Know Nothing voted for Aken-not one. Thus the
vote which elected the Speaker, discloses to the
"South Americans" called, the amentable truth,
that in Congress- at le,s their nationality party
is limited to the south side of Mason and Dixon's
line and the Ohio river and that their Northern
brethren, Of national type, incline to frater-
nizs rather aciM Giddiugs Of Ohio, than aoith the
| Marshas of kentucky.
! The question which next recurs is, how in this
condition of things be lnended atthe Philadelphia
National Councils Of the 18th and 22d of February
| The work there to be done is the pratical re-or'
ganization of the American party throughout the
Union, or its formal dissolution among the sectional
and local factions and loose materials of the country
The result Of the late struggle at Washington admon
ishes to prepare for the latter alternatire They
may, perhaps, do better. They cannot do worse
| We shall see."
The Wilmington Commercial, southern X. n
journal, takes the following just and patriotic view
of the matter:
"The election of BANKS being an entirely sec
! ti0ndl demonstration, what becomes the duty o
southern citizens, one and all? Need the question
be asked? We must become sectional also, and b'
united to defend ourselves against party tha
would destroy US, else yield at once to the domi
nation of abolition masters. 1t is useless t.
contend if we do not intend to exert our whole
strength; for depend upon it the time is at han'
when nothing short of that will answer.
And what is the duty of the American Party o
Know Nothings in this fearful crisis? Is not nov
seen that affinity or brotherhood can be held b.
them with the northern wing of that array withou
doing wrong to the south? Why do we say this
From the fact that not solitary member Of til
northern Knoac- Nothing or american Party cote
for Mr.. AIKEN, the Southern Candidate"