Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-07-30
For the Standard.
LETTER FROM PINEBUR MOCCAsM.


No. 8.
MoocAsrNyILLE, N c., July 20, 1856:
Mr.. Printurs OF the Standard:
reckon you'd begunto think the Know-nuthins
had killed me, I've been silent so long. But I'm
alive yt and hope shall continue in the same con-
dishun till after the elecshun. Sum of the Know
nu:hins did say they'd kill me, but wasn't a bit
oneasy, for know'd they never told the truth. If
they lad sed they intended to let me alone, l tell
you should have bin on the look OUT for their
acts and words arejest as much by contrares asthe
Irishmans dream.
Mr.. Printurs, it seems to me that men sumtimes
perseveres in wrong don' till they don't know right
from wrong; and l think the Know w-nuthins has
about reached that pint. When them DELIGHTS from
the Greensboro convenshuu staid all night at my
house, they told me Mr.. Gilmore gwine to cam
the State but that he was gwine down to Roy
to see Gov. Bragg and make arrangements for them
both to go together Thinks l., If that's so the
Knay-nuthins must be gittn better, else Mr. Gill
more amt like the rest of them. But didn't b'lieve
word of it, and thought had sufficient resons
for my disbelief for the Know nuthins sed it so
and never did blieve that any imparshal jury
would find them guilty of tein' the truth.
kept watchin' to what would turn up, and
told the Know -nuthins here didn't blieve Mr.. Gill
more gwine to be any sich gentleman. One
day Joe Smithers brung me the Register, and show
ed me where it sed Mr.. Gilmore gw;ne down to
Rolly. This jest confirmed me IN my belief for even
before the Register man turned his coat to Know
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truth, and knowed he wusser now than ever.
told Joe it all a lie, and I'd bet on it. Joe sed
he didn't much b'lieve in the Register neither,
it had fooled him so about the platform. Thinks |,
what mean paper that must be which as mean
man as Joe Smthers thinks is unworthy of conf
dence
Well, then, wasn't bit surprised when l seed
list of appointments for Mr.. Gilmore in the Asheville
Specktater, paper edited by a most rantankerous
odforsaken, lynn Know -nuthtn, who was onct
iorto oh tanker n mt in
consin where he published paper and cut all sorts
of shines. ! say wasn't surprised, for l cum to
the conclushun that men who had bin doin' mean
long, had lost dscreshun and jest stuck their mean.
ness right plain. Meanness had JEST becum their
natur and they couldn't help it if they had tried,
which they didu't.
It's rumored up here that Gov. Bragg writ to Mr..
Gilmore to know what he swine to do, and that
Mr.. Gilmore writ back to him that his friends at
the Greensboro conrenshun had insisted on his 60
in West fust, and that he had sum appointments up
there 1t is also sed that Mr.. Gilmore invited the
| Governor to 60 west with him, and told him they
would then consult together and make lint appint-
ments for the East. / hope this run ant true,
but blieve it is; and if it is Mr.. Gilmore has act
ed in a way mountaineers call mean for his ap-
| pintments in the East made without any
sultashun with the Governor. In charity, / would
| b'leve this was done by the council which Mr. Gill
more is sworn to obey; but that don't make the
matter much better for him, for he had no bizness
to swar any sich thing.
think the truth of the affair is this: The Know.
nuthins knowed there was great rebeyun up here,
and they concluded to try to quel it by trottn MIR.
| Gilmore round by himself. To keep Gov. Bragg
from foern' him, it was determined to hold out the
idea that Mr.. Gilmore gwine to Rolly to fix ap
pintments with the Governor. Thus they intended
to have Gov. Bragg expectin' visit from Mr.. Gil
more and restn' quietly, while MIR. Gilmore was
preachin' up in the mountains. 1t was right cum
ninly devised trick but Democrats is hard to fool ;
and while was afeard Gov. Bragg wouldn't find
| out the appointments in time to meet Mr.. Gilmore,
received the Standard sayin' Gov Bragg will meet
Mr. Gilmore" 1 tell you jumped right up and
| holIered with all my might. | felt good all over,
and told every body about it. The faces of the
| Know-nuthins got about as long as my arm, and
they all looked white round the gills. Ned Davolt
didn't eat bit ofsupper that night and he and Joe
Smithers both got drunk before breakfast next NOR
min. Ned ses now it was ad-ned bunglin' piece
of bizness and he don't if it plays h-ll giner
ally with Know-nuthn'. ducks Iou-see Ned feels
sol ter sore-headed because he wasn't appnted del
| egit to Greensboro.
But the Governor and Mr.. Gilmore has bin among
us and time enuf has elapsed for things to settle
down here; and jest tell you, there's no guessn'
how big Gov. Braggs majority is gwne to be. The
old Wings ses they amt gwine to support man
that will try to play sich tricks, and that acts one
way and talks t'other He's aginst the Revenue
law but he voted for it he's for free suffrage, but
he's voted aginst it all the time ; he recommended a
furrener for Office and then swore to keep all furre
ners ont of Office that he could he's for OF
a bank, but he can't toll what sort; he's agiIst tax
es but in favor Of taxin little niggers; he's aginst
the Nebraska bil but opposed to restorin' the Mis-
souri, compromise he thinks the repeal of that com
promise was wrong, but don't think it would be
right to restore it ; he's for the Western address,
but agnst all its measures in the East he's in "a
vor of religious liberty, but aginst the liberty o
| Catholics: and in a word he twists and squrms or
every side of every thing and sticks to nuthin and
there ant many that's gwine to stick to him in these
parts. "a.
And then asin the old Wings ses they can't vote
for Fillmore and Donelson, for they won't vote fol
elector that calls them " tories and traitors" as
Mr. Cameleon does. l don't know who this Mr.
Cameleon is, for never heard of him till lately.
s'pose he's obscure eller that has hoated up or
the scum of Know Nuthnism but as he's State elec
tor of course he speaks for his party. He got mad
and lost his dscreshun, if he ever had any, anC
spoke out his feelins But he ant sed no thar
other Know-nuthins that has denounced the Whil
party as "rotten,"" corrupt" &c.
That little squintin' Mr.. Bodkn, the wringer-in
general and his man Friday, the edtur of the Sal
isbury Wa.chman, may call themselves old lint
Wings and vote with the Know -nuthins after bein
called sch sweet tories and traitors, ant
after bein denounced as rotten corrupt, halt ant
manned party for they have sich insane hatred
to Democracy that they'd go with old Nick to g
aginst it. But among the onest, unambishus Wing
up here they've got too much seIrespect to thu
degrade themselves and they intend to vote TO
Buchanan, Breckenridge and Bragg, the candidate
of the only national party, and the only party tina
can save the Constitushun. That is what we mus
preserve. Men may talk about Union, Union,
but the only way preserve it is to preserve tn
Constitushun I want to hear more about the Con
sttushun and less about the Union; for as long a
the former is unbroken the latter is safe. Them