Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-05-31
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COMMUNICATIONS.
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Messss. EDrroRs: In The Register Of the 2sth
April / find that its Editor is attempting to make
his readers and the public believe that the object OF
the Know Nothing party is to put down abolition
ism and for this purpose copies into his paper GER
tain remarks said to haye been delivered by Gen.
Wilson, the late elected abolition Whig- Know Moth
ing Senator from Massachusetts, to that effect
In order that SO garng an imposition shall not be
practised upon the South-tor that was the design
IF its author. no Doubt ask Know Nothingism to
say what meaneth the following declarations of the
aforesaid Wilson, made short time since in Ire
mont Temple, Boston, before large audience that
thronged that spacious hall? Warming the anti
slavery men of the country of the dangers seduction
and Establishments of power he boldly said:
"If my voice could be heard by the anti'slavery
men of all parties in the nation would say to them,
resolve it-wrte it on your door posts-engrave it
on the lids of your Bibles proclaim it at the rising
of the sun-at the going down of the same-n the
broad light of the moon, and beneath the mder eff
fulgence of lunar ight-that the day any party, be
it Wing. Democrat or American raises finger to
arrest the ntislavcry movement prescribe anti
slavery men, 1t shall surely begin to die"
Does this look like prescribing abolitionism Will
the Register withhold this declaration from its South
ern readers, or will it act periodically and manly
and give it to them in order that they may no long
or be betrayed into the embraces OF aooltonisln
Southern Know Nothings cannot ask more at our
hands than an admission that tney are troe 70 'ne1
section of country but it is greatly to be regretted
that their leaders generally act in such manner as
to cast doubt upon the minds of many as to the
sincerity of their attachment.
AS the talented and patriotic Judge Gholson OF
the City of Petersburg, who is Wing, truly re,
marked, "the Wing party is now dlsbanded, ana
MANY wings are heard to declare that they will
unite with any party which will put down the DEM
ocrats showing that patriotic impulses govern
them in their action but un6ying hatred to that
party under whose guidance this nation has grown
to be one of the greatest most prosperous and nap
py upon the face of the EARTH Let no renectlng
man. saws this able Judge, act upon any such
nrinciple Wings have been accustomed to regard
the principles ofthe Democratic party as obnoxious
to grave objections but let them recolect that there
may be principles still more Objectionable. Wings
Of Virginia, before you enlist under the banner OF
what is called the - American party, be sure that
YOU will not embrace doctrines and principles more
dangerous than all the heresies of Democracy
Here we see one of the purest and ablest men OF
Virginia, and of the whole country, counsellng his
Wing friends to be cautious how they embraced
Know Nothingism. h. no doubt, had taken fair
and impartial view of it in all its principles, doc
trines and usagcs and had come to safe conclu-
sion to have nothing to do with it. but to expose its
ideousness and deormity and to advise his late as
sociates to pursue the same patriotic course. Abo-
litionsm was the producing cause OF the Order, and
for proof of this fact he points to its paternity
"Conccived ana brought forth in Northern Cities,
SAYS the Judge I" it cannot be claimed for them that
the rights of the South the producing cause"
But in view of these facts the late elections at the
North. and the resolutions of their meetings and
speeches and the declarations of the leaders of the
American party, falsely so called, see Southern
Wing presses and orators denying the affinity be-
tween the two isms, but that the one is hostile to
the other Know Nothings must knoD-thoussh
they profess to know Nottingham the objects and
designs of the originators of the Order, are hostile
to the Union and the peace and safety ofthe South;
but their oaths forbc them to reveal any OF their
dark and insidious plots. The bA ght and the pure
minds of the country see these things and are CIV.
ing warning of the dangers that environ US; but
the impure, ignoble and selfish demagogues of the
country who have but little tolose and every thing
to gain, will continue to every effort to keep the
people ignorance upon the subject either by with
holding from them these declarations and resolu-
tons of the leaders of the order of the "Sons Of
the Sires of 76," or swearing Justify that they are
false; should they be brought to light by men more
honest than themselves. Should the truth OF the
declaration of Senator Wilson, quoted above, be
doubted or disputed by the Know Nothings or any
of their editors refer them to the remarks of one
Charles w. Slack, representative in the House of
the Massachusetts, Legislature, delivered on the 18th
of April. 1t may be found at length, says the
Washington Union, in the Boston Evening Telegraph
of the 10th April. This Slack, who l take to be
slack in morals and politics as well as by name, was
advocating the removal of Judge Loring, who so
faithfully discharged his duties as United States
Commissioner last year in the case of the runaway
negro Burns arrested in the Infamous city of Bos-
ton a fit abode for such slack men as this noto-
rous abotionist and Know Nothing, who had the
audacty and meanness in effect to say, that Judge
Loring, in the rendition of Burns to his master,
der the obligations of his oath officer,
just criminal as if he had stolen Burns or any
other negro from Africa and had sold him to South
ern planter l will quote his language that there
can be no mistake or misunderstanding about it,
Speaking of the action of Judge Loring, he says:
In moral philosophy, as in the minds Of all just
men, there can be no distinction between the crime
of him who wantonly steals man from the African
coast to make slave ana he who voluntarily reduces
under any circumstances a freeman on Massachusetts,
Soil to the same hopeless condition"
This declaration of itself, if any and every thing
else wanting, is sufficient to satisfy any unprej
udiced mind that the leaders, in fact the entire par
ty of Sam at the North abolitionists and are
opposed to the Constitution, its guarantees and the
laws passed in conformity thereto for the protection
of our rights equals in the Union. In one sense
of the term We greatly their superiors, viz: in
our patriotic love and devotion for its continuance
and preservation. In another we are not their
equals viz: in vileness and hypocrisy and sincerely
trust we never may be, but how soon we may be-.
come SO God only knows, if fanaticism, either re-
gious or POLITICAL is to take root in the soil of the
South. We are tending fast that way, and it only
remains for the Democratic party party of prn-
ciples, to be "read of all men and the manly and
patriotic portion of the late, but now disbanded,
great Wing party to prevent it; otherwise we are
gone PHILO.
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THE NAPO COUNTRY.
A h,,esv lokko II.
resident at Quito, contains the following remarks in
relation to attempts to col0nise the Napo country
in the republic of Ecuador:
Within two or three years past, numbers Of