Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-04-12
CONGRATULATIONS.
THE MILTON CHRONICLE

to stumble upon little paper published IN M.ton,
and known by the name OF, " Inc Milton Chroh'cie
The date was the 4th OF March, loon. III 'ooN"s
over its scanty and not very closely printed columns,
| observed and read an editorial headed "Aow
stands the record 7" In this classical production
the editor labors to prove THAT the Democratic party
in the North is abolitionzed; but first starts out
| with an attempt to refute the charge brought
| against the Know Nothings that on the final vote
for Speaker not single one Of their party from the
North voted for Gen. Aiken. In order to do this nc
has claimed tsco sound conservative Neo York. Des'
ocrats-Messrs. Wheeler and Wiliams-as belong
ing to his party. Both these gentlemen were the
regular nominees Of the Democratic purity OF their
Districts, and were elected in opposition to Know
Nothing candidates. They are both just as far from
being Know Nothngs as any Democrat in the
Union and it is singular enough that the wise edl-
tor Of the Chronicle should take them to belong to
his party. A little after the different parties III the
House had settled upon their respective candidates
for Speaker, Mr. Wheeler made some remarks in
explanation of his conduct in voting as he did, which
will convince Mr. Evans, if he will turn to them, to
which party he belongs have not the files OF the
Congressional Globe before me, and therefore can
not designate the page upon which these remarks
will be found, but if the editor ofthe Chronicle Will
| examine the proceedings Of Congress during the
second or third week Of the session he cannot fail
to find them Mr.. Williams is true national DEM
ocrat and voted almost from the very beginning Oh
the contest for Speaker for COL Orr of South Car
| DINA If he had been Know Nothing 1t is quite
| strange that he should have preferred Southern
| Democrat to Henry NJ. Fuller, OF Pennsylvania
Mr. Wheeler, during the greater part OF the contest,
| voted for Mr. Williams. If the eyes Of the Chronl-
cles editor should happen to fall on this commune
cation he will be but doing justice to these cons's-
tent members of the Democratic party by correcting
his erroneous statements concerning them. One
would Judge from the character Of the editorials in
the copy Of his paper which it has been my good
fortune to see that nothing under the is so much
the object of the EDITORS hatred as the Democratic
party; and yet he claims Northern members OF that
party as his brother X Ms, and, pointing to them,
calls upon Southern men to admire the hauohaiity
of Know Nothingism
This same editorial, entitled How stands the re.
cord ?" charges that sixteen Northern Democrats
voted for Banks, and then goes on to give list OF
| those recreant creatures The very first man whom
the editor has placed upon this list is the Hon.
Smith Miller, of Indiana, than whom there is no
truer man in the present House of Representatives.
The charge as to this gentleman is entirely untrue,
and if the editor will to the final vote he will
see it. He voted for Aiken, as he had done upon
every occasion before for either Richardson or Orr
All the other members placed on the black list by
the Chronicle are not only not Democrats but were
elected in opposition to the nominees of that party
by a fusion of the K y and black Republicans.
Lemuel Todd who is of the sixteen pointed
out, acas President Of the Know Nothing State Con.
rention Of Pennsylvania at the time candidates for
Canal Commissioner were nominated, and signed
the card calling on the Know Nothings to fuse with
the Abolitionists in order to defeat Arnold Plumer
" the Nebraska pro-savery candidate " OF the DEM
ocrats Mcssrs. Editors would like it if you would
append that card to this communication, and thus
convince the bold Editor Of his mistake. Penning-
ton, another member placed on the Chronicles list
was formerly Wing Governor of New Jersey, and
is now VIGOROUSLY one of the leading X. Ms OF the
North.
Know Nothngism and the Nebraska bill almost
annihilated the Democratic party of the North du-
ring the last Congressional elections. Only twenty
three of its adhercnts elected from the entire
North-Califurnia included-and of these twenty
two are as national in their principles any men in
America. Hickman, from Pennsylvania, voted for
Richardson, and stands, | believe, by the Nebraska
bill but he has lately shown disposition to horde
with the X. Ms and abolitionists He is the only
Democrat in the House who is not perfectly sound
and reliable upon the slavery question, and imag
inc he will find it not easy thing to conciate
those noble Keystone Democrats who elected him.
But while the editor ofthe Chronicle was telling
his readers how many Northern Democrats support
ed Banks why did he not give a list of the X. Ms
who supported him? They would have filled almost
q column of his paper. The Hon. C. c. Chaffee
from Massachusetts, himself a simon pure Know
Nothing, stated in speech which he made to his
constu nts few days after the election of Speaker,
that of the 1O3 men who supported Banks 65
genuine Americans. And who doubts this? Every
late Cong. essinnal elections at the North our South
ern K. NJ boa ted that the Democratic party
dead, and that "Sam " was invncible. The defeat
of the Democrats in New Hampshire partcu-
larry rejoced over by these patriotic journals. and
Bell and Hale, the mcanest of abolition Know Moth
ings, sent to the Senate, and three of the
same stamp were sent to the House. With but one
or two exceptions, wherever Democrat fell in the
last Congressional elections at the North, rabid
sbolitionist took his place, and Southern Know No
things rejoiced over the result So deep and abb
ding is their hostility to the only national party in
the Union, that to them it is matter of little
gard what class of politicians shall stand in their
place. the Democrats be defeated 1t is true that
the Know Nothngs Elected - Northern men,
bcrs of the present House of Representatives, and
that out of those p, only make the slightest pre-
tension to nationality, aud it is true that the North
ern Democrats elected % members of the House,
and out of those % are as sound as Southern men,
The remaining one, Hickman, of Pennsylvania,
though not what he ought to be, l would as soon
rely upon Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland, or
Elisha Culom, of Deas are, two Southern Know
Nothings who, in the final VOTE refused to support
Gen Aiken, the candidate of the national men of
the House. The Northern Know Nothing party is
completely abolitionzed that their Southern bre-
thren cannot place their finger upon single reso.
luton, adopted either in a councii or State Conven-
ton, relating to the subject of slavery, upon which
they if they be true to the rights of their section
can stand and yet, with all this before their eyes,
they keep at their game of deceiving the Southern
people, and claim their party as being national Or
ganization 1t is becoming weaker and weaker ev-
cry day at the South and it is not difficult to believe
that ere long, in spite of the opposition Of dema-
gogues and the misrepresentation of editors aoAo
can't kill their preudices that the whole South will
| unite and vote en- naasse for the Democratic cand-
dates. Stephens and Toombs Of Georgia, Benjamin
of Louisiana, Geyer, Oliver and Caruthers, Of Mis-
souri,, Archibald Dixon of Kentucky, Jones Of Ten
nessee Kerr of North Carolina and MANY others of
the brightest of the old Wing stars, have led the