Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-07-12
For the Standard,

MEssRs. ED1roRs have few remarks to make
which, if you think worth publishing you can do
SO. l am no candidate no aspirant to Office but
am friend to Democracy, and arp willing to cast
in my mite, and am ever ready to defend the great
principles that Democracy is based upon and to
oppose every measure and principle that has been
and is now in opposition to what think is and
dear to every friend of liberty and republicanisr,.
The question is often asked, why has Know Moth.
ingism produced so much more party bitterness than
was ever before seen? This question may be an
swered by reference to the Objects aims and ends of
the new Order, and by reference to the means made
of to accomplish the ends.
Office, power and dominion being the objects ig-
noring merit fitness and all former qualifications be-
ing the practice Making certain oaths, passwords,
grips and signs the test for Office, portion of So
ciety seeks to subjugate the rest, and make them
hewers of wood aud drawers of water for them.
Tyranny is none the less calling because exercised
by number of men united in common pur-
pose, instead of by one man. If the laws are to be
made, and the Offices filled and the manner of exc
cutting the laws to be determined on by clubs and
clans secretly associated together meeting by night
secret separate and hidden from the rest of society,"
who can doubt that the portion not afiliatng, not
in the secret, not cognisant of what is going on will
be leeced and preyed upon by the initiated?
Put the whole power of government in the hands
of this secret Order, of men and what will the ber-
ties Of the people be worth? A Know Nothing Leg
islature can pass law so arranging the judicial dis
trcts as to give almost the whole judiciary into the
hands of the Order
Such Legislature can pass law so arranging
the senatorial and representative districts that they
can always elect a majority of the Legislature.
This new Order have their constitution, oaths Of
allegiance, laws regulating the organization and 9th
or business of the Order; they have their 1'easu-
rer and modes of raising money; they have sys-
TEN of G1ms Gas they say) for defence; they have
officers to execute the law of the Order; they have
trials and modes of punishment for violations of
their laws. 1t is government set up by portion
of the people in free country, not to control the
conduct of such only as belong to the Order, but to
control the affairs of the whole people.
Is it supposed an intelligent people, composed Of
men who know their rights and dare maintain them,
will ever submit to such things? Is it right or even
suerable that portion of society, part of the
voters) often minority, shall rule the whole, when
the whole voting population have not an equal voice
in making the laws? Are we friends to our present
constitution and form of government? If We are
why do we want another to shape and mould the
one made by all the people, to advance the purpo
ses and to promote the interests of the new Order
in politicsp
And now, what has been their acts ?-"6y their
fruits ye shall knoW them."
The first Know Nothing Legislature that exercised
the law-makng power was in Massachusetts,. The
leading measures of that Assembly were,
LIST. A law called the personal liberty law, ma
king it highly penal in any person within the limits Of
the State to aid in the execution of the fugitive.
slave law.
I'd. A resolution passed by the Assembly depri-
wing Judge Lorng Of his Office for executing the fu-
gitve-slave law in the case of Burns; which only
failed for want OF the approval of the Governor.
Sd. The raising of committee to examine the
Catholic school at Roxbury, one of which commit
tee while on his visiting tour created charges against
the State Treasury for certain entertainments with
Mrs. Patterson. So exss+4s
The Ohio Legislature which has just adjourned,
and which was by large majority Know Nothing,
passed law to enable runaway slave to be taken
by Ohio Sheriff out of the custody of the United
to thwart the execution of the fugtive-save law of
Ohio.
The City of Louisville, KY, having large ma
jorty of Know Nothing voters, at the last August
election distinguished itself by the killing and burn
ing Of large number of foreigners and their dwell