Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-09-10
Ncwbern, Aug. 80, 1856.
For the Standard.
CHRONICLES.

l. And it came to pass in the days when Frank
lin ruled the people, that the tribe of Know Moth
ings assembled their Captains of hundreds, and Cap
tans of fties and Captains of tens and patriarchs
and chief scribes, and all their mighty men, and
gathered together in the city of brotherly-love to
wash their garments and purge themselves Of all
their unceanness and to accomplish the days of their
publication.
3. And it came to pass that the doors of the tenn
pie were thrown open and the tribes of the South
the tribes of the North and took counsel togeth-
er how they should drive out the man of sin, whom
men call the Pope, with all the aliens and strangers
within their gates and as they unused in their minds
and strove together how they should bring these
things to pass. the temple was shaken and the devil
and Greedy, whose sir name was Horace, appeared
in the midst and lifted up their voices and said Men
and brethren hearken unto US, and with one accord
they shouted for about the space of halfhour, 'to
your tents, oh Africa" and behold great tumut
arose and the Council was divided in twain, and the
half thereof escaped by the door that looketh to-
wards the South and Satan got himself up into the
chief place in the Synagogue and set apart Greedy
as chief SCRIBE and behold he dipt his pen in an
inkhorn suspended from his neck and wrote to the
people in lying and deceitfu words and stirred up
much strife in all the region round.
8. Now after these things were accomplished and
the Know Nothings Of the South had iourneyed to
their own land it came to pass that the Know Moth
ings of the North came up once more to the temple
to begin the days of their purifcation Satan came
up thither also,) and purge out the Fllmoreites;
and as they marveed how this thing should be DONE
the devil seized burning from the altar and
cast therein handful of Niger Wool, and the
stencil thereof filled the nostrls of the men of Fill
more, and they cried with loud voice "Ichabod,
Ichabod" and fled for their lives and therest their
acts they not recorded in the Book of Rayner,
whom the devil made king of the Know Nothings
of the land of the South?
4. And it came pass after these things were en-
ded, that the of Fillmore met together to finish
the work of their publication, and the thing was
done in this wise: They purged themselves with
hyssop and washed their garments with Fuller's SOAP
and clothed themselves in linnen, pure and white,
| and gave their old garments to the poor, and put
sandals on their feet, and behold, it was told
them that certain followers of Law, whom men call
George. was found in the midst, and stfaitWpy they
thrust them out and swept and garnished temple
and their cunning men of music played on harps Of
thousand strings, and their horn was exalted be-
fore all the people.
D.. And it came to pass that the disciples of one
Stockton, whom men call Commodore, proclaimed
great meeting of the tribe that clave unto him to
make him ruler among the people, and they set him
on an ass, and put one Rayner behind him, and
placed in his hands scourge made out of the hide
OF bull OF California and he drave out of the tom