Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-10-21
Renewed Hopes for the Republic.


For the per2etuity Of this Union under our just
and equitable Constitution, of which so many patri-
otto men had reluctantly almost despared. there are
now renewed hopes in the results of the elections in
Ohio and Iowa. Taking these results
as indicative of the change in Northern sentiment
and of returning sense Of justice, the South has |
grounds to hope that her rights will be respected,
the Constitution preserved, and the Union perpet-
uated.
The people everywhere are honest; and though |
they may be misled by corrupt, designing men, they
will eventually discover the right and repair, so far
they can, the errors into which they have been be-
trayed. For a few years past the people of the
North have been wild with madness. Their preach
ers forgetting their God and his gospel have taken
delight in damning their Southern brethren, forget
full of the salvation of the souls around them Their
politicians, for selfish purposes, have msrepresented
the South and her institutions, and inAamed the
minds of the people with sectional hatred. Public
sentiment at the North seems to be manufactured
and guided by preachers and political leaders,
There is not that independence of thought and
feeling among the Northern people that exists among
the people of the South. The necessities of the
North greater than those of the South, and the
attention of the people there is more absorbed in
providing those necessities than it is with u.s. eav
ing less time for reflection than possess, and con-
sequently greater dependence on others for nfor-
nation on which to base judgment and action The
pulpit and the political stump have been the guides
for the masses; and of late years both have CON-
bned to vllify the South and lead astray those
guided by them.
tha hraiD of and
tionisn sprang forth, short time ago, Know Moth
ingism Like Minerva from the head of Jupiter, it
was full grown and armed for battle. Priests and
politicians throwing aside the Bible and the Cons-
tuition, worshpped and praised this "strange god"
1t like applying the torch to the dried grass of
the prairie. Over the entire North its banners
spread, inscribed with opposition to foreigners and
Catholics; and its followers were bound by oaths to
advance its interests by every means within their
power and some of the means made use of caused
patriotism -and common honesty to weep and the
internal regions to be stirred with demoniac joy
Victory crowded on victory in rapid succession.
Even the rulers of the storm were amazed at the
tent of their success. The entire North was pros
trate beneath them; and they marched across the
border to carry their conquests into the South
Their banner waved in triumph over the blood
stained soil of Maryland and there it still waves,
renewing its victories annually in blood, and propi-
tating the ruling demon with the sacrifice of many
human lives.
Virginia was next attacked, but it proved Wa.
terloo to the hitherto victorious "Sam." There Ma
poleon met his Wellington, and his power was bro.
ken. His armies in North Carolina were next de-
feated, and Tennessee, Kentucky and all the South
ern States joined in banishng him to Maryland, as
his dcsolate St. Helena. In many of the Southern
cities he obtained victories, but not single one un.
accompanied by bloodshed or confagra,ion, or both.
Throughout the entire South, Maryland excepted,
the X. N. Party is now but faction, with a mean
ingess. amless poweress opposition to the nation
al Democratic party. We no longer hear its thun-
ders against foreigners and Catholics; we see not
the fires of its "intense Americanism;" but all its
principles, its loves and hates, its fears and hopes
have been concentrated upon one long ago defeated,
crushed and almost annihilated measure-Dstribu-
tion 1t is old and worn out, and is only seized up
on with that deportation with which drow ming man
will clutch a straw.
At the North Know Nothingsm soon appeared in
its true character, and was known as black Repub-
licanism. Professors in colleges, preachers, politi
sectional movement to crush and degrade the South
and in the late Presidential election they carried
twelve out of the sixteen free States. Ohio and
Iowa were carried for Fremont by large maorities,
and now they have wheeled into the Democratic
ranks. Pennsylvania, which probably no one but
her own avorite could have carried for the De-
mocracy, now rolls up immense majority for the
great national party, in whose hands, and in whose
hands alone, the country and all its interests, and
all the rights of the various sections, guaranteed
by the Constitution are safe.
These results will tend to restore confidence at
the South; and if they followed up by similar
ones in the other Northern States. We may again
feel we have not felt since the advent of Know
Nothingism, that we great, happy, prosperous
and united people.
To the true and tried Democracy of the free States
the South owes lasting debt of gratitude Over
whelmed as they were by numbers, they still stood
firm, even when some Southern semitrait gave
aid and comfort to their opponents, and even when
many Southern K. N. papers rejoiced at their de-
| feat and accused them of hostility to the South
They conscious of right-they felt the fires OF
patriotism glowing in their bosoms, and they still
continued to struggle against the tide of anatcisn,
that was overfowing them, and now they see that
tide beginning to ebb, and the old ship Of the Con-
sttution to right herself with every rope and spar
in its proper place. and the great national flag OF
the Union floating proudly from her mast head, with
its cluster of thrtyone stars, beaming benignly on
its friends and its broad stripes stretching out threat
ningly towards its enemies. All honor to the gal.
liant men that struggled through the storm and did
their duty, in spite of the anaticism of the North
and the hatred of the K. Ms ofthe South They were
neither swerved by fear driven from their course