Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-02-25

- sWHAT Know N0FHEaaNh HAS lNAuouRATED.--3
Know Nothingism, says the NASHVILLE (ienn.l oa-
lie power It has, by some means, gained here and
there has inauguated an era ofruian rule. lnSNcw
Orleans for instance it has developed itself in the
worst species of rufanisn, taking for its model it
would SEEM secret clan that preyed Upon the peo-
pie of British India for considerable time previous
to the year 1870 Of this clan, writer in Black.
woods Magazine says:
:" It was then that the startling fact flashed upon
the Government, that there regular class OF ITS
subjects to whom murder was not only profession,
but also religion: and that great brotherhood
of crime having taken an oath with all possible 80.
lemnty went about the country numbering in cold
and boodless style, by strangling in remote places
unwary travellers, whom they could seduce into
their tolls All this was done with the most con-
sunmate art and profound secrecy; the members
assumed DISCUSSES, and played parts with the great
est address, they had also secset dialect OF their
with each other. These gangs had no permanent
form, the members assembled for q numbering ex-
petition and dispersed, vanished as soon as it was
over They outwardly followed some peaceful occupa-
ton. The Zemndar or head Thug was paid tribute
and hepoice were likewise bioed:nto silence
"But in the East India Company the Thugs en-
countered a redoubtable foe. Captured Thugs were
got to turn approvers. The whole secrets Of the
craft were divulged the laws were relaxed to meet
the difficulties of the case; the gangs were hunted
down in all directions; our jails were filled with
Thugs and great and horrid institution was bro
ken up in a few years. An occasional traveller may
still at intervals be stranged by the waysde; but
the system is dcstroyed-the profession ruined-the
guild scattered, never again to be associated into
great corporate body"
The New Orleans Courier, in republishing the
foregti g extract says:
"At this very moment, in this very city, one or
more bodies of exist precisely similar in action
to these East Indian ar lists. They do not strange
with rope-but they knock down with brass knuck-
les and sung- Shots cut with knives, and sometimes
shoot with pistols They arc organized in some form
or other and bound together by some secret oath.
The commission OF q murder raises the Thug who
commits it to certain rank in the Order and ent-
ties him to certain rights and privileges beyond his
fellows.
This set of men, If men they can be caled-now
controls our City Government, and distributes the
offices in the gifts Of the city to its principal as
sassns The policy of this body Of men is The policy
of our city authorities All crimes of any magnitude
are covered up possible, slowly and unwillingly
punished in the lightest possible manner, if conceal
lncnt be out Of the question. All persons who at
tempt to bring criminals to justice, are threatened
until they terrified from their purpose, or are
themselves murdered or disabled. Whenever one
of the gang is put his trial for one Of the das.
tardly crimes some of them daily commit, thecourt
is thTonged with the vile faces of his fellow Thugs.
who threaten court, jury and witnesses with being
themselves "thugged" ut some future time, if they
dare to do their duty to their country and convict
the criminal We fear that at the present moment
some Of judges actually afraid to pass sen.
tence in the most fragrant and notorious cases The
head Of the City Government was originally elected
to Office contrary to the will of majority Of the
voters of the city by Of the terror exercised
by the Thugs Of New Orleans in driving them from
the polls These Thugs now hold him in the hollow
of their hand making him do whatever they please.
He is merely their clerk for the purpose Of record
ing their DEGREES. They openly parade the streets
their voice against the present reign Of terror"