Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-06-17

WHERE ARE They I'VE want to know what has
become of all the Catholics and Foreigners" who
received so much affectonate attention from Know
Nothing editors and orators short time slcce I
Where are they, and what are the bloody rascais
about? According to the leaders OF the r. n par
ty, they were just on the eve OF overturnng the
government and handing all over, body and soul,
to the tender mercies Of the Pope! Expressly to
avert this dreadful catastrophe we were told the Be-
cret Order was instituted Have the wicked designs
of the graceless Catholics and Furriners been ef-
fectualy circumvented by our gallant defenders =
Have papacy and immigration been kilt dead in
trely," that the especial guardians of professionalism
and republican liberty have ceased their labors =
Come, gentlemen, report, and let us know whether
you have captured the Pope, or the Pope captured
you; whether you have put an end to the influence
of Catholics and Foreigners discovered that they
never had any? Tell US how the fight terminated,
and your reasons for backing out from work which
but a little while since you declared to be OF
the most sacred import. We desire to know If the
danger is past-if the enemy has been conquered,
and If we may now 60 to sleep without apprehen-
sion of invasion" by the Catholics and Foreign.
But if it should turn out that the Pope is Still
at large-that the Catholic poor deluded soul, yet
repeats his prayers and counts his beads-that For
eigners still land upon shores and dig bread out
of the ground-that the Constitutions and Laws
still secure to every man the right ofworshping Al
mighty God according to the dictates OF his con-
science then we conclude your mission has thus
far been fanre-a miserable aborton-and We
would like to know why men actuated, as you pro.
fcssed to be- by high and holy patriotism, have in
goronsly fed from the field abandoned the fight,
and give up your bleeding country" TO the enemyy
Explain these things, gentlemen leaders. Show
| your hand. If you were honest in your burning
zeal for the protestant religion and civil liberty, why
have yon stopped short of the accomplishment OF
| your work? You are now as silent the grave on
these subjects. Nota syllable can be heard from
you the dangers of papacy the threatening as
.pect of the immigration question. The organs
grind quite another tune, and it is played on sin.
| gle string distribution. Why this great cnange
What has come the spirit of your dreams?
We awfully afraid that there is something rot
ten in Denmark"-that the whole concern was trum-
the people and brighten them into the support of the
Know Nothing aspirants for Office. 1t looks So
don't you think it does, reader?
If a man cheats you once that is his sin. If he
| deceives you the second time you fool So
with parties. A popular name-the assumption of
intense patriotism, and the discreet of liberal
supply of clap trap and bombast, may mislead the
| people once, but not twice. The Know Nothing
Order is dead, and its oaths and mummeries are bu-
ried. with the maledictons of thousands of honest
and true hearted men who were deceived into join
ing it. resting upon the whole concern. Those pol
iticians who, having deuded the people for a sea.
son with Know Nothingism, are now trying to inau.
| gurate faction under the mongrel name of
american Wings, have most assuredy lost al! regard
for the teachings Of the past They abandoned and
betrayed the Wing party, and the people, true to
their manly instincts and innate love of truth and
virtue, have spurned the selfish politicians and their
ill-devised and uncouth bantling. To change front
entirely court the favor and adopt the name of the
once proud and respected party, which they but re-
Gently declared to be rotten and corrupt is the very
sublimity of impudence. We can assure the gen.
temen that their experiment upon the credulity Of
the people will be failure. They will not swallow
Know nottingham even though sugar-coated with
the name of Wing. Asheoile Nesos.