Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-06-12

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Mayor has been elsctsd 81 s slsssl uS5 NJ
members Of the Visihncs Gommitts q sSer.dksst
we're behind their barricades and did not ~ vote
Hence the result. The Commit. See had BROKEN up |
their camp and disbanded, but have mol disosg an-
lied They declare that they viii sti sss that
the rufians are punished and good government rs-
stored. $50 - M essszs9
The great political crime Of Know Nothingism s. |
still yielding its fruits. We see them in bloodshed
and murder and the most pernicious misgovernmsnt
in Baltimore, Louisville and New Orleans !; and Ne
may Judge what the consequences would have been |
to the whole country if all portions Of it contained
such populations the cities referred to. We give
below, from the New Orleans True Delta The causes
Of the Viglant Committee movement in that City: !
"WHAT IS THE MOVEMENT MANY persons affect
to believe that only full consciousness of approa-
ching 2ecuniary disaster could have reused the
thinking and substantial men Of this community to /
mature sense of the necessity of crushing out the
evil elements which, for several years past have
ruinousy dominated here. Than any such SUPPOSE
ton nothing can be erroneous for public opin
ion in the last two years has been gradually forming
and maturing to make the issue which is now pre-
sented namely, whether the cut. threats aud vaga
bounds who congregate here, like . second San
Francisco, from every State in the Union and every
nation abroad, shall rule and ruin it or, whether
its industry, its integrity, and its intelligence shall
assume the control and compel such wretches to
abdicate and depart. II the question ever was a
political one it has long since ceased to be SO in the
estimation of the public at large, whether the kind
Of people who have been lording it over this city
shall be permitted to rob- plumber and assass:nate
at discretion, untouched by the laws unchecked by
popular power; until at length silent protests and
universal disgust have given way to determined or
ganzaton, and resolute intention to maintain law
and right by the strong arm of legitimate popular
authority.
The decentralization consequent upon what is called
the success of Know Nothingism, exceeds belief;
hundreds of youths in this city, many Of them the
sons of parents of the highest social standing, and
exalted moral worth, have been ruined in mind, mo-
rails and character being led into the indulgence of
the lowest and basest vices and entrapped into the
commission Of punishable crimes in order to obtain
the means Of vicious indulgence. The number of
estimable families who have thus been brought to
sorrow, exceeds we have stated, credibity and
how could it be otherwise, when the merest boys
associated with the vilest thieves and murderers,
hourshing their knives and pistols, dirking for the
| fun of the thing, any obnoxious poor person that
came along. and chanting in half.drunken insanity,
Rip Sam" they yelled and reeled to the lowest
haunts to sleep off the effects Of their first de-
baucheries? 1t is sights like these and not idle
real alarm for the safety of property which have at
length stirred and quickened this torpid community
into healthful activity, and we shall be disap-
pointed in the composition of the men who have
taken control of the movement, if they abandon it
before our city is purged of the villains who have
made it by-word, scof, reproach and hell
The man of property has of course a very great
interest in its preservation, and he must be blind
and stupid who does not observe how rapidly it's
value is deprecIating under the operation of the
causes to which We have so often alluded; but what
is property compared with the moral health of the
rising generation of this place. the decline in the
value of lots in juxtaposition with the purity, the
sanctity, the holiness of the domestic temple?
Ignorant and depraved brutes may laugh and
think it good joke to see precocious rufans play
of its sanguinary tricks; and we have seen vel
dressed, pretentious miscreants stimulate to such
exploits; but the parent who cares for his own
and his famly's honor, must be strangely con
stituted, if he witness such deeds without
grief, bitterness of feeling and nexpressble morti
fcaton. And it is in this spirit good men do, ant
have viewed the decentralization around us and to thu
ripening of the conviction in their minds that tn.
time had arrived to make an effort at its extirpa
ton, it is attribute and not to the apprehension
of property, the manly spirit of resolution ant
determination now being embodied in this place t,
effect radical and through reformation"
The NeD Orleans Ercitement-7Ae Mayor Protectet
by the Vigilance Committee.
New ORLEANS June 5-The Mayor is under tn
protection of the Vigilance Committee at head quar
tiers. Col. Christy has withdrawn from the leader
ship of the Americans.
No attack has been made by the mob. The pc
lice are now forming into divisions, and the Cit
zens are invited to join.
| LATER.
The Vigilance Committee have arrested Lumsde
of the Picayune who was confined several hours
for being disorderly at the Vigilance Camp
The Mayor has issued his proclamation from quar-
ters revoking the power of the Recorder to appoin
a special police. The citizens utterly disguise
with the vacillating course of the Mayor, and tn
streets are much excited.
The Vigilance Committee is still fortifying its pos