The North-Carolina standard., 1844-09-25
For the North Carolina Stantlaf
Used up! used up!

/ wake CO. koePt. 50. 49, -
/ For the North Carolina Standard.
| Used up! used up!
! Mr.. EDITOR: Let me Iefi your numerous readers
tzwhat the Ptesident-of1he American Senate, alias
the Vice President Of the United States, has done
Why, he has "stooped 10 conquer "-and stopped
low, too, under the persuasion perhaps Of the be-
weiher of The Coon party in our county (Person. J
Il understood that the above beli-we her, by
questzof some of his party, waited Vice Preei-
dent Mangum and preyae on h3n4 TO accept an
invitation (aiready rejected!) to attend common
country barbecue at Black Walnut, store south Of
the river Dan, IN the good old untlinching COUNTY,
of Halifax, bright star in the2Od Dominica just
" termed the mother OF States. On his arrival at
| Black Walnut, Mr.. Mangum might have said, in
the language Of the woman of SamaIia, Come
! see man which told me all things that eyerI
Ibid n-and that man was John r. Edtfunds, EsQ1
for several years past conspicuous member Of the
House of Delegates of the Virginia Legislature,
/ from the aforesaid county of Halifax. The way
! he nsedup MIR. Mangqm, by referring TO every i'm
portant political act ofhs life, was the rgh: way to
! skin COON i tell you.r - ~-
mean no disrespect to Black w aInut or the in
telligent people thereabout, when use the Ian
guage common country barbecue. For GrInuess of
principle, poliieness, fashion aud genteel deport-
ment, the people of Halifax, south Of the Dan, will
vie with most of the fashionable circles in the Old
I Dominion.
| The barbecue, sir, was gotten up in this demo-
cratic region for the purpose of Spreading the beau
ties and alluring qualities of cooneTy 10 the best
advantage, before people somewhat unaccustom-
ed TO hear public speaking. Believing that the
combined eXertOnS and eloquence of the Hon. Vice
President of the u. States and John Kerr, Esq of
the county of Casweil, N. c., would avail much in
intoxicating on the milds of such mi ght listen,
that democracy not the thing 1t crack
ed up-to be, aHd should therefore be Abandoned,
and the delightful charms of eoonery substituted in
its stead, these distius suShed gentlemen were pre-
vailed upon TO meet such democratic speakers as
might have the effrontery 10 face them in debate.
Accordingly large concourse Of people met al the
appointed place. On the 23d ultimo: Several dis
tinguished orators both sides OF the great ques-
tIons that agitate public opinion, were In at
tendance but it was mutually agreed that the
above named gentlemen, Mangum aud Kerr, shoulJ,
as the able advocates Of cooneEy, be ptted against
I Dr. Thomas Averett and John K. Edmonds, Esq,
both Of Halifax, Virginia. the champion adyoca
/ Of democracy. The arrangements thus made, at
it they went. ~
Doct. Ayerett led off: For an hour and hall
the Doctor though evidently unprepared bring in
feeble health for the last six weeks, and just from
! night visit 10 the sick-sustained his great cause
admirably. He was followed; the length of
time, by Mr. Kerr, chip of the old block, famous
| for ingenuity, wit and sarcasm, which he generally
uses freely as substitute for sound reason and
argument.
I Mr.. Edmunds next appeared on the rostrun.
| Now came the tug Of war. He, in anticipation Of
Mr. Mangum's course (who was TO succeed him }
spread out his knee-high pIte of documents with
{dogears pointing TO almost every of the long p.
i.litical life of Mr. Mangutn, which he exposed 10
full view he progressed, often interrogating and
calling the Vice President totestify TO the va
lidty of his bold assertions The numerous re-
| sponses by Mr.. Mangum (who was by this time
greatly excited) to what he began 10 think uuwar-
ranted inteTrogaores Of The speaker, touching his
former course and various meandeTings in public
life, placed him in dilemma from which he could,
n n an VplI nD
the Two days he remained peaking to attentive
people patiently waiting, van TO bear and learn
something good LII support of the greatly exposed
and under-fuot of cooneTy, trampled upon at
every step by Mr-Edmunds, at every FIRE of whose
artillery Mr.. Kerr seen 10 dodge, writhe aud
twist, as though he expected broadsije fom the
same quarter, until at last (as Evans would SAY y
his agonies became great that he sloped and cut
OUT in great haste, bound for Rockingh ham Court
leaving the gallant Vice President TO fight the un-
successful battle alone, which he did ingloriousIy
for two days. long to be remembered with Joy and
thanksgiving by the democrats aud painful mourn
ing aud sorrow by The coons ten and there pres
ent. In the discussion MIR. Ed munds presented to-
view the deformitles of all the odious Tariff Laws
since the adoption of the Government down to the
fpresent day. An exposition of the course Of the
Hon. Vice President on these various acts of Con-
gfess, accompanied by the lucid comments of the
speaker, reused his ire TO point greatly above
Zero. The narration of facts heaped upon the
guilty head of MIR. Mangu:n, touching his course
IN tne udyS Ot.t1NuNHcdtiObJ WHeh Inc 0tate oil
South Carolina rewarded him with her unanimous
vote for the high and duneqaalled ofcesof President
of the United States close that all the coons
present looked wild and lule mobbish. Al this
crisis, Mr.. Mangutn observed that he would settle
the rim another way if his adversary was not
member of theschurch; 10 which MIR. Edmunds
promptly replied, if be was membersof the church
he was no Q@aker-and so the chapter ended.
Mr.. Edmunds was at loss 10 divine how the
Hon. Vice President would sustain the present
high protective Tariff after having gone with
South Carolina in her attempt to nullify one less
Objectionable, and in facr not half ruinous to
Southern interests and Southern industry, once
the apparent delight of The Vice President. Mr..
Edmunds plainly showed from argument and va
rieus authority the pernicious effect Of different
tariffs upon the prices of tobacco high tariff
uniformly making low prices, and vice versa. To
this illustration offacts Mr.. Mangum protested at
first, bat marks of concession manifest on his
countenanee towards the close Of the baEtle when
he looked like he was almost ready To cry out in
the language of the sopgster, "Oh la! I wish /
never had come here % -
F. No greater proof of the triumph of Mr. Edmunds
over Mr.. Mahgunl, in this debate, need be sought
after, Mr. Editor, than the great and early effort of
the Milton Chronicleto create different rmpres-