The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-04-11
E" THE GLOBE MAN"
WHIGGERY.

The little Wing sewer, established in Wash
lngton to serve as a conduit for the filth rejected
by the National Intelligencer, persists in its
calumnious Misrepresentation Of Mr.. Woodbury..
Very little heed will be given to its statements,
when we inform the public that we understand
it is conducted by Nathan Sargent, the man OF
whom Mr. Wise gave SO fattering character
Tor veraciy in recent debate.-Globe Of Monday.
In reply to the above, we have to say that the
Wing Standard is conducted by the person whose
name stands at its head, and who is its proprie-
tor and it is due to MIR. Sargent to say that he
did not write either of the articles in which the
extracts from Mr.. Woodburys speech were
brought to the notice of the public. In regard
to the above personal attack upon him, we have
10 remark that Mr.. Wise's charge against him
on the floor Of the House of Representatives, as
pucilanimously made as it is now meanly referred
to, was promptly repealed, and In manner that
fully satisfied the public that it was as false as il
was unmanly. So far from fastening the least
stain upon him, it fell harmless at his feet, il
having been made manifest that he had taken
unusual pains to ascertain the true state of the
facts in relation TO the affair between Mr. Wise
and Mr.. Stanley, in order to give them precisely
as they occurred. He did not pretend to give
these as an eye witness, and it was known both
to MIR. Wise and to the public that he spoke
upon information derived from others.
Mr.. Wise made the charge in moment Of
excitement, when urged and goaded on by 9TH
ers and though he wanted the magnanimity to
retract it, yet did not attempt to sustain it when
lo1 II IN
triumphant manner. Knowing, as we do, that
many of his personal friends greatly regretted
his attack on Mr.. Sargent, we have the charity
to believe that he too regretted it. Certainly he
gained nothing by it in the estimation Of an en-
lightened community SO far from it, the public
voice pronounced an unanimous verdict Of con-
domination against him for that act. Had he re-
piled to Mr.. Sargents card, published in the In
telligencer on the morning following the attack
in the House of Representatives, Mr.. S. was pre-
pared to show that he received the facts as related
by him, (and which Mr.. w. charged as being un-
uue,) in part from gentleman of distinction, to
whom they were communica led Immediately after
the ARRAY, by the person who witnessed the
whole affair, and who was afterwards called in
to court as Mr.. Wise's witness. He was pre-
pared, also, to show that, instead of there being
discrepancy between Mr.. Sargent's statement
of the facts, and the facts as they actually oc-
Cured, the discrepancy was between the relation
Of them by the eye witness, to the gentleman
alluded to, and the same persons statement Of
them when called as witness into court.
So much for the base attempt of the Globe to
cast the imputation of want of veracity upon Mr..
Sargent, or that the charge made by Mr.. Wise
stands unrepelled or unrefuted. And by whom
is the attempt made By ruthless, ferocious,
unblushing back-hearted calumnator and men,
dacious political pander. A man who has been
plastered all over, from the crown of his head to
the sole of his foot, with charges of falsehood,
SANDER, vituperaton, and Inendacity, by his own
political partisans, and who never had the courage
or manliness to resent single assault-who still
wears these charges nailed to him, and goes with
them sticking to him like walking piece of
patchwork. He talk of a Wing sewer, who has
been the Conduit-pipe of all the political filth Of
the Union for more than ten years He talk of
fithiness, who riots in rottenness, is blotch, a
running sore upon the body of Locofocosm, and
a stencil in the nostrils even of his friends Out