The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1845-03-20


and Jam gin.
In relation TO the organization Of the commit
tees in the Senate, and particularly in regard to
the position which has been assigned to Mr.. Man
gum, TIC Washington correspondent Of the New
York Courier and Enquirer makes the following
obscrsations:
OF the general character Of that organi-
zaiion do not now mean 10 speak, far
Their than TO say that, rs il respects the
minority, il is manifesily unfair, and as
il relates 10 the public interest, and pub
lie business, promises TO he most injuri-
Gus. My present object is to call atten-
ton to The position assigned by the Vice
President TO his predecessor, Mr.. Man
gum, which, were il not that other distin-
guished members Of the minority have
been similarly dealt BY, could not hnt be
regarded as personal indigniiy; and as it
i, cannot be otherwise ricMud than Is
evidence that Mr.. Dallas, in assuming The
duties of his Office, has either submitted
himself entirely to party dictation, or that
he does not possess either honorable feel
ings, or ordinary genilemanly courtesy.
As President Of the Senate, Mr.. Man
gum has known neither friend nor foe, but
has administered the duties of that high
and honorable position with a justice and
impariialiiy that has never been surpass-
cd, If indeed il has been ever equalled,
and which has at various times received
the unanimous acknowledgements of The
body over which he presided. In ability
he always stood among the foremost, and
by his elevation to the chair, his Great bu-
siness talents, his accuracy of apprehen-
sion, his prompiness in decision, were de-
monstraied TO the Senate and to the nation,
and should, of themselves, have obtained
for him as high and responsible position
rs majority Of legislative body at any
time confers on one ofihe minority; while
the high post he had so recently and so
honorably filed should, in common ccur-
tesy, have made it obligatory on his sue
cessor 10 have left TO him, in the organiza-
ton of the committees, the choice of posi-
ton, knowing, as, if an honorable and
high minded man himself, he must have
known, that Chat discretion would not have
been abused, but would have been exer-
c:sed with proper regard TO the usually
conceded rights Of the majority. But IN
stead of this, as ifwilh studied design on
the part Of his successor to commit an UNI
worthy and disgracesnl act, he has, by
him, been thrust down to subordinate po-
sition on committee nearly the last in
dignity of any in the Senate. Instead of
placing him on the Committee on Foreign
Relations, on Finance, on Commerce, or
on the Judiciary, all Of National charac-
ter and all requiring the highest talents and
the best minds, with littleness that is
contemplate, he has assigned him place
on the committee on Claims, a committee
of labor and of drudgery merely. This
is pitifnl indeed, and promises badly, very
badly, for the future course of that ofli-
Ger.
We have hut little to add to what is said by
the correspondent of the Courier and Enquirer.
How singularly does this dwelling conduct Of the
Vice President contrast with the action Of the Sc
nate in relation to Mr.. Mangum! His brother
Senators, even Of the Democratic party, did not
withhold from him their need of honor for the
faithful and impartial discharge Of his duties as
President of the Senate; but Mr. Dallas, true to
the secen principles of the New York school OF
politics, acknowledges no merit in an opponent,
and holds the interest and honor of the nation as
deserving only secondary place in his colslde-
ssation.
QMR. MANGUM'S yALEDICTORI!
II MIR. Benton rose and said he seized a
llnnaent when the PsosideIr VI liie oeiia''