Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-10-20
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Mr. interchangeable TO your request, l
send you down a short account OF the Wing
doings at Warsaw. The audience was large
and respectable. Many calculated that there
gathering at $50. Mr. Badger led off in an
hours speech. two-thirds of which was consu.
med in setting himself right as regards his vote
on the Compromise bill He made long le-
gal argument, which but few of us under
stood, and many cared less about. Every
reason and argument he offered in extenuaton
of himself, was deadly homethrust in the
bosom OF his Federal colleague, Mangum.-
Which of the two is the best authority The
Feds themselves must determine Messrz
Badger and Mangum voted differently on this
subject. Mr.. Badger offered us no good evil
dence that this conduct, as we'll as that of the
other Southern Federalists, seven in number,
was not the result of midnight caucus of the
Federal party-that it was not a part and
parcel of party design to keep up the slave
ry excitement until after the Presidential elec-
tion. MIR. Badger and his seven colleagues
knew full we'll that if this highly exciting
question was settled before that event, that
nifty TO make capital by the exhibition of his
Northern face. Peace and quiet on that sub
! iect, would have proven an instantaneous death
knell to Tay lorism, Aboitionism, and all 9TH
er isms.
DID this party ever count the cost of any
trick or device that was necessary to ensure
their success. The experience of 1910 should
have taught them how evanescent and short
lived all success is that is gained by fraud and
trckery.
After Mr. Badger had finished his constitn.
tonal argument, he commenced a most vindic.
tive attack on the character of Gen. Cass-
His principal charge was that Gen CaSs had
approved of a law passed by the Legislative
council of the Michigan Territory, selling va
gabonds and Migrants as servants. He mus
have forgot where he was, and to whom he
was speaking, or he never would have fount
fault with Cass for the doing of that which
he could not help doing. Gen. Cass, by Mr.
Badgers own showing, was merely Governo
of the Territory, and was not entrusted wit!
the veto power. He had no right TO gainsay
or undo what the Council did. Who, in hi
senses, would blame and condemn Graham
the Governor of North Carolina, for the i'm
proper conduct OF the Legislature. The ordi
nance Of 1887, which was passed for the gov
eminent of all of this Territory, entrusted TIL
Congress of the United States, and not th
Governor, with the veto power, over the &C
ton of the Council.
Mr.. Badger wound up with a high eulogi
UNI upon the life and character of Old lack
After he had concluded, Mr.. Davis, the littI
. spitfire of your city, took the stump. If h
had breakfasted on fire Goals, he could no
have been hotter. He was in perfect fu
> ry. Polk stood no more chance with hin
I than short-taiI bull in fly season. He pour
ed forth volume of abusive lava on Polk AM
Democracy But all this will not do. cal
assure You, Mr.. Fulton, the Democracy of tn
two Counties of Sampson and DGplin had no
the shadow of a reason offered TO them by ei
Their of these imported orators, 10 make then
. quit the support of that cause which they hav
always professed 10 hold so dear There i
one subject which Mr.. Davis and Mr.. Badge
most studiousIy avoided, and that was the cha
@ racter of Fillmore. His name was not men
toned by either of them Some uncivil Dem
4 ocrats begged of them TO say something abou
Fillmore, but they needed not. | am yer,
# much in the notion that they intend dropping
e his name off their tickets, or if they will nc
do that, they will privately pledge themseive
= to vote against him in the Electoral College
J. know good many Wings who viii! not vot
any ticket with his name on it, You may re
ly on it, Sampson and Duplin will both d
their full duty in November.
A LOCKER ON.