The North-Carolina standard., 1850-02-06
MR.. BADGER s. RIGHT OR WRONG"

MIX. BADGER RIGHT OK sWRONG.''
1t will be remembered that on the last day Of the
last session, Mr. Badger defeated the bill establishing
Branch Mint in New York !; and be did it in man
ner which was mt exactly as fair as it might have
been. Under the rules it necessary that the bill
should be taken up and read third time by general
consent; and Mr.. Badger objected. This objection,
though by man, of fatal, and the bill
was defeated.
If any else had pursued this course, its propri
ETY. might have been questionable and questioned but
not so, Mr.. Badger being the objector, far the
Raleigh Register and Fayetteville Observer were
concerned. Mr.. Badger did 1t, and that was enough
for them.
The New York Express takes these prints to task
for their servility in the following pointed artcle
"AssAuLr UPON THE NEW YORK MINT. We are
sorry that the Fayetteville Observer, and Raleigh
Register deem it decessary to defend everything their
Senator Bad ger may do a public man, regardless
of the right of what he does. Both of these papers
assa the Express for the ground taken by it in
demning the course of Senator Badger, when recent
effort was made in the Senate to bring forward bill
to establish Branch Mint in the city of New York.
We thought we were Whig enough in our notions,
but we are not quite up to the Observer and Regis
ter, who seem to regard it as necessary to defend
everything their Senator may do.
NEW
York, the people here much capable ofjudg-
ing than Senator Badger, the wsest of his cons-
tuents and as our friends there would not esteem
our opinion as worth much, if called on to decide
upon the importance of tar upon any other matter
of local interest, so we esteem their opinions of no
more importance upon the subject of Mint here.
In regard to Senator Badgers opposition, did not
speak of it until it evinced in and with
earnest both uncalled for and unusual. During the
last Congress- attributed it to his ignorance of
Al r II
existed here for establishment Of this sort hut
that opposition has been evinced during the present
session of Congress with bitterness and vehe-
mence than ever before. He has not been willing
even to bring the subject fairly before the Senate. and
has sought to embarrass in every way in his power.
The Observer and the Register, judging from what
they say, know nothing of the business of this city,
and of the Inconvenience to which the people are
put and the expense to the Government for lack of
Mint here. That necessity was very apparent be-
fore the California gold arrived in such quantities, and
exists in tenfold degree now; and yet the Senator
from North Carolina, backed by two presses more
anxious to defend than to do justice to prin-
cpe, finds fault with the Express for exposing their
hostility to the city of New York-a city in which
every community in the country has an interest,
the principal commercial port of the New World.'
These are grave charges by the Express against
Mr.. Badger but that paper may be in error in charg
ing this opposition of the Senator to his ignorance
of the City of New York"
His knowledge or ignorance " of New York had
but little to do, imagine, with his extraordinary
course in regard to that 1t was his inveter
ate hatred of hard money, and his devotion to Banks
and paper issues that caused him to thwar the bill
which the Express is so anxious to see passed That
is the secret-though have no doubt the Register
and Observer could give Of their to the
contrary in any quantity. Their standing, stereotyped
reason is, however, as follows: Mr.. Badger did It.