The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-26


myself to five minutes
The PRESIDENT, 1t requires unanimous
consent
SEVERAL SENATORS. Go on.
MIR. MANGUM. A newspapers was placed
in my hands by friend yesterday paper that
am not accustomed to read--in which | find u
violent, unjnstifiable, and most atrociously in
furious personal assault made upon me. Here
it is.
Correspondence Of The Express.
PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENTS.
WASHINGTON, April II.
The Presidential movements here continue to
be the engrossng topics, and they absorb all
other matters of interest II is vain to disguise
facts, and to face them always is true herolsm.
An impression prevails--be it true or not, il
is yet the impression-that Mr. Senator Man,
gum made the speech in the Senate he has
made in consequence of the lure Of the Vice
Presidency on the Scott ticket; and an impress
sion prevails that like lure is held out to Mr..
Senator Jones, of Tenn, in consequence OF
which is the division manifested among the
Southern Wings in Congress. must not be
censured for writing you Of the existence Of
this impression. did not create it. 1t is my
bounden duty, as your correspondent, to write
you not only facts, but wide spread rumors af
feeling public men and when these rumors are
put by me into print, but confer an obligation
IN giving them a reason to contradict in public
what is everywhere whispered in private. The
rumor and the belief among many, therefore, is
that at supper parties and dinner parties coali
ton Las been formed between Mr.. Mansum,
and en- Gou. Se,oard on one side, involving
others on their respective sides, that with Gen.
Scott as the unwriting or unwritten candidate for
the North, is to be run Mr.. Mangum South, or
Mr.. Jones, with the distribution of other high
offices among their followers in North Carolina
and Tennessee, and Kentucky. Hence this
astonishing coalition!
Mr.. Mangum was selected, rumor adds, to pre-.
aide over the Wing Congressional cuucus at pri-
vate meeting, where Gov. Seward was the prom.
inent spirit, and it was there determined that
the Wing compromise resolution of the first
Congressional caucus be ruled out of order. All
this may be most untrue, and endorse not one
word oft but such rumors are as current in the
Washington circles as any item of news in cir
culation. | have before me names of men
alleged to have been present at these private
dinner and supper caucuses, but it is not my
business to invade social circles further than as
they produce public measures. The Scott
low Mr.. Mangum, from Tennessee and North
Carolina, and to back him up, will soon tell
what need not write
1t is agreed, too-and Mr. Mangum's speech
already discoses it-that the Wing compro.
mise resolution of the early Congressional eau
Gus, is to be repudiated, not only for the coming
Congressional caucus, by being ruled out Of
order, but in the Wing national convention, re
pudated as uncalled for and unnecessary also.
Some of the Southern Wings in this new move
ment insist upon it that the waving of the issue
now is but its adjournment to a more fitting
body-the Wing national cony sntion--and such
of them as are in earnest Qor some Of them are)
are but dupes, as dupes they should be. The
whole compromise, as a 4" finality,'is to have
the go-by, then, in the convention, and such is
the supper and dinner caucus understanding
among the high contracting parties, and the 60
by it will have and should have in the present
position Of things. Why? | think hear you
ask in establishment Why? Hear me, then,
and will tell you why.
We Northern Wings can never fight for
Southern Constitutional Rights on Northern
ground, if Southern men abandon u.s. The
provision in the Constitution for the rendition
of fugitive slaves is to US most unpopular,
often most revolving and shocking duty, but
it is a duty imposed upon us by the Constitu
ton, and rs sacred, solemn part of the instru
ment AS any other section Of it. If such lend
ing men rs Mangum, Stanly, Jones of Tennes.
see, or any portion of Kentucky, ever abandon
us when we struggle in the North for the un
questioned unquesionab|c rights of The Sonth-
ern States. wo must fall before the nnpopularity
of the fugitive slave provision of Me Constitu-
ton We cannot stand up for men who refuse
to stand up for themselves. We have no
earthly interest in protec ing the odous parts
of the Constitution, surrendered by the South
itself. We will never be catchers Of negroes
that North Carolina men or Kentucky do not
want. If we can evade that provision of the
Constitution by Southern acquicsence, we most
assuredy will. Slave catching, next to slave.
trading, is thought by most people to be the
meanest of all occupations. We Wings who,
in the North, have sacrificed ourselves, our pO-
pularity, our power, to preserve the consecrated
instrument a George Warrington, and John
Adams bequeathed us, are dissolved from all OBJ
legations to continue this self. sacrifice when
such men ns Messrs Mancum, Stanly, Jones
and others, acting for their States, acquit us
from the contract.
And why should we continue the sacrifice
Answer thou me that, Messrs Editors You have
given the country from Western New York an
anti slavery man for President, whose education,
every feeling Of whose nature, beyond all doubt,
was and is anti-slavery, but who, upon becoming
President, and taking the oath faithfully to adj
minister the government under the Constitution
remembered there was South well as North
and who now, for this remembrance only, is as
sailed by all the violence Of Abolition, assisted
even in this assault by such men as Mr.. Mangum
in his echoes Of what they say, viz that Mr..
Fillmore is unavailable among the Wings of the
North, and in the demand Of his immolation
therefor. This Southern man admits, in his
own State, that Mr. Fillmore is preferred above
all others. But he advances the extra judicial
dicfum that he is not available in the land Of his
boyhood and birth, and that the State which has
hitherto crowned him with its highest honors viii
now turn its back upon him. Why, however, it