Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-09-08
WEBSTER ON MANGuM.

WEBSTER ON MANGUM
We copy from the National IntelHgencer of Sep
tembef 3D. the following reply of Mr.. Webster tc
the recent coarse attack made on him in the Uni
ted States Senate by Willie P. Mangum:
MEssRs. GALES & SEAToN-GENTLEMEN OBJ.
serve that in debate in the Senate az reported in
the Baltimore Sum- one day last week. the follow.
ing paragraph appears in speech Of Mr.. Mdngum
of North Carolina - -
Mr.. Mangum alluded to the great importa nee to
the country and to the whg party that the consisten.
cy Of the head Of the Central Committee of that DOW
erfu and to be victorious party should be maintained
He opposed the whole bill. He saw no reason for
taking away the printing of the departments to give
II TO the political press. No complaints had ever
been heard against the contract system as regarded
the printing for the departments
| Mr.. Douglas said that there were complaints; he
could show that the syetem as practsed there a
perfect mockery.
! Mr.. Mangum said perhaps there were coca sional
petty Paltry tricks committed in the departments Very
| recently one had been committeeman that too, by
the great man of the WING party-he meant the Sec
fetary of State; trick unworthy of him, unworthy
OF his position, and dsgracefu to his party so far as
he could affect it, which was but slight extent,
and which shortly would not be to any extent
Upon lnqulrlng, through friend, learn from Mr..
Mangum that his observations intended to apply
to the appointment of the Wilmington COMMERCIAL
conducted by Mr.. Loring, as paper to publish the
laws in orh Carolina and to the appointment for
the same purpose of the Knoxville Wing in Ten
nessee.
The Wilmington Commercial was appointed as
paper to publish the laws upon what was esteemed
good wing authority and if Mr.. Mangum had seen
fit to consult the members of Congress from his own
State, including eminent whigs he would have learn
ca mat there Is not more respectable journal in N.
Carolina than the Wilmington Commercial; that
the editor, Mr. Lorng, is highly respectable man.
OF irreproachable character and that his paper has
the largest circulation of any wing paper published
in W ilmington, TIE most populous and far the most
commercial city or town in North Carolina. refer
MIR. Mangum on this subject to his speeches in Con-
gress.
AS to the appointment of the Knoxville Wing ,
as one of the papers to publish the laws in Tennes-
see, II IS sufficient to say that that appointment
made by me upon the express recommendation of a
majority of the wing members of Congress from that
State.
So far as remember, never read single number
OF either of these newspapers.
hope may be pardoned, under the circumstances,
for this obrusion the public, unusual with me,
to defend my official conduct against mere random
vituPeration. DANIEL WEBSTER.'
The Washington Union, in laying this letter be-
fore its readers,says
CDR. Johnson would have luxuriated upon such a
morsel as this. Mr.. Webster appoints the Whining
ton IN. Co. Commercial to print the laws on what
was esteemed good wing authority OF course,
that covers every thing but when it is understood
that Wilmington is the hea 1quarters of the anScott
party in North Carolina and that those who oppose
Gen. Scott there all for Webster the good wing
authority " may not be acceptable TO such superfne
partisans Stanly, Mangum, and Seward. In sup
port Of his preference of the Commercial, of his good
opinion of the editor, and of the character of Will
mington highly important point, he naively " re-
fers Mr.. Mangum-to his own speeches.
The I" Knoxville WhIg'' is Parson Brownow's
paper-the chief wing assailant of Gen. Scott in
Tennessee. This journal chosen print the
laws - the express recommendation of majority
of the wing members of Congress from that State''
Tennessee. This certainly is crushing
to MIR. Mangum, especially when reflection shows
that those who recommended it the Secretary are
all opposed SCOTS election! So Mr.. Webster
avenges himself, and Messrs. Gentry, Williams, and
Watkins. at the time, by decapitatng those
who Islander both, and eievating those who sustain
and applaud them.
Mr.. Webster's letter serves, therefore, most de-
sirabe purpose. 1t is proof that his stand is taken
in this contest, aud is the authentic evidence of the
union and harmony that prevail in the wbig party or
between Gen. Scott and his abolition bod guard and
the old whig captains and veterans