The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-04-26
WhIp Presidential Moyements.

Letter under The eye Of the Hon Booby Brooks
Mmngnm and Se,card denounced Splendid Supper Parne
Of Serard.
Correspondence of the New York Expre.s
WAsHiNGToS, April II, 1852.
The Presidential movements here continue to be tn,
engrossDg topics and they absorb all other
terest II is vain to Disguise facts and to face them al
ways is true herosm.
An impression prevals-be il true or not II Is vet tb,
mpression-that Mr.. Senator MaDgum made the speech
in the Senate he has made in of the lure
the presidency the Scott ticket; and impress
sion prevails that like lure IL held 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
this impression. did not create it, 1t il my bounden
duty your correspondent to write you only facts
but wide spread rumors affecting public men and when
these put by print but confer nm oh
legation in giving them to contradict in public
what is everywhere whispering In private ruor and
the hi among therefore s that supper parties and
dinner parties coalition has been formed beren Mr. Manguu
and Goie, Sward side nrolrng Others on their
respecfire sides that NTH Gen Scott the unwriting or
unwrten candidate for the North il to be Mr. Man
gum South or Mr. Jones, with the distribution Of other
high Offices among their followers in North Carolina and
Tennessee, and Kentucky Hence this astonishing coal-
tion
Mr. Mangum selected rumor adds to preside over
the whg Congressional Caucus at private meetng
Gov Seward was the prominent spirit and it there
determined that the wing Compromise resolution of the
first congressional caucus should be ruled Of order
All this be most untrue and endorse not one word
oft but such rumors current in the Washington
circles as any item Of news in circulation have before
OF men alleged to have been present at these
private dinner and supper caucues but 1t is not bus
to invade social circles fur ther as they produce
public The Scott speeches agreed upon in
these caucuses to follow Mr. Mangum, from Tennessee
and North Carolina and to back him up, will tell
what need not write.
1t is agreed too-and Mr. Mangr,m's speech already
dscloses that the whg Compromise resolution of the
early Caucus Is to be rcpudiaed not only
for the coming Congressional Caucus being ruled out
of order, but in the Whig National Convention repu-
dated uncacd for and also Some of the
Southern wings in this movement insist upon It th,
the waving Of the Is but its m
more fitting body-the Whig National Couyeptou-and
such Of them are in earnest (for them are
are but dupcs MS dupes they should be- The whole
promise as hnality is to have the goby then in the
Convention and such is the supper and dinner caucus
Understanding among the high contracting parties, and
the by will have and should have in the present
position of things. Why! think hear you ask in as
tonishment. Why Hear me, then, and will tell you
why.
We Northern wings can never fight for Southern
constitutional rights Northern ground IL Southern
men abandon us The provision in the constitution for
the surrender OF fugitive slaves is to unpopular
often most revolving and shocking duty. but il Is
duty imposr upon by the constitution and as sacred
pat y, tna instrument rs any othcr section IN
IT, II such leading men Mangum, StaDly Jones of
Tennessee or any portion Of Kentucky. abandon
when we struggle in the North for the unqucstoned un
questionable rights of the Southern States must fall
before the unpopularity of the Fugitive Slave provision
Of the constitution. We cannot stand up for men VIII,
refuse to stand up for Themselves We have earthly
interest in protecting the odious parts of the cond
ton, surrendered by the South itself We will never be
the cachers Of that North Carolina or Ken
lucky 60 III we can cYauo That
Of the constitution by southern acqulesccnce we most
assurcdy will Slave catching next slave trading il
thought by most people to be the of all occipa
tons. We wings who in the North have sacrificed our
selves, our popularity power preserve the con
secrattd instrument a George Washington and John
Adams bequeahcd solved from all obligations
to continue this self sacrifice when such men as Messrs
Mangum, Stanly Jones. and others, acting for their
States acquit us from the contract
And why should we continue this sacrfcc2 Anywsr
thou me that, Messrs. Editors You have given the
country, from Western New York an ant-sliyery man
for President whose education every feeling of whose
nature, beyond all doubt, and II aDt slavery bu
who upon becoming President. and taking tho oath
faithfully TO administer the government unier the con-
siution. remembered there q South a. well os a
Moth and who for this remembrance, only is "a
sailed by all The violence Of abolition assisted cvon IN
this assault hy such men Mr. Maugum in his echoes m
what they say. viz; that MIR. Fillmore Is unayalable
emorg The wings Of the North AMI tho demand of III
inmoa'ion therefor This southern man admits in nj,
state that tlr Fillmore preferred above An oiber
but hc advances the extra Judicial dn that he not
available ~ ne land Of his boyhood and birth aud tha
the state which has hitherto crowned him win ia
highest honois viii now turn its back upon him Why
however ~ may be asked suppose can hr not carry
Netht rn wing votcs-an ayerment by The way n M
lcundtd ~ cruel in Mr Mangums mouth--why az ad
rttdl but because he has been faithful ~ the co ara
ton anu 10 ne south well to the North Wc sr
~ Nr filnorc Therefore land the amc may b. sad 81
MT " heUtcf. Tor their course l. one North IN ulrn
sauiiced ny southern men ana scrlhccl by southern
men TOO, bocausc n obedience TO their oah u. 20 suy