Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-05-08
Correspondence Of Tie NeW York ErDre,,
Presidential Movements.
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and to face them always is true heroism. S
An impression prevails-be it true or not -:
vet the impression--that Mr.. Senator NJ
made the speech in the Senate he has mas
consequence of the lure of the Vice Presdencriml
the Scott ticket; and impression prevails ~.
like lure is held out to Mr.. Senator Jones y
Tenn. the consequence of which is the divi1o-
manifested among the Southern Wings in c.
/ gress. | must not be censured for writing ron -
| the existence of this impression. | did not ere.,.
it. 1t is my bounden duty, your correspm.
dent to write you not only facts, but wide spresl
rumors affecting public men and when these m
mors are put by me into print, | but confer .,
obligation in giving them a reason to contradiet in
public what is everywhere whispered in private
/ The rumor and the belief among MANY, tbereo,
is that at supper parties and dinner parties Goa
lition has been formed between Mr.. Kangan and
! En- Coz .Seward 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-.
side over the Wing Congressional caucus at a
private meeting, where Gov. Seward was the
prominent spirit and it was there determined that
the Wing compromise resolution of the first Con.
gressional caucus be ruled out OF order Aitls
may be most untrue, and l endorse not one word
of it; but such rumors rs curren. in the Wash.
ington circles as any item of news in circulation
l 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 So
cial circles, further than as they produce public
measures The Scott speeches agreed upon in
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nessee 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 discloses it-that the Wing compromise
resolution of the early Congressional caucus. is 10
be repudiated, not only for the coming Congress
sional caucus, by being ruled out order but in the
Wing national convention, repudiated as uucalled
for and unnecessary also Some of the Southern
Wings IN this new movement insist upon 1t that
the waving of the issue is but lis adjourn
ment to more fitting body--the Wing national
convention--and such of them are in earnest
(for some of them are) but dupes, dupes
they should be. The whole compromise, as
60 fnality,'' is to have the goby, then. in the con-
vention, and such is the supper and dinner caucus
understanding among the high contracting parties
and the go-by it will have and should have in the
present position of things. Why? | think hear
you ask in establishments Why? Hear me, then
and l well tell You why.
We Northern Wings can never fight for South
ern Constitutional Rights on Northern ground, if
Southern men abandon Us. The provision in tie
Constitution for the rendition of fugitive slaves is
to us a most unpopular, often a most revolving and
shocking duty, but it is duty imposed upon us BY
the Constitution, and as sacred solemn a part Of
the instrument any other section of it. If such
leading as Mangum, Stanly, Jones of Ten,
nessee, or any portion OF Kentucky, ever aban-
don us when we struggle in the North for the IN
questioned, unques:ionable rights of the Southern
States, must fall before the unpopularity of the
/ fugitive slave provision of the Constitution. We
cannot stand UP for men who refuse to stand up
for themselves. We have no earthly interest in
protecting the odous parts of the Constitution
1 surrendered by the South itself We will neverk
catchers of negroes that North Carolina or
! Kentucky do not want. If we can evade that
| provision eff the Constitution BY Southern acqu.
essence, we most assuredly will Slave catching,
next to save-trading, is thought by most people
to be the meanest of all occupations. We Wings
I who in the North, have sacrificed ourselves, our
popularity, cur power, to preserve the consecraed
instrument George Washington, and John
Adams bequeathed US, are absolyed from all obi
cations to continue this sacrifice when such men
as Messrs. Mangum, Stanley. Jones, and Others
acting for their States, acquit from the contract
And why should we continue the sacrifice :
Answer thou me that, Messrs. Editors. lou
have given the country from Western New lorE
an anti-slayery man for President, whose eduea.
ton, every feeling of whose nature, beyond al
!, doubt, was and is anti-slavery, but who, upon
becoming President, and taking the oath faithful!
to administer the government under the ConSilu'
ton, remembered there was South well as
North and who now, for this remembrance
only, is assailed by all the violence of Abotlon'
assisted even in this assault by such men as MI
Mangum in his echoes of what they say, W.
that Mr.. Fillmore is unavailable among the Wings
of the North, and in demand of his immolau0n
therefor. This Southern man admits, in his OWE
State, that Mr. Fillmore is preferred above an
others. But he advances the extra judicial dlela%
that he is not available in the land of his boyho
> and birth, and that the State which has hlthef"
crowned him with Its highest honors will now 'un
its back upon him. Why, however, it may be asa,
i ed, suppose, can he not carry Northern wing
It yotes-an averment by the way, as unfounded .
cruel in Mr.. Mangum's mouth--why, (if aoni'
ted Bat because he has been faithful to the Cas'
stitation and to the South, as well to the Noi,l,
i We see in Mr.. Fillmore, therefore, land ~.
same may be said of Mr.. Webster, for their eoulss
r is one,) Northern men sacrificed by Sou.ns, !
men, too, because, In obedience to their oa.hs :
support the Constitution, they have suppof'eut !
good faith that provision of it which secures -
rights of the South
The path of duty, therefore, for Northern - :,
tional Wings, if Mr. Mangum and his follO '..s
persist in their course and are sssta ned az n0
n or even by divisions at home. is clear ana + at =;
~ path is to let the South take OF ilse' :
Z Iava Ioll South