Richmond semi-weekly times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 184?-1853, 1852-04-27
PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS.

| placed In his hands newspaper into which he
but seldom looked, in which paper appeared let
/ ter from Washington containing most unjustitia-
! BILE assault upon him. He was mott apt to notice
such things ordinariy but when there was evil
dence showing that they proceeded from higher
authority than usual newspaper assaults, he desi-
| red to notice it.
The paper was the New York Express In this
letterit was charged that he had entered into a
coalition with the Senator from New York, (Mr
SEwARD,) and that it formed at dinner parties
with that Senator This was false. He was charged
also with having been governed in certain recent
| positions assumed by him with aspiration for
certain high office. This was false also.
| There was another charge of a more serious
character; it that he had been guilty ofvenal-
! ity. That it had been arranged in private eau
Gus with the Senator from New York that he was
TO be placed in the chair at certain assemblage
and was to decide certain questions in particular
manner. His colleague knew that what he had
recently stated as his opinion upon the Preside ncy
| had been his convictions for more than year.
/ And there was not Il Senator in the body who had
| less influence upon his actions opinions than
the Senator from New York, and that fact that
Senator would doubtless verify on oath He pro-
nounced the statements and allegations contained
in that letter to be false in the aggregate and in de-
tail; and he made this declaration with full avow-
al of his responsibility to sustain it.
There was an attempt made In editorial in
the same paper to smother up the author of it by
abiding to him occasional correspondent, !"
and who had been in Washington ony a
| part of the winter, &c.
He had no doubt as to who the author of that let
ter was. On recent occasion he had heard the
| identical language used in this Chamber; the
| same thoughts uttered and the same ideas thrown
out, that were contained in this very letter in the
Express. He pronounced the statement made in
that letter by its author false in every particular
so far as they related to him.
When half way mendicant of an editor goes
about and gathers up such stuff to parade before
| the public, there might be some excuse found for
him. but when one, who, by the freaks of fortune
Is thrown into official position and into places of
higher authority, there can be apology for his
conduct
Mr.. M commented severely upon the conduct
of the alleged author of the letter. as one who by
his position, suddenly acquired was enabled to 90
around to dinner parties, &C., and abuse hospi-
tally by disclosing what he heard and saw, and
who assumed dignity and importance, rolling
up and down the Avenue in his carriage, with
liveried servants, &C., did not deserve the coune-
nance and respect extended to all mon of honor,
but should be kicked out of all society.
He had no doubt as to who the author of that let
Ter was. He of the editors of the paper;
and that author pronounced as guilty of one of
the most mendacions ofcalumnies and one utterly
lost to all sense of honor and proprety. That au-
thor, said he, take to be member of the House
of Representatives.
The CHAIR said the Senator was out of order.
Mr.. MANGUM said he knew he was out of or
der, but he was now done.
REPLY OF Mr.. BRooKs.-In the House of Rep
resentatives, Friday, Mr.. Brooks having obtained
leave to make personal explanation, went on to
explain the reasons why he feltcompeed to rise for
this personal explanation, as he could in no other
way make the record in his Justification, called for
by the record made yesterday in the Congression-
al Globe, against him, in the explanation
OF the senator from North Carolina. No news
paper comment upon that speech could be
transmitted to posterity-as this charge against
him would be, unless it was set at rest by coun-
ter-explanation on his part of the official record
He had little respect for that sort of chivary
which took remarkable care to measure its words
BY rules forbidding all possibility of personal of
fence being given, in its disagreement with GENTLE
men representing districts wherein public opinion
Justlfes another resort and grows furiously beli-
gerent and vugally vituperative and abusive in its
''af1alis' with n0thern representatives. He then
called attention to his declaration, made when he
hrst took his place member, concerning his
temporary diconnection with all that might ap-
pear In the columns the Now York Express; and
explained the many embarrassments under which
he had labored in the Hail. owing to his connection
with the press when not here. He had taken every
opportunity to prevent personal attacks upon mem
bers of the House in his paper since he held
seat on the floor. In the matter of this letter. he
remarked that he had seen it in manuscript, as it
| had been written by another and then went on to
show that ne could in no way be properly held re
sponslble for its views for those of the editorial
by which it was accompanied, which he had not
read IN full until this morning in the Globe.
In commenting on the epithets which Mr..
MANGUM had seen fit to apply to him, Mr.. b.
he reviewed the difficulty of understanding lust
what constituted gentleman, and maintained
that few persons agreed in opinion on this point,
while it certain that society at large differed
very slightly TO what did not constitute gen
tleman. Thus he believed that, by very general
consent, 1t was written down that the man who
comes fresh from the bilingsgate of the bacchan-
allan orgies of some midnight revel to vomt his
| bile in the Senate against member of Congress
in another house, could, least of all, claim to be
recognised as gentleman.
| Mr. next reviewed the many charges made
| against him heretofore, and argued that the most
important was the allegation that he had actually
married a southern lady, unless it might be Mr.
| Mangum's allegation that he was guilty of actual
ly keeping carriage which was driven on Penn
syNania avenue by negro servant in livery
though he had been confined by his labors as
| to prevent him from putting his foot in his car
rage more than three times since he had had it,
he would not leave this branch OF the onslaught
on MN without declaring that he would much
rather stand guilty of having negro in livery to
drive him. than himself to accept the place of a
southern driver in abolition liuery to team head
ing for the presidency. Applause.
The Speaker here raped to order.
| NIB, continuing, next apoiogized for and with
drew his former censure upon the Southern men,
bers OF the House for faultering in insisting on
having compromise wing candidate for the Presi-
dency. Those who had remained in the caucus,
held on tuesday night last, as well as those who
lett have evidently determined not to maintain af-
hliation with the wing party, unless upon broad
national grounds, on the platform of due respect
for the rights of the South and the Constitution,
Ii was due To the rorthar,, arahar. LIZ LII