Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-05-08
WILLIE p MANGUM.

WILLIE P. MANGUM.
! The DEVELOPMENTS at the late Wing caucus al
Washington and the course of certain Southern rep
resentatives in Congress- furnish SUBJECT OF pro-
found and Notifying reflection to every SootneIn
man. W hen the compromise measures o! low w.
adopted we were advised to submit to the wrong
for few men south of the Potomac could be founo 10
acknowledge the justice OF those Heasures') as II
would stop agitation and Northern aggression VINO
would supposed, after all these professions,
one of the pacifcators Southern man, would be Inc
very rs to revive that agitation, in ridiculous az
tempt to settle measures which he had declared al
ready settled, and fnaze g fnaty 3! AND VINO
would have dreamed that ground should be already
taken for the repeal of the FugltIve-slave Di' az"
that Southern men, sitting in caucus win suc. 'ie
as Thad. Stevens, " with his hands yet REQ WIN .,e
blood of the Gorsuch MURDER" should rule out VI ol
der declaration in favor Of the hnally OF the
! Compromise The common sense OF tne PeoPie
will repuGiate any technical rule that enaoes eau
Gus at one time TO express It's views uPo" ipoIsa"i
measures, and at another to conceal them-to cohced
them at the very time when the declaration Is heces
sary and indispensable to make proper choice OF tne
men who to shape the proper Policy OF inc oo'
eminent for the next four years. And yet su;h h'h
commttaiism, disguise, or call it by any name you
please is sustained by such men as Mangum, SIany'
and others from the South. 49,, :,
The article from the New York Express, published
! in Mondays Argus, presents many strong anu l"'
pregnable points and mere exhibition OF temper
and passion the part of Mr.. Mangum, no matter
how harsh and bitter he may speak, Will Viholcate
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! We know nothing of tile charges contained In Inc
EXPRESS against Mr.. Mangum; but whatever men
NAV think of them, few will deny that ne SPEAKS
more like an angry than an innocent man, ana 'ha'
he was perhaps the more angry because his course
seemed TO gre collar to the charges Gg0'"SS n.
But give to MIR. Mangum full credit for all he says,
and then, what is his position! he is senator on
a Southern State, which, be himself decaIes prefers
Willard Fillmore to Winfield Scott for the Presidency.
And vet, with this admission upon his lips, ne not
only attends Wing caucus and gives the influence
of his senatorial position to Gen. Scott, but In
speech in the Senate makes coaDardfy attack upon
the man who is the first choice las he says) OF MS
State for the Presidency. We say cotoardLy attack.
Mr. Mangum charges upon the othceholders the crime
of using their influence and patronage to break down
Scott while he disclaims all intention OF censurng
Mr.. Fillmore, who, he says. would not stooP to 1t,
&c. Surely she Senator from North Carolina must
know what every man of plain understanding knows,
that if Mr. Fillmore permits such interference; he is
pnrfceps criminis-more, he is the principal rather
than the accessory. II would have been far more
honorable and manly in Mr. Mangum TO have made
direct attack than adopt that covert mode, "hich
Conveys libel in a frown,
! And drinks reputation down..
/ But Mr. Mangum regards the conqueror of Mexico
available than Mr. Fillmore, and declares that
had he (Scott) been nominated in lS4S, we should
have had no Buffalo platform, with all Its disasters.
Is it possible that this is the reasoning OF Southern
senator Shall we be thus told by men avoWlng
fidelity the South, that the nomination OF Scott IN
1913 would have been so acceptable TO the :ree soil
s,
in other words, necessity for running Van Buren,
and Adams, the free soil candidates!
Can these things be
And overcome like summsr's cloud,
Without special wonder Z!
We are no eulogist of Mr.. Fillmore. We think he
has done injustice TO the South. But he has not at
least wantonlY added insult to injury nor can we
comprehend the patriotism of that Southern Wing,
who, while claiming to be friend of the Compro-
MISE and who approves MIR. Fillmore's course in re-
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thinks his star is the wane, and, with all the en-
thusiasm oan Eastern devotee, bows in alteration 10
the rising Southern senator deserving an Ad-
mnistraton whose course he approves, and which, IT
it loses the support and confidence of its party, loses
il by sanctoning measures for which that senator
voted-measuTes, too which, In his opinion, did JUS
tice his State, and saved the Federal Union
What would be thought of the man who, while
Keeling, staggering, falling under the nnProvoked
blows of some giant assaant, when frierd or
stranger, seeing his extremity, had come to his assis
lance and rescue-what, we say, would be thought of
the generosity OF such man, who would then, for no
that OF plumber, unite with the assailant to
crush his protector to the earth Such is the position
of MIR. Mangum No wonder he should wr!the under
IIe erpoSe OF the Erpress.
The Senator from North Carolina declares his in
ention of retiring from the Senate, and from public
life. Can it be that now, having nothing to expect
from his native State, he filings his Parthian arrows
his former friends, that the successful the
blow he aims at them, the more readily he will con-
cate his quondam enemies, and by them be elevated
to Vice Presidential honors :
"Cromwel charge thee fling away ambition
IT'S that which the council chambers of the
nation into gymnasiums for political gladators where
presidential nominations, cabinet appointments and
foreign missions the prizes for which they contend
But the South, deserted by her sons is Powerless,
and must go to the wall. The crisis is drawing
Let ii come! Southern Argus.
Another reason given by Mr.. Mangum for his sup
port of Scott is because he is the only Wing candi
date who can be elected. The old cry of " available
iiy - is to be revived rotten demagogue is to be
fosted the country. because forsooth, he is mill
itary hero, and his fame a chieftan is to be the
talisman which is to rob the dear people of their
senses, and render them willing to become the slaves
of man who has no civil qualifications whatever.
Gen. Scott somewhat famous in days of old
for letter writing, why is it that since he aspires tn
the Presidency he has become dumb Why is it
that syllable be got from him the subject
of the Compromise Is he for r2 Why not say
500 His game is thoroughly understood. The Peo-
pie have not such memories to forget his abolition
letters of former years.
He may play dummy" as long as he likes, but
he is deceiving nobody. The people know him to
he freesoiler-the pet of Seward and Co., and they
will treat him he deserves. What sort of figure
do Southern men cut, when they get up at Wash
ington, and endeavor to whitewash Gen. Scott, and
palm him upon the people, as sound upon the slave
ry question, when they know and the people know,
and Scott knows, tina, he is radically unsound the
Compromise, hostile slavery, and the candidate and
avore OF the worst wing of freesosm at the North
His Presidential plate of soup will have time to cool
before he eats il, Baskerville Neus, iWhig.)