Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-10-16
MR.. BADGERS LETTER.

curious points which propose to notice. Mr..
Badger sets out by declaring that it his inten
| ton to have visited the Club and made speech
But, he says: 4 r.. .
Having been prevented, by a cause beyond my
control, from doing what had thus proposed deem
it proper. in order to prevent correct mistake
msstatement respecting my position and views. to
submit this communication 10 you, and to ask that it
may BE read to the Club"
1t must be humiliating reflection to the friends
of Gen. Scott in the State, that one of its Wing
U. s. Senators deems it necessary to declare his
position 4" in order to prevent or correct mistake
1t shows that the spirit of disaection in the Wing
ranks so great that ordinary silence is regarded
with suspicion So many prominent men of that
party, looking to principle and patriotism rather
than to party, have repudiated the Seward nomi-
nee of the Convention, that those who resolve to
hang find it necessary to declare the fact, in
der to escape suspicion of dsafection. But this
point is so common that it is not very curious and
we will pass it over.
After declaring that Mr.. Fillmore was his first
choice, the Hon. Senator continues --
81 will add, in all frankness, that, probably, no
man in the U nied States more disappointed, not
to say dissatisfied, than was, when that gentleman
was passed over"
Why was Mr.. Badger dissatisfied Was it be-
cause he had confidence in the fitness of Gen.
Scott? Was it because, like Southern Wings gen.
orally, he objected to the Seward influences which
caused Mr.. Fillmore to be passed over?" Was it
because he saw the South ridden over and trampled
under foot by the ant-slavery fanatics ofthe North
But Mr.. Badger lays great stress on the fact that
General Scott is the nominee of the Convention.
n I, H.
We answer, land Mr.. Badger himself cannot deny
it) the anti-savery, ant-compromise wing of the
Wing party. He admits that Gen. Scott did not
write any thing pledging himself to the Compro-
mise before his nomination, but says neither did
Gen. Pierce. Let us look at that moment.
Gen. Scott was repeatedly importuned to declare
himself upon the Compromise measures. He had
been in no public station where his course must
necessarily have given some indication of his po-
sition. There was no way to get at him but by his
own declarations, and either he sewed up his own
mouth or Seward sewed it up for him. He refused
to speak out, and very natural consequence
Southern Wings denounced him and opposed his
nomination almost to a man. We hazard but lit
tie, if anything, in asserting that Messrs. Mangum
and Stanly were the only two Scott men in North
Carolina previous to the assembling of the Wing
Convention; and the cause IF their opposition is
not left to conjecture-they themselves declared
that they had not confidence in his fidelity to the
Constitution, under which the rights of the South
are safe, and that they believed he was under the
influence, the tool, of the "higher-law faction
of unprincipled knaves and Misguided fools.
But Gen. Pierce did not answer Mr.. SCOTS let
ter, says Mr.. Badger. True, but his silence pro-
ceeded from very different cause from that of
Gen. Scott. Gen. Pierce was silent because he did
not desire the nomination; Gen. Scott was silent
because he did desire the nomination, and feared
to lose it by speaking. No declaration from Gen.
Pierce was necessary. He had been in public sta
ton and his views were known. Would any man
apply to Gen. Pierce for his views on slavery after
reading his speech on Mr. Calhoun's resolutions,
which we published in the Standard of the 9th
instant! And to that was added the well known
fact of recent occurrence that Gen. Pierce procured
the resembling of the nomination of Atwood for
Governor of New Hampshire because he took
ground against the fugitve-slave law.
| Mr.. Badger resorts to another pretext likewise
distinguished for its sophistry. He says true
Seward, Greedy and others of Abolition notoriety
support Gen. Scott; but that Hallett, Van Buren,
and Others support Gen. Pierce. Yes, but Seward,
Greedy and Co. nominated Gen. Scott, thrust him
upon the South not only contrary to its will, but
in opposition to its most strenuous endeavors to pre-
vent it whereas the Southern States first brought
forward General Pierce and urged his nomination.
Gen. Scott nominated by the North over the
head of the favorite of the South while General
Pierce was nominated by the South over Gen. Cass,
the favorite of the North. If the Van Burens,
&c. choose to support him under these circumstan-
ces, charity would lead us to hail it as sign of re-
turning and justice on their part. 1t is equiv
alent to pronunciation their part, of their former
course; and if sincere in it. may be regarded a
favorable omen. When repentance shall have
brought forth its fruits in them and time and trial
shall have proved their sincerity, they may or may
be taken back into the fold from which they had
far parted that point be determined hereafter
But one of Mr.. Badgers arguments in favor OF
Gen. Scott is, that she was born in the South. u
True, but he has shown decided preference for
the North, having left the place of his birth-the
Southland taken up his residence at the North
! Mr. Badger, U. S. Senator, and looked to by
his party a high-minded, honorable politician,