Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-09-04
NANG1JM ATTACKING WEBSTER.

Tn q debate in the Senate of the United States
on the 25th ultimo, Mr.. Mangum used the follow
;no language in relation to Mr.. Webster. we
quote from the Republic:
aMr DopoIas said that complaints were made tina
:. ,ha Jan.rt9ents the work was given out to polIt
cal ayortes regardless Of the question who was the
NJ Msnoum said he had not heard of it before; il
;ht he So There were petty paltry things Done
IN The departments some times. Very recently par
tr contenrp6Le thing had been done by the Great man
of the Hhig party-he meant the Secretary ~ ol0ie
an act unworthy of him, unworthy Of Pos"i1n' ana
d;soracefI to the party, as his act confa Oe So.
,,S;ch mas onlv to q limited ertenti 6Ut Whtch eery
shortly oOouH be not to any ertent He lheh earnestly
opposed the DILL -.
The Washington Union, in noticing this move
ment of Judge Mangum, says:
sour readers will remember that Hon. MT. manguh
e the acknowledged chief and leader of the southern
Scott wings. He was the chairman OF me ocott
Who congressional caucus, and he it was who ruled
the Compromse resolution out of order which oeci-
son caused the first secession of several OF the most
influential southern wings. Mr.. Mangum, moreover
as one of the most experienced and censdeIate mem
hers of the Senate, and often called to preside over us
deberations cannot have used the above astonishing
language in regard to Mr.. Webster except upon
extreme provocation, fancied or real' OF PoI'cdl
character and indeed cannot be presumed TO nave "
snoken at all except upon full consultation win the
gentlemen associated with him in the leadership OF
the Scott wing of the wing party, and Prooaoiy win
Gen. Scott himself. What special Provocauon MI
Webster has given to bring upon his head this violent
and premedated assault of the Scott men will Proba-
bIv soon he made known. Meantime 1t may be DEEM
ed prudent policy by the Scott leaders tor MI MAN
gum to assume the exclusive responsibility OF MS
language, although no well-lntormed man can LOT
moment suppose that such declaration coulo De
hazarded in the Senate by leading party manager
except upon full understanding both with his asso-
ciates and their chief The fact is now made known
upon the highest senatorial authority, tnat mere Is
Gswar to the knife and the knife to the ht, between
Gen. Scott and Mr.. Webster, and the two wings OF
the whg party of which they are respectively the
chosen leaders.
Mr. Webster has just been nominated by State
convention in Georgia-the most important State In
the whole South TO the whg party-as the only can
didate who can keep the Whfg party there still IN e-
istence and the telegraph brings US intelligence that
the central and leading wing organ In the State which
has heretofore done its best TOR General Scott, has
now been fairly forced place the of Mr.. Web-
ster at the head of it's columns Mr.. Webster's name
is also regularly before the wings OF North carolina
for their support; and there can be little doubt that
in Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Florida,
Webster movements of decisive character already
made or are in progress. In Maryland no demonstra-
tion in favor Of Mr.. Webster has yet been made,
bouoh we oppose it to be admitted that TO TIE wings
of that State Mr.. Webster would, as candidate, be
almost as acceptable Gen. Scott is Objectionable.
At the North, the Webster movement thus far seems
to have been principally confined to the State OF
Massachusetts, and the cities of New DIRK and Phil
adelphia In these important localities it probably
can at this moment command greater amount oil
means for election purposes than within the reach
of the Scott wing of the wings. 1t is impossible TO
doubt that the Webster movement is also regarded
with favor by vast masses of the wing force in the
rural dstrcts,' though these have not yet spoken
fully having yielded the aggressive and mperious
shirt of the 'higher-law element in the wing ranks,
which rallies upon Gen. Scott, and which has now,
with characteristic vgor and audacity, resolved upon
an omen assault upon Mr.. Webster the floor of the
Senate In estimating, however. the relative force
of the two wings Of the wing party, as headed re-
spectively by MIR. Webster and Mr.. Fillmore, and
General Scott and Mr.. Seward, it should be borne
in mind that the Sewardite force has recently, and
upon the showing of its chief organ-the New York
Tribune-been hamstrung by the result OF the Pitts
burg convention. 1t is not improbable indeed, tina!
this fact may have aided in producing that despera
ton which has manifested itself among the Seward
and Scott leaders by this unprecedented denunciaton
of Mr. Webster by Mr. Mangum on the floor OF the
Senate But this estimate Of the Webster force seems
an the present state Of The hardly necessary in
order to determine Mr.. Webster's course. The self
respect of Daniel Webster-his Of personal char
acter and dignitv-noW stands Cs rock Of adanl0nf
6et,veen him and any other policy than that Of declared
hostility TO the 1Uhoe Scott naOUenlent.
1t remains to be seen whether the Wing leaders
of North Carolina will follow Mr.. Mangum in these
denunciations of Daniel Webster aUhose only fault
is that he aCas one Of the earliest and tfrneest
friends Of the " compromise" and refuses to sag
that he aviH support Scott and Graham.