Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-09-29
MR.. BADGERS LETTER.

Will prevent the possibility vi any IsIoPIeseHIa-
ton of his opinions and position" We had not
heard it intimated that there existed was likely
to exist any misapprehension as to the honorable
Senator's position; but as the general rule now
seems to be, in Southern ATTITUDES, that Wing lead
ers are considered doubtful recusant unless they
make new public professions of continued allegi-
ance to their party, there may be some point in
the Registers flourish over Mr.. Badgers letter.
Mr.. Badger states that he "preferred Mr.. Fill
more, and greatly desired his nomination and
" adds, that probably no man in the United States
was more disappointed, not to say dissatisfied, .
than he was "when that gentleman was passed
over" But he argues that inasmuch as the South
ern States were represented in the Convention-as
Gen. Scott has accepted both the nomination and
the Resolutions and, as to 90 abandon the nomi-
nation " would be to abandon the principles of
Whggery themselves" Wings cannot, with
good faith, refuse to sustain him, any more than
his friends could have refused to support Mr.. Fill
more, had he been selected by the Convention"
And Mr.. Badger goes to say that "such re-
fusal on their part we should have regarded and
denounced act of treacAery and 6dse,aess and
from this may learn to estimate the true char
acter of such a refusal on our part Considering
that GO no in the United States was more dis
appointed than the honorable Senator was at Gen.
SCOTS nomination, it must be confessed that he
deals in terms of no measured or stinted denun-
citation against bis Wing associates who cannot,
like himself, find in Gen. SCOTS course I" full and
ample proof of his "pledge" to support the Com
promise. zreachery" and 6aseness" are the
words he selects with which to characterize the
conduct of such men as Robert Toombs Alexander
81. Stevens, c. ri. Williams, Charles J. Faulkner
James Lyons, Daniel Jenfer, Thomas L. Clingman,
Joseph P. Caldwell, Thomas Loring, Thomas w.
Atkin, Marcus Erwin, DR.. John A. Dickson, DR..
John H. HILL and hundreds of others in this State,
as independent Of party dictation-as honest, pat
riotic, and high-minded as Mr.. Badger himself
men who have already openly and firmly repudi-
ated the nomination of Gen. Scott as unacceptable
and odious. Surely, surely the Wing party of
North Carolina have arrived at miserable strait,
when those of them who choose to do their own
thinking, and refuse at the bidding Senator Badg-
er, to swallow down the {" soup" cooked for them
by Seward and company, are to be held up to the
world as " treacherous :" and base" 1t remains
to be whether such dictation, even though fol-
lowed up by the clumsy and vapid numbers Of par
san politicians and the pop-gun edicts of the Ra-
leigh Register, will intimidate the freemen of this
State into forced concession of the claims of the
Seward candidate to their suffrages; or whether
they will continue to think for themselves to speak
for themselves, and act for themselves.
Mr.. Badger then undertakes to answer certain
objections, which he says, have been made against
Gen. Scott, but he takes especial care to pass over
the principal ones and for the reason that no plau-
sible defence be made. For instance, he states
that it has been objected to Gen. Scott that Sew
ard, Greedy, and Weed support him.; where
as, Mr. Badger very we'll knows that the real OBJ
lection of those whose treachery" and baseness'
he has denounced is that Gen. Scott was first last,
and all the time the choice of Seward, Greedy, John
ston, Weed, Raymond, Thad Stevens, Campbell,
Vinton, Truman Smith, and the entire host of Alb
clifton Wings at the North and that he was their
preferred candidate on the ground that Fillmore
and Webster, his rivals acre friendly to the Com
promise. Mr.. Badger knows-the country knows
that this was the consideration for which General
SCOTS name first hoisted, and his claims press
ed in Convention; and gentleman of Mr.. Badg
this fact, should not have suppressed it. Talk and
write, and write and talk till the crack of doom
about Gen. SCOTS private conversations, and his
interference as lobby member of Congress to
have the Compromise passed, still the facts stand
promin emily out to be seen of all of all parties
EE that he was Stewards and Greely's first choice
that his friends desired PLATFORM and that he
was preferred by them to Webster and Fillmore
because they had supported the Compromise mea-
sures. AT Have these facts been denied by any
public man of responsibility since the canvass COM
menced We believe not and yet told
here, on the 25th day of September, that those
who refuse their support to this Seward can
didate and who abandon" the fortunes of such
sinking and dissolving organization, guilty Of
e treachery" and baseness.
There are other points in this letter which we
may notice hereafter.
"SCOTT ENTHUSIASTIC"
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