Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-04-28
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Correspondence of the New York Express

! Fayetteville Carohnian
Correspondence of the New York Express.
WASHINGTON, April II.
! The Presidential movements here continue to be
the engrossng topics, and they absorb all other mat
fers of interest 1t is vain disguise facts and to
I face them always is true heroism.
An impression prevails-be it not, it is yet
the impression-lhat MIR. Senator Mangum made the
speech in the Senate he has made in consequence OF
the lure of the Vice Presidency the Scott ticket;
and an impression prevails that like lure is held out
to Mr. Senator Jones, of Tenn, in consequence OF
which is the division manifested among the Southern
Wings in Congress. Unjust not be censured Tor writ
ING you of the existence of this impression. did not
it. 1t is my bounden duty, as your correspon-
dent write you only facts but widespread ru-
affecting public men; and when these rumors
are put by me into print, but confer obligation in
giving them to contradict in public what is
everywhere whispering in private. The rumor and
the belief among many therefore, ls that at supper
parties and dinner parties coalition has been formed
between Mr.. Mangum and erGoo. SeWard on one
sde involving others their respective sides, that
with Gen. Scott the unwring or unwritten candi-
date for the North, is 10 be run Mr.. Mangum South,
Mr.. Jones, with the distribution of other high Of
fees among their followers in North Carolina, and
, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Hence this astonishing
coalition
Mr. Mangum was selected, rumor adds, to preside
the Wing Congressional caucus at private
meeting, where Gov. Seward was the prominent spirit
and it was there determined that the Wing Compro-
mise Resolutions of the first Congressional caucus
should be ruled of order. All this may be most
true and endorse word OF it but such rumors
current in the Washington circles any item OF
news in circulation. have before names of men
alleged to have been present at these private dinner
and supper cancuses but it is not my business to in
wade social circles, further than they produce pub
lie The Scott speeches agreed upon in
these caucuses follow Mr. Mangum, from Tennessee
and orh Carolina and 10 back him up, will tell
what need not write.
1t is agreed too-and Mr.. Mangum's speech area-
DIV discloses it-that the Wing Compromise Resolu-
ton of the early Congressional caucus is to be repudi
ated only for the coming Congressional caucus, by
being ruled out of order, hut in the Wing National
Convention, repudiated uncaed for and unnecessa
ry also. Some of the Southern Wings in this
movement insist upon 1t that the waving of the issue
now is butts adjournment more fitting body-the
Wing National Convention-and such of them
in earnest (for some of them are) but dupes,
dupes they should be. The whole Compromise, as
&" finaty," is to have the goby, then, in the Con-
venton, and such is the supper and dinner
Outstanding among the high contracting parties, and
the goby it will have and should have in the present
position of things. Why? think hear you ask in
establishment. Why! Hear me, then, and will
tell you why.
We Northern Wings can never fight for Southern
Constitutional rights orhern ground, ifSouhern
men abandon The provision in the Constitution
for the surrender of Fugitive Slaves is TO US most
unpopular, often most revolt ng and shocking duty,
but 1t is duty imposed upon by the Constitution,
and as sacred, solemn part of that instrument
um, Stanly, Jones of Tennessee, or any portion of
Kentucky, ever abandon US when we struggle in the
North for the unquesoned, unquestionable rights of
the Southern States, we must fall before the unpopu
ary OF the Fugitive Slave provision of the Consttu
ton. We cannot stand up for lnen who refuse to
. stand up for themselves. We have no earthly inte-
rest in protecting the odous parts of the Constitution
surrendered by the South itself. We will never be
the cachers of negroes that North Carolina men or
kentucky men do not want. If evade that
provision of the Constitution by Southern acquies
ence, We most assuredy will. Slave-catching, next
10 slave-tradng, is thought by people to be the
| meanest of all occupations. We Wings who in the
North have sacrificed ourselves, popularity,
power, to preserve the consecraied instrument
George Washington and John Adams bequeathed
US, are a6soVed from all obligations to continue this
selt-sacrhce when such men Messrs. Mangum,
Stany Jones' and others, acting for their States,
quit US from the contract
And why should we continue this sacrifice An
swer thou me that, Messrs. Editors. You have CIV
en- the country from Western New York an anti-sa-
very for President, whose education every feel
ing OF whose nature, beyond all doubt, and is
antl-savery, but who, upon becoming President, and
taking the oath faithfully administer the govern
ment under the Constitution, remembered there
South we'll North, and who now, for this re-
membrance only, is assaulted by all the violence of
Abolition, assisted even in this assault by such
as Mangum in his echoes of What they say, viz that
MIR. Fillmore IS more unavailable among the Wings
OF the North, and in demand of his immolaon there
TOR This Southern man admits, in his own State,
that Mr. Fillmore is preferred above all others, but he
advances the Judicial dictuns that he is not
available in the land of his boyhood and birth, and
that the State which has hitherto crowned him with
its highest honors will turn its back upon him.
Why, however, it may be asked, suppose can he
not carry Northern Wing votes,- an averment, by
the way, as unfounded cruel in Mr.. Mangum's
mouth-why Gf admitted) but because he has been
faithful TO the Constitution and to The South. well
to the North. We see in Mr.. Fillmore, therefore,
(and the may be said of Mr.. Webster, for their
course is one) Northern sacrificed by South
ern men, and sacrificed by Southern men, too, be.
cause, in obedience to their oaths to support the
Constitution, they have supported in good faith that
provision OF it which the rights of the South
The path of duty, therefore, for Northern National
Wings, If Mr. Mangum and his followers persist in
their course, and are sustained at home, even by
divisions at home is clear: and that path is to let
the South take of itself, it's fugitive slaves and
all. lfSouthern men encourage the re-openng the
keeping open the anslavery issues, WHY let the re-
opening come, and if slavery be an institution that
cannot stand the test of law, religion or popular
opinion, it must tumble down. If MIR. Mangum can.
embrace ncaucus Gov Seward, fresh from the Bloom
er anti-slavery demonstrations Of Auburn, and Thad
Stevens. with hands red with the blood of the Gorsucb
murder IN Christina without any definition of prin-
IclPes,-nay, declaring them all out of order -