Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-03-18
Ezra Session of the U. $. Senate
NAeA SN" nsL n 1879


~, DID, uood nm article from Wilmington
IN r neSsnaner in which he and Mr. hangum
NTore condemned for gross neglect OF duty: III iah
inc IN urge an appropriation for the improvement OF
Cape Fear River -, ,-
from this charge, showing that he had done every
thing in his power TO obtain such an appropriation
He had in the difficulty obtained its insertion as an
item in the navy appropriation bill, but 1t was lost
in the committee of conferences aIter p'o'i"o'e0
contest to retain it.
Nossrs Gwin. Hamlin and Borland testified to the
,arsevering fidelity with which the Senator from
North Carolina had urged that measure
Tho article TO which reference is made appeared
IN the Daily Journal of the last of February or the
FIRST of March, and, at the time when puOhsheu'
N str;ct accordance with the facts of the case
We stated what we then knew. and upon authority
not to be questioned. We are much pleased TO
learn that subsequently, Senators exertei them
selves in favor of this with the perseverg
fidelity to which Nessrs Gwin, Hamlin and Borland
boar testimony and, for so doing, they are emit
+Iad tn and have our best thanks. In making this
oroende honorable which do cheerfully as an act
IF i,stice. we would remark that at an early
mart Of the affair, our Senators being applied to
for the nurpose of interesting their attention, and
rooc:no I'll If services on behalf Of this work, did
incontnentlv turn their backs upon the application
and the applicant, thus affordng the very fullest
ground for msapprehenson of their motives II they
then meant to exert themselves at all tavorably to
the measure.
Subsequently. we noticed by the abridged reports
of the Senate proceedings published in the baltI-
more Sun and other papers, that on the IND lnss.'
appropriations for the Cape Fear and Savannah nv
.rs had been introduced as amendments iato the
NAVY Appropriation Bill We then hoped that this
might have been obtained through the interpostion
of our Senator'S as indeed afterwards proved to be
the fact but of this fact we could obtain no verf
cation from the reports of the official papers at the
seat of Government, since they have not even yet
brought up the debates to that date; and, from the
pressure of business presume, or for some other
othee reason, our Wilmington friends then at Wash
ngton did not find time, think not proper to dis
abuse u.s. although aware of our unintent!onal mis-
take At the earliest moment we have seized the
opportunity af placing Messrs. Mangum and Badger
right. little courtesy their part at the outset,
would have saved them from being misconstrued, and
u, from being misled--Duily Journal, 11th inst.
Our senators aud our
Yesterday, we stated briefly but plainly, all we
had to state with reference to the action of our Sen
ators, Messrs. Mangum and Badger in the matter OF
an appropriation for the Cape Fear River, and in
making the explanation, which justice to these gen.
tlemen rendered necessary and proper, we believed
we had done all which we were called upon to do in
the premises; we certainly stated all we knew real
ly pertinent to the matter. We think still, and
have too much respect for ourselves and readers
to trouble ourselves them with arecapituation Of
the same facts at the demand of carping faults find
ers We only alude to the matter Ill for the purpose
of remarking that, having made the amende honora.
bic, which fuller knowledge of the facts, or, rath
er, a knowledge of subsequent facts enabled us tt
do we feel absolved from any accountability to 9th
err parties. We made the last as we'll as the frs
statement upon our own suggestion, and shall oil
ways. and at all times, pursue similar course.
The long article in to-day's Herald furnishes moth
ing new, and nothing that we did not promptly an
cheerfully concede yesterday,-most assuredly roth
ing relating to our Senators and they we had bee
led to suppose, the aggrieved parties. We d
not expect to please everybody, especially those VIII
cannot be pleased !; but we do expect to do justice
and to have justice done After recapitulatio
of the va ious movements of D. K. McRae, Esq
furnished by that gentleman himself in a conYersa
ton with the Editor of that paper the Herald
These particulars we have reason to believe wer
communicated TO the Editor Of the Journal on Thurs
day last" Would the Herald be good enough to in
form us by whom they communicated! w
must confess that something like information woul
add to our stock of knowledge upon this subject
And even supposing that they were, how much soon
er could we have laid them before the public tina
we did do? What then was the necessity for tn
Herald alluding to this matter at ALL or what omis
sion of ours has he to rectify We pause for a re
ply, being unwilling to adopt conclusion, howeve
natural, that would point to Immature, a desire
injure or msrepresent us, as the moving cause
much which appears in the Herald of to-day. Blu
we let that pass. We understand it much bette
than the Herald has any supposition, and therefor
estimate it fully The Editor of the Herald ma
eventually become wiser than he now is 1t is
great world.
We do not belong to the order of Puff Masters
General-never have done so, and never will do so
ard therefore may not at all times pease those who's
vanity prompts them to hunger and thirst after adj
lation. But of intentional injustice to friend or fo
we feel ourselves incapable, and when at any tim
from the want of full information, such iniustic
has been done, we not only willing, but anxior
t. sHfy it, MS we have done in the present case.
Daily Journal, 18th inst.
We do not belong to the ORDER of Puff
never have done and will so; and therefore ms
not at all times please those whose vanity them hu
ger and thirst after adulation But ofintentional Injustice
from the want of full information been don
we are not only willing but anxious recty it, as we ha,
done in the present
The above, which forms the concluding paracrap
of an article in the Daily Journal of Saturda
headed "Our Senators and our River; has we a,