Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-06-24

eno,pb. s He f,rtber. urged me strenuously at the
same time to go home, saying that Mr. talllmore
would not act-that Iwould never ger the once rom
him-that if Kerr were defeated he was to be pro-
yided for-and that had as well give up and go
home and electoneer for the Wing ticket and rely
upon Scott for Office for never would get one rom
ter with Scott did not let him know at that time
Mr.. Warren had told me that he had already delv-
ed thelctter to him with the check in it.
Some two weeks afterwards Mr. Staniy comPlaneo
of nv not having gone home, and spoke OF warren
having given him check for some three or tour
hundred dollars, which 1 could have had II would
have gone home.
times to GO home and aid Mr.. Kerr in his election,
for it was all important that west end OF the State
be thoroughly canvassed; and only two or three
days before he left the city called at his office and
told him my friends thought your Excellency was
inclined to give the Office, and believed II he
would 60 and urge you to give me the appointment
to Guatemala that you would do so at once.
He said it very important for me to be at
home, for the election in November would greatly
depend on the August election, and he thought had
gone some ten days before; but that he would go
right away and ask your Exceency to make the ap-
pointment that might be able to get oil without
further delay. I saw him enter your mansion, and
l understood afterwards that you told Mr. GENTRY
that Secretary Graham had pressed you strongly to
give me the Office.
city, accidentally had interview with in the lob
By of the House of Representatives, during which
he told that he had the President and press
cd my Claims but that he, the President, would not
make the appointment until Mr. Webster's RETURN
which would probably not be before the end of the
session Mcssrs Stanly and Morehead had also pre-
viously told me that you would not make the ap-
pointment-that it was understood you were TO pro
vide for Mr. Kerr in the event of his defeat and that
you would therefore act until the result OF our
State election was known.
As my other friends who conversed with you rep
resented you giving such intimations, looked
upon all these declarations as made merely to induce
me to 60 home and enter the canvass.
Messrs Stanly, Dockery and Morehead were great
ly provoked that did not get home before the State
election over, and complained to some OF the
North Carolina Delegation that l had bamboozled
and deceived them-that pretended l would go
home and turn the mountains up side down, and
that they would not have aided me in getting my
appointment if they had known intended to de-
ceve them; all of which, Mr. President was utterly
untrue was DESTROYS of going, and made every ef-
fort to do So but could not until you took your own
good time furnish yourself with every information
necessary as to my character and qualification Tor
the place
/ now desire to state that when my name was pla-
ced before the Senate, which on the 9th of Au-
gust the day of State election, the Hon. Edward
Stanly made every effort in his power, aided, as
have reason to believe, by Gen Dockery, 10 ueicat
my confirmation.
1t is due to myself to say that when they first
spoke Of furnishing me money, that said to Mr..
Clingman, to whose management / had entrusted the
application for office and to whom felt it due to
communcat any thing that might affect my chances,
that l had great doubt whether l ought not to re-
sent the proposition to give me money to election
Ger on as an insult; and he replied that such pro-
ceedng my part might throw obstacles in the
way of my success, and it would be sufficient for
therefore merely to decline to take money but to
say that whenever my application was decided l
would take whatever part in the canvass it might be
in my power to do.
So determined was the opposition made by them,
that but for the active and unrcmttng eXertons OF
the Hon. Willie P. Mangum and other friends, l
doubt whether my nomination would have been act
ed on before the end of the session. As it turned
out however these objections successfully met,
and l was in the end unanimously confirmed
1t is proper that should say that prior to or
about the time of our State election Mr. Stany spoke
to me in the House, showed me statement in #
the North Carolina papers to the effect (if my men,
DRY right, have not since seen it, that
a Clerk in the Navy Department and certain men,
bers of Congress had offered me one thousand dol
lars to go home and enter the for the Wing
ticket Mr.. Stanly said ought to contradict it i'm
medatcly l told him l was willing to do so as far
as the facts would warrant, but l could not make
general denial of the matter. He thereupon wrote
a contradiction, applying specifically to the charge
published, which was able to sign, and which he
said he would send off that evening for publication
in the Raleigh Register.
| now Mr.. President proceed to the consideration
of the letter which you have called to explain
written the 22d of September last at Louisville
KY to Col John A. Fagg, of Buncombe County,
the style did.
In the fall of 194e, spent some days at the Warm
Springs, in the neghborhood of Col. Fagg's. have
known him for twelve fifteen years, since he
came to the county to reside. He one afternoon
took aside and commenced a conversation, in
which he stated aftcr speaking of his want of means
to get along in the world and money to educate his
children) that he would be very glad to get office
from the General Government, worth some twenty
five hundred three thousand dollars year, either
in the army navy, which he thought he was ca
pable of fil!ing-that if he could get such Office
and keep it for three four years, it would put him
on his feet again. and he could get along He then
asked me if did not think that Mr.. Clingman could
get such Office for him. replied, did not know,
and that it doubtful whether Taylor Cass |
would be elected. l then advocating warmly
Taylor's election. He replied he did not at all
which was elected-that he had the thing fixed |
hat he could get Office just we'll from Adj |
ninistraon the other for Major Cass the best
personal friend he had in the world-that not day
passed while they were in Mexico together that Cass
lid not come to his quarters-that they were more
intimate than any two men in the army-and that
lad no doubt his father, General Glass; would be the
President elect of the United States, and that if he
Col Fagg, should ever at any future time, want any
hing from the Government, just call on him and he
lad but little doubt he could easily procure it for
lin; and in the Autumn of 1850, when my way
o Europe, met Col. Fagg in the same neghbor-
lood, and told him where going. He imme-
lately asked me if would be at Rome. 1 said yes.
lie then referred again to the close personal ntima-
y which existed between Major Cass and himself
nd asked ME if I had forgotten his telling me of it