The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-07-26

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Have We 50 degenerated that an az
tempt to pail Others dawn to The level
occupied bs tbs writer i sufficient
apology or explanation for saeh con-
ducts
bat he saws that Col. Fagg had pre-
visusly told him he desired an Office
under the Federal Government. But
did he wish to obtain IL by dishoaorabis
msaas2 He does not venture to say
40. Did the expression of such wish
justify his piedging the services Of Mr..
Clingman. on condition that he would
vote Tor this gentleman for the Senate!
Again, he saws he understood that Col.
Fagg was elected by Mr.. clingman's
friends. and was favorable to his pro-
motion. III So. why promise him an
Office to secure his supports The sto-
~ wont do--it won't stand the test OF
logical dissection ;and il stands con-
tradicted. infeTsHfiaiiy. b. his letter
containing the Infamous proposition.
lie makes no reference toany previous
conversation authorizing such an offer.
but says, /" | thought il might be plea
SAINT for you 10 have 3 lucrative Office
for a year or twO,"-n0t that there is
chance for you TO obtain that which
YOU have desired for several years, but
that he OF his own head and imagina-
tion thought fhafi scOuld Be pleasant for
him 10 haze an cfsce for year or tiro.
In 1852. Just before the August cleo
tion. las this pamphlet is put in circu-
lation, the Standard published state
ment that Clerk in the navy depart
ment at Washington, and some mem.
bers of Congress, had offered Gen Ed
ney $1,000 Go came home and elections
Ger for Scott and Kerr. This charge,
on the 9th Of August afterwards, the
General, in a Card published in the Ra-
leigh Register, pronounced "tOfaiiy des-
iiufe Of truih." But now be says that
il is not totally untrue. $500 Of it is
true, aud 5000 false. Is this dealing
fairly with the public: The gist Of the
charge was that he had been offered!
money to take part in the then pead-
ins elections. and he is appealed to ei-
Their to deny or affirm, and he answers
that the charge is "iofai,y destitute 81
truth"
How did you understand this denial
then !: That he had been offered part
or no portion of that sum: Suppose
him witness and YOU a juror. and he
were to deny in those broad terms and
make no further explanation. Would
YOU believe the whole charge was un-
founded, or that il was untrue as 10
the sum specified onlys Certainly the
former conclusion would be forced up,
ON YOU. Such being the case, good
sense, sound morality. aud the bucks
that treat Of periuries, all eoneede that
a wilful suppression Of material fact
is equivalent to d positive ialsehood ;
and that witness detected in preyari.
eating Intentionally in any material
matter is unworthy Of credit altogether.
After stating the legal rule, will'leaye
your readers TO make the application.
Here, where the General is known,
several points strike us as remarkable.
First, the weakness of thuse distin-
guished gentlemen in srpposlng that the
General could aid Us in this part Of the
State; and secondly, that he declined to
receive tie sum rendered. Such folly,
ON the one hand, and integrity on the
other. was never suspected until pub
iished to the world in this formal way.
Another thing sunaccountable--that
Messrs. Graham, Stanly. Dockerv, aud
Morehead, knowing, as they unques-
tionably did, that the General was a
strong personal and political friend 81
Mr.. CliHgman's, and anxioas to pro-
mote him TO seat in the National Sc
nate. should have charged him WIKI the
important duty Of coming TO North
Carolina and defeating the "Clingman
candidates for the Legislature :" and
another Is, that he should have received
this proposition, backed, as he wishes
now to be understood, with the offer o.
$500, as a bride, and not resent and
expose it. but instead thereof, publish
a card, saving that the allegation that
he had been offered $1,000 for this and
other purposes was totally destitute q
truth, without stating what sum had
been rendered him. These perplexing
points leave for further explanation
BY the General and his Washington
protectors.
Sir, fabrications like this have cheat
ed many an honest man out Of his vote
in elections. For several years pas,
the authors Of this movement have hat
something to throw into political con-
tests just before elections, and at toe
late period to be fully and success.
fully counteracted. If this pamphlet
was important 10 the Generals vindi.
cation, il was 50 at the time il was
written. An honorable aud sensitive