The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-09-19
Soft Shell Politics.
ADrJAz MANN, JR., TO WILLIAM n. LUDLOW.
JAMAICA, QUEENS Co, SEPT. lR 1854

JAMAICA, QUEENS Co, sept l6, 1854.
srI Az POSSESSED Of ysur letter addressed 70 ths edi-
tof the Euessre Pos q this date in reply 10 mse sd-
dresses to you the 9th current You best Consulted
ysur self expect by dressing your reply to nv letter
to the editors probably believing you could aid, escape
some responsibility By such crcumoeution I.hsll best
BY Addressing myself directly to the quarter whore II
shoold Be found and therefore shall continue to apply
tant matters referred TO In my letter. and IL you have
any of tho self respect which you claim, you ought TO
MOI. BE- bls to escape from this duty BY any attempt to
maxe false issues With to the propriety my pus
lshira Jour declared opinions aud then voting against
then since the opinions OF public men on public oues
tops always open, when known, to be examined and
ed BY all to WHOM they apply for support as can
didates for election TO cfce and II they change them
suddepy order indulge the pitiful vanity q becom.
ing eradicate FOR ingIorious sacrifice instead of ele:
ton tho world win claim the right to entertain their
nJtions about the motives and considerations which
have prued the change and to test the integrity and
sincerity of them % well as to discover the van weak
Of the individuals their itness to hold Office
and trusts which imply capacity fidelity, truth Aad
honor. In your reply TO me-, you say
First Mr. Msnn did not report to the convention any
resolution which be had previously submitted to me;
secondly. The resolution which he did report was
drawn ny another gentleman and no! submitted to
Thirdly. The resolutions which Mr. Mann did submit
to me old not vote against but when subsequently to
ne ADOPTION Of The Insjori'y report they were offered
by him individually voted against lay ling them the
table
In examining these allegations am willing to abide
in thing am willing to be deemed false In all. You
win be also subject to this rule
In view Of such rule and judgment let say that
these allegations manifest bold hsrdhood your part
that would be commendAbe If they true; but this
II not BY sn5 means new instance in which weak or
frau man having uttered an untruth finds 1t neoesss
ry and exredien to utter more In the vain hope
Of extrs,ing himself from deserved punishment ut by in
dueng confdipg people to believe the whole You
casLot have pro6tted much by such lamentable in
stances sitce you choose TO initiate them With bra
zen faculty, and you cannot be surprised or of
A /
ton, that die report to the convention tho resolution
which bad previously drawn up and submitted to you,
disapprovpg of the Nebraska bill In the precise words
which you had approved Of and In which it appears
in the published proceedings Of that body Tho original
the Evening Post, with its interlipeations and amend
nents some Of which suggested by you. for the
tior vhichl did r. port was drawn BY another gentle
man Fortunately. you must have witness who drew
convention. and who convict Of us Of fat and
disboDorsble fslsebood. have right to demand that
you SHAH produce him, you have the Affirmative Of
this issue, ard must know who the gentleman is to
whom you refer but am bound TO tell you plainly that
the men COOS not exist who will utter that fasehood
before ne een among the mendacious tenants OF the
Custom House. 1t is however, true that my friend,
Mr. WEIGH, of Erie, member Of the committee, copied
by me in his hand writing 1t would be too abs ard
for even to maintain that he drew it because he
copied it.
In your third allegation am informed that you did
not vote aga pst the resolutions submit ed you but
when offered them ini,idually ''after ths adoption
thu table, The records of the convention to which you
appeal show that the resolutions which offered nd
vidualy" did not include the h.d reported disap
proving of the Nebraska bil and which was rejected
Of course by vote in favor of the Nebraska
platform az adopted by the majority. You cannot es
cape from the record Of votes. You voted to
gratuste your connsrynen upon the benefits to be de-
rived from he passage of the bill authorizing slavery
voled TO congratuate my countrymen upon the
revival OF the slave trade with MI its cruees and hor
rors, which, by the laws of mot civilized and Chris ian
nations is declared to be piracy, punishable summary
ct the end of the yard Of any public ship After
your vote absurd for you to- vote you say you
did, agaipst laying the other resolutions which submit
ted the table, because that implies that you in
favor Of their ge al hough they directly in
consistent with th osc you had voted for.
You appeal to the records and members of the
ton TO sustain you On all your points Neither help
you for the records do not support your reckess ale
know what tIansLired in their presence hearing.
can readily believe that my resolutions, aud sspe
bill, such slight impression upon your mind that
yeu . canno. recall them in substance or detail"
Since Our nemcr, reacheous in respect to other
atte's not agreeable to your recollection, ! have
neither the right the dcsire to avise you but you
will allow to suggest the advant ge you wonii defire
by cniuvatng this important faculty by artificial
peaps better than you appear yet to have done
You assume that labosed under tne difficulty of
ADMIT that he'd aud still have decided opinions
against the Nebraska bill AZ the slave trade aud that
counted up aid after promised it to me- aud
ponins'i-n proposed This dlsappou sn,ens
stil greater when I found that a gentleman,
for public usefulness and whom had earnei to regard
with favor, although l had before seen nim
should 80 far forget or dis egard the good faith due from
fors for patty consider stion from which honorable
snd patriotic mind ihould reco have not supposed
that you packed the committee but that you selec ed
one already packed for you by master spits,o
far superior to You in such matters to whose you
converted yourself and far in your power all
truxt in vru. apIou
wes rot called upon at the nn to approve of your
selection Of the committee DO rot feel called upon
ton of IL il ! had been.
vas not aware before that you had undertaken tho
and e Soo ~so the d
mocIac conventions to be bound in honor to submit
10 the viii Of tie majority. unless they msnfuly
to feel obliged TO you for your friendly advice to me
to submit as you say you have done, to the will Of
,has Ga which nSmnsed you candidate for
&C Washington, to the glory of constitutional patronage
and Custom House patriotim; but you have. doubt
your judgment the conditions aud qualifications OF the
laws creating such obligations always inserted In the
trtal-to wit: that such conventions fairly and
honestly conducted without corruption or frauds and
without any bargains such learn you made and VIC.
when you were elected Speaker of the Assembly,
AMI without any undue influences, such may be seen
as we'll about thoroughly organized Custom House az
upon well ordered plantation under the influence Of
overteer with this difference that plantation inter.
course ana far preferable TO those OF the
customs.
With these ufual pEovisos and qualifications in the
law OF which you seem to be the expounder your
illusions would commend themselves better to the con-
mos sense and common honesty of honest d. mocrats
am pleased to learn Also that your Individual views
on the Nebraska bill are we'll known. feel bound now
to admit this, they ucdly and logically set
forth in tie resolutions which embodied them, and
which voted for in the lion, that sveryby
must see clearly that you warmly congratulate the
try upon the benefits it is likely to acquire from tho
Psss"ge OF the bin and the enlargement Of the OF
despotsn and slavery Through my good nature added
to the conclusion Of former latter that was not Ter
mied to doubt that You would te able answer it con.
sisfy with truth and hor or. l was mistaken, AMI
must beg leave to withdraw that, aud to say that
do net believe You able in any respect to do so.
am sir, your obsdent servant, A. MANN, Jr.
L. =. Circuit Court.
Before Hon Judge Nelson.
The INDIA RUBBER CONTROVERSY.
Charles Goodyear rs. Con1rcs India Ruthcr CD Il