Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-07-26

a. We copy the following in relation to the
! Edney Correspondence, and the conduct Of Docke-
~, Everett, Stanly and others, from the Washing
| ton Union:
A CHAPTER OF THE ScoTr CAMPAIGN OF 1852
Our readers have noticed in the columns of the Union
letter of Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, of North Car
DINA, explanatory of certain questions which, with
out some of our own remarks, it will be difficult to
| understand out of that State. AS there is enough
in the history of the furnish an interesting
and profitable example of wing politics, this refer
ence to it will not, we trust be out of place. Mr.
Clingman it will be remembered is not in good odor
with such of the southern wings still have hope
of keeping up the connection with the abolition fac
tons of the North because he has always boldly
fused to sanction any of the expedents of these
men. This the principle upon which he oppos-
ed General Scott in 1852 and this was the principle
upon which North Carolina nobly sustained Gen.
Pierce. Above all other considerations superior to
all the bonds of party, M Clingman has priced the
interests of his people and the welfare of the South
and he has been quite frank and fearless in repu
dating those at his own doors who have tried to
| bind him and other we-known southern men to the
pestentia councils of northern fanatics as he has
| been prompt and eloquent in recognising the
| true of the free States, who have deied OPP
position at home by standing up for the constitution
al rights of the South 1t is somewhat saddening
North Carolina, that, even while they profess to be
sincerely attached to their peculiar institutions
they should bitterly prescribe such southern
as Mr.. Ciingman. And the folly of this course be-
how it reacts upon the people, and how rapidly it is
converting North Carolina into a democratic State,
and MIR. Clingman into politician of unbounded
power. We recollect well how his ponderous blows
against the wings of 1852 Infatuated such demagog
ues as Stanly and Dockery; and while cannot
help wondering that the wings have not discovered
that Mr. Clingman is the strong side, and the
side of the truth, not surprised that they
should wrilhe under his successful exposure of their
intrigues.
The recent disclosures of Mr. Clingman, in regard
to the manner in which the wings managed the cam
paign for General Scott in 1852, have gone far to
widen the breach between himself and these lead
and it is to this point that his last letter printed
in the Union is devoted. Gen. B. M. Edney, of
North Carolina, a whig of much influence in Mr..
Cngman's district and speaker of excellent prom
Use and great power, was approached by certain of
the North Carolina wings in 1852, and requested to
go bone and to advocate Scott and break down
Clngrnan. He had been previously addressing 9TH
meetings in other States the same side, and
with such effect that his friends presented him to
AIR. Fillmore for the appointment of charge daffares
Dstrusting him, however, for his kind relations to
Mr.. Clingmen, such leaders as Stanly and Dockery
insisted that he should first go gone and labor for
Scott, to which he replied by announcing his will
lingness to do soon his application to Mr.
Fillmore decided upon.
At this point strange struggle seems to have ia
ken place. The Fillmore men, per Sc snartng under
the defeat of their favorte by the Wing National
Conventional result in which Mr. Stanly and his
set were supposed to be deeply implcated-were
not indisposed to give General Edney his appoint
ment, while the Scott leaders, we'll in the cabinet
out of it. were averse to it until he (Edney) had
made his mark against Clngman and Pierce in North
Carolina. The peculiar Scott men were perfectly
willing that Edney should get the office provided he
would go home and help them but, distrusting him
for his former relations with Mr. Clingman, they
managed to postpone decision to very late day,
and finally, when he nominated to the Senate,
thcy-that is, Stanly, Dockery, and company-la
bored hard to have him rejected, but without sue
cess. There are some passages in the history OF
coof,o thotT1 fhn
distinguished participants. Mr. Everett occupies
uncnviable position the matter; and Gen. Edney
states distinctly that Fitz Henry Warren told him
he had placed in the hands of Mr. Stanlv four hun
bred dollars to pay his (Edney') electioneering
penses, if he would go home and work for Scott;
and that Stany tried to buy him off by offering him
one hundred and fifty dollars; and that this was at
ter Mr.. Warrens statement about the four hundred
dollars. All these facts get from printed letter
issued by Mr.. E6ney.
Mr. Dockery who played conspicuous part in
business, is the whig candidate for Governor
of North Carolinu-with rather poor chances ofsu
cess. if we may judge from the canvass so far as it
has progressed.
One peculiar feature of this affair is exhibited in
Mr. Clingmans letter. printed in the Union of Thurs
day last and that is the acquittal of Gen. Edney,
for writing his socalled Fagg letter in 1s52 in which
he expressed himself warmly in favor of Mr. Cling
man. 1t was for inditing and printing that letter
that Sanly and others demanded that he should not
be appointed charge d'afaires to Guatemala and it
in reference to this very Fagg letter that MIR.
Everett, Secretary of State, wrote officially to Gen.
Edney telling him that his appointment would be |
postponed until the Fagg letter was explained. 1t
was explained, and Edney was appointed. Now,
however Mr.. Everett comes forward at late hour,
in letter to Mr.. Badger, and says this explanation
has no bearing upon Mr. Edney's appointments
when the record shows first that Mr. Everett wanted
the Fagg letter explained and said emphatcay that,
in order to give time to have it explained, the
sderation of the whole matter would be postponed;
and second, that in few days after this explanation
Mr.. Edney appointed charge to Guatemala. Even
when Edney went out of office, another of Mr..
Everets published official letters shows, he Ever
EFT, took pains write Edney and tell him that his
services as charge to Guatemala only dispensed
with because it was determined by the President to
the appointment of full minister for
Central America, in place of the chargeship held by
Mr.. Edney and that held by John Rodman Kerr, of
Maryland! Both places were dispensed with on this
ground. and no censure attached to Mr.. Edney
for writing his Fagg letter."
Massachusetts Anti-Neb,uska C,noention.
WORCESTER, (Mass.,) July p. The State anti-Ne-
braska convention, which assembled here to-day, is
largely attended by of all shades of politics.
Strong anti Nebraska resolutions, in favor of the
repeal ofthe fugitive law the abolition of slave
~ in the District of Columbia and for the rights of