Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-08-18

READ lt-SatlsIy yourselves, out cannot give you
a copy, because it is private A "pripote letter "
indeed Why, then, If this be so, did he publish a
portion Of 1T in the " American Organ" 1t was
"private just far he chose to consider it So
and public just far he chose to consider it pub
lic He could garble it-he could suppress al of it
that it suited his purposes to Suppress for his
own 6 prioate" property, and this though it was
used to substahtiate grave public charge and was
rendered thereby public property Such view of
the matter-such excuses amount but to confessions
of guilt
But we go further. We proceed to prove
from Mr. Rayners oaon letter to Mr. Ellis lin anoth-
er column, which examine carefully,) that there as
either issue Of Oeracitv 6etaoeen Mr.. Rayner and
Mr.. Barringe'or that Mr.. Rayaaer has grossly mis-
represented that gentleman.
Mr.. Rayner says: About four weeks since on
my return from Philadelphia, [ met Mr.. Barringer
in Baltimore and in of conversation with him.
l mentioned the fact that l had taken occasion to
speak publicly of what he had said to me about the
Popes Nuncio at Madrid, having stated to him, be-
fore he, Mr.. B., had heard and before the news of
the same had reached Madrid of the formation of
Mr. Pierce's Cabinet that he (he said Nuncio) could
tell him of man that aooald be in the Cabinet"
&c. This, says Mr. Rayner in his letter to Mr. Ellis
is what Mr.. Barringer had told him; and Mr.. B.,
says Mr.. R.; "replied that mr. R. had stated the
matter correctly" Immediately after this Mr. Rayner
quotes from Mr. Barringers letter of the 9Th, as fol-
lows-all the public has ever seen of that letter:
Before had any authentic and certain news of
the formation of the Cabinet and while it was still
a subject of conjecture at the Court of Madrid he
0he Popes Nuncio) told me that Judge Campbell,
of Pa, acGs appointed, and that he was Catholic"
&c. There it s-"aoould be " and "aoas" And yet
Mr.. Rayner has the unblushng effiontery to say
in this same letter, and Immediately after making
this extract from Mr. Barrnger, and with the state.
ment above of the conversation with Mr.. BarringeF
in Baltimore fresh from his pen-that " this as tile
statement, (referring to the extracD had gicen
1t, achem alluding to 1T IN pubzic"! Why reader,
look at it, and if it is true. In place he says
Mr.. Barrnger agrees that it was " scould be"-in
another he makes Mr. Barringer say, in the extract
that it 4" "-thatis, in Baltimore Mr. Barringer
said the Nuncio told him in Madrid who "aoOul& be-
in the-Cabinet and at Niagara Falls, according TO
Mr.. Rayner Mr.. Barringer says he told him in Mad
rid who soos appointed" and this latter statement,
says Mr.. Rayner, is what have given when alud-
ing to it in public, and not the statement received
from Mr.. Barringer in Raleigh, repeated to him in
and by him confirmed! Was there ever,
according to this view Of the matter, a balder or
Mr.. Barringer make the statement he says he did, at
Raleigh and Baltimore and afterwards shrink from
it? Has he squisotated? Will Mr.. Rayner charge
that he has? We cannot tell but of one thing Mr..
Barringer may be advertised, and that is that Ken
meth Rayner, if he should deem such course ne.
cessary to sustain and himself will go to work
to break him down before the public, by attempting
TO skew that he, Mr.. RayneH has been deceived and
msled Throughout this whole affair. We cannot be
mistaken in estimate of the character of the
man. The fate of gallant Eastern Whig-Mr.
slaughtered" in the Wing Con-
vention Of 164s by Mr.. Rayner, is not forgotten
and if indispensable to his success, and if equal
to the undertaking. he will, in our opinion, devote
Mr.. ringer to similar doom. Let Mr.. BarriRger
and his friends be upon their guard!
But the Star, as have stated ,is endeayoring to
pervert the facts and change the issue for Mr. Ray
ner. Referring to Mr. Barrnger and Mr.. Rayner, it
says:
"There is no issue of veracity between them
not the least Mr.. Barringers letters to Mr.. Rayner
and to Mr. Ellis both fully confirm and sustain Mr..
RS statement, viz: That the Pope's Nuncio told
Mr. Barringer before the news of the formation of
MIR. Pierce's Cabinet reached Madrid, and whilst it
was in doubt and subject of com lecture IN the
public mind there, that Mr.. Campbell, Roman
Catholic, was member of the said Cabinet. That
is what Mr.. Rayner said, and that is what Mr.. Bar
ringer confirms"
Mr.. Rayner has made no such statement. Both
in his speech at Weldon, and IN Ills oso@ letter to
Mr.. Ellis he distinctly and unequivocally declares
that Mr. Barringer told him (Mr. r. that the Nuncio
said to him (Mr. b. that he could tell who acoutd
be in the Cabinet not who {" soas" Again, as
our correspondent understood Mr.. Rayner to read
from MIR. Barringers letter of the 9th July, at We'll
don, Mr. Rayner made Mr.. Barringer say that the
Nuncio told him that he knew one who sooWld be
a member Of the Cabinet and our correspondent
also states that Mr.. Rayner declared in his Weldon
speech, that in his conversation with Mr.. Ellis in
Washington he assured the latter that Mr. Barring
er had informed him that the Nuncio told him who
q aoouH be member of Gen. Perces Cabinet"-
Mr.. Barrnger confirms " nothing that Mr.. Rayner
said the contrary, both in the extract which
Mr.. R. has published, and in his letter of July 3d.
from Saratoga Springs, addressed to Mr.. Ellis-and
which the Register and the Star. no doubtsun
Mr. Rayners advice, haee not eentred to lag before
their readers-Mr. Barringer expressly and distinct
y afirms that the N1ncio told him who "soas"-
not who "acouM be- called to place in the Cab-
net. But, adds the Star, &C Mr.. Rayner is not res
Donsible for any inexact reports of the newspaper
press, of what he may have said" We agree with
he Star, and therefore again refer readers to
Mr. Rayners own letter to Mr. Ellis of date July 49,
But the Star, speaking for Mr.. Rayner, fails back
apon the " alarming" fact that the Nuneio heard,
before Mr. Barringer did, of Mr.. CampbelPs appoint