Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-08-29
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hQOW-NQtuluS CudIS6 tudG LuGE6 Was @
bargain between Gen. Pierce and the Ca
tholics, by which the latter were to sup
port the former for the Presidency, and
he was TO reciprocate the favor by ap>
pointing one Of their church members to
one of the cabinet Offices. The evidence
by which they sought tot prove this charge
was, that the Pope's Nuncio at Madrid
had informed Mr.. Barringer. the former
American minister to Spain, before the for
nation of the cabinet, that Mr.. Campbell,
a Catholic, would be appointed Postmas,
ter General. This charge and the proof
was first started by Kenneth Rayner and
the editor Of the Washington Organ, and
hawked all over the country by Knows
Nothing editors and orators. Mr.. Bar
ringer, finding himself occupying the
awkward situation of sponsor for bare>
faced falsehood. although political friend
of those gentlemen, wrote the following
letter, relieving himself of the odium of
being the originator of the charge, Yet,
Notwithstanding this denial, Know Moth
ing editors still repeat the assertion by
saying "thas there is something extreme
ly suspicious; to say the best of it, in the
haste with which the news is transmitted
to the Holy Father, of the appointment
of one Of his church members to an i'm
portant political position in the American
Republic" although, the probable reason
why the Nuncio had the earliest informa-
ton on the subject, is fully explained in
Mr.. Barringer's letter. We are prepared,
however, to make great deal of allow
ance for the temerity with which our
opponents stick to the charge. 1t is the
last of large bundle of electioneering
humbugs they have invented, and when
this is wrested from them. their whole
stock in trade is gone and another lot will
have to be manufactured. Desperation
will drive men to acts which their cooler
movements would not sanction. The fol-
lowing is the letter; we publish an extract
from it some time ago, but as some Of our
rk-lantern friends might not have seen
it, we now publish the whole Of it.
SARATOGA, July %, 1855.
DEAR Sir 81 did not receive till last
evening your note of the 18th instant, adj
dressed to me at Baltimore, and covering
your card to the public, in which refers
ence is made to conversation between
the Nuncio of the Pope at Madrid and
myself, about the appointment of Mr..
Campbell as member of the present
Cabinet at Washington. If had sooner
seen or heard of the contents of your
card, 1 should have deemed it my duty to
reply at once to that portion of it which
refers to myself and TO this matter.
You are mistaken as to the purport Of
the remarks made to me by the represen-
tative of the Pope at Madrid. It was not
that he knew beforehand that Mr.. Camp,
bell would be appointed, and as mem.
Der of the Catholic Church, or that he
knew anything about it before the ap.
pointment was actually made. What
have said, and what repeat is, that be.
fore l had any certain news of the forma
nation Of the Cabinet, and while its con
stituton was still in doubt, and the sub
Iject Of conjecture in the public mind a
Madrid, he told me that Mr.. Campbell
was appointed, and that he was a Catho
lie which was the first information
had Of either fact.
I did not at all suppose that he hac
any previous knowledge of an intention
to appoint this gentleman to Office, or tina
he knew, or had any reason to believe i
was done, in pursuance of any bargain O.
intrigue to this effect on the part of any
persons whatsoever.
The inference l made was, that the ap
poinLmept of Catholic to this high Of
fee being, naturally a cause of much
interest and satisfaction to the church O
that faith, especial pains had been takel
in some quarter to communicate the ear
lest intelligence Of that fact to the leading
members Of the Catholic priesthood.
1t is proper to add that, having seen il
a Raleigh paper brief. and what appear
ed TO be an imperfect report of the speecl
recently made in Washington by the Hon
Kenneth Rayner, in which there occurred
a similar statement, though somewha
different in detail from that contained il
your card, and in which my name was
quoted as authority, took the earlies
opportunity, on the 9th inst, to write hin
a note for the purpose of correcting thu
erroneous impressions which might so
readily be made on the public mind. how
ever unintentional, from such reference
10 casual conversation in social inter.
course, without written statement of thu
facts.
am, truly. yours, &C.,
D. NJ. BARRINGER.
To YEsPAs1AN ELLIS. Esq, Washing
ton city.
ANOTHER HUMBUG FROM BAaNUM-
Barnum has issued prospectus for new