Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-08-22
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copy, because it is private Z? Astprseate letter "
indeedi Wdy, then, If this be so, did he publish a
portida.ef 1t an the =. Aassrican Organs It,was
privatep just so far as he chose to eonsiderit So
and public just far as he chose to consider it pub
lic. He could garble itAhe could suppress all oft
that suited his purposes to suppress for twas his
own :" private'' property, and this though it was
used to substantiate agravepublic charge, and was
rendered thereby public property sdch view of
the matter-such excuses amount but to confessions
of guilt = -: A. -: $50 - : l< .
~ But we go further. We now proceed to prove.
from A' Rayners oaon letter to Mr. Ezzs, Gin anoth-
ertcolumn, which examine carefully tAat there Is
~esaeit.. 1r- ~....
M7. Baaranger, or that Mr. Rayaer has grossly mss-
represented that gentleman. - = x -. -,
Mr.. Rayner says: ".About four weeks since, on
my return from Philadelphia, I met Mr. Barringer
in Baltimore and in course of conversation with him,
mentioned the fact that I had taken occasion to
speak publicly of what he had said to me about the
Pope's Nanco 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 one man that seou1a be in the Cabinet"
&c. This says Mr.. Rayner in his letter to Mr. Ellis,
says Mr.. R., "repled that EMr. r. had stated the
matter correctly" Immediately after this Mr. Rayner
quotes from Mr. Barrngers 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 still
a subj ect of conjecture at the Court Of Madrid he
(the Pope's Nunco) told me that Judge Campbell,
of Pa, acas appointed, and that he Catholic"
&c. There it is-''acouM be and "acds"' And yet
Mr.. Rayner has the unb1ushing effrontery to say
in this same letter, and Immediately after making
this extract from Mr. Barringer and with the state
ment above of the conversation with Mr.. Barringer
in Baltimore fresh from his pen-that this is the
statement, (referrng to the extracD as Ihad giren
1T, arhen allading to 1T In public y! Why reader,
look at it. and see if i. is true. In place he says
Mr.. Barr'nger agrees that it was !" a5euld be '-in
another he makes Mr. Barrinser say, in the extract,
that it acds that is il Baltimore Mr.. Barringer
said the Nunco told him in Madrid who "acouM be"
in the Cabinet, and at Niagara Falls according to
Mr.. Rayner, Mr.. Barringer says be told him in Mad
rid who cas appointed ~ and this latter statement,
says Mr. Rayner, is what have given when allud-
ing to it in public and not the statement Ireceved
from Mr.. Barriuger in Raleigh, repeated to him in
Baltimore, and by him confirmed! Was there ever,
according to this view of the matter, balder or
bolde: case of equivocation and alsehood9 But did
Mr. Barringer make the statement he says he did, at
Raleigh and Baltimore, and afterwards shrink from
it? Has he equivocated? Will Mr.. Rayner charge
that he has? We cannot tell bat 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 SHOW that he, Mr. Rayner, has been deceived and
mislcd throughout this whole affair. We cannot be
mistaken in estimate of the character of the
| man. The fate of gallant Eastern Whig-Mr
Stanly-who was Slaughtered" in the Wing Con-
yention of ls4s 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.. Bar: niger to similar doom. Let Mr.. Barringer
and his friends be upon their guard!
But the Star, as we have stated, is endeavorng to
pervert the facts and change the issue for Mr. Ray
ner Referring to Mr.. Barringer and Mr.. Rayner, it
says: -..,
'There is no issue of veracity between them
not the least Mr.. Barrngers letters to MIR. Rayner
and to Mr. Ellis, both fully confirm and sustain Mr.
| RS statement, viz, That the Popes Nuncio told
Mr.. Barriiger before the news of the formation OF
| Mr. Pierce's Cabinet cached Madrid, and whilst it
| was in doubt and subject of conjecture 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 his oaon letter to
Mr.. Ellis, he distinctly and unequivocally declares
that Mr. Barringer told him (Mr. r. that the Nunco
said to him (lr. b. that he could tell who "aoouM
| be, in the Cabinet mot who ''aoas." Again, as
our correspondent understood Mr.. Rayner to read
from Mr. Barringers letter of the 9th July, at Wei
| don, Mr.. Rayner made Mr.. Barringer say that the
! Nunco told him 'that he knew one who acould be
4 member Of the Cabinet "-and eur 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
I er had informed him that the Nuncio told him who
,ooud be member of Gen. Pierce's Cabinet. -
Mr.. Barrnger ''confrms nothing that Mr.. Rayne'
has said; on the contrary, both in the extract which
9lr. R. has published, and in his letter of July 23d
from Saratoga Springs, addressed to Mr.. Els--ane
which the Register and the Star. no doubt under
Mr.. Rayner's advice haze not pentured to lay 6etor
thtir readers-Mr Barringer expressly and distinct
+ ly afirms that the Nuncio told him who !" aoas D.
not who "aoousd'b be called to place in the Cabi
net. But adds the Star, Mr. Rayner is not res
ponsible for any inexact reports Of the newspape
press, of what he may have said" We agree Will
the Star, and therefore again refer our readers t.
Nj Rayner's own letter TO Mr. Ellis Of date July
But the Star, speaking for Mr.. Rayner, falls bacl