The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-09-13
For the Nashville True Wing
The Barringer Statement.

man for captions He has wonderful faculty ID
fixing up head, so that the face viii look the way
he wants his readers to 60 and they understand ana
obey the sign SO well that some of them start on
directly, without waiting too see whether the body
goes the same way the head looks or not. Indeed
some persons become at once obstinate in their
opinion about what he proved in the body OF his
articles, from seeing the heading he has given them
In this way some persons are badly fooled Such
was the case OF a neighbor Of mine the other day.
In conversation, had occasion to speak of the
Barringer statement given in letter by Mr. Rayner,
which you published in your paper of the 10th OF
August But three days later, Mr.. Eastman charg'
ed that what was called the "Barringer statement, ="
as he represented it, was ''fase," and called 1t
"gun" and said it was spiked" and of course my
neighbor felt fully authorized 10 ridcule the state
ment contained in Mr. Rsyners letter which you
published in the Wing Ny ncighbor seemed to
consider it Zone of the most efficient iaisehoodS
used here BY the Know Nothings," and he said, Mr.
Barrenger never made any such statement-that
there was no such letter as the one referred TO- by
Mr.. Rayner-tbat it was all false-that he saw
Democrat in Nashville who said the whole matter
was got up at the Gazette ofice-that it started
there-that Nancy said it did-that he saw an ar
tice in the Nashville Union, and letter from Mr.
Barrnger, which showed that the whole matter was
an unfounded fabrication. Ny neighbor, however,
was willing to admit, as good authority, Mr.. Bar
ringers letter in the Uion for this was his depend
ence But in this letter, Mr.. Barringer says he
stock the earlies. opportunity on the 9th instant,
to write Mr.. Rayner note for the purpose of cor.
rectng erroneous impressions" and he speaks Of
the importance of ga written statement of the facts"
and in the same letter in the Union, he saysi "what
have said and what repeat, is, that before
had any certain news of the formation of the Cnbi-
net, and while its constitution was still in doubt,
and the subject of conjecture in the public mind at
Madrid, be (the Pope's Nuncio) told me that Mr.
Campbell was appointed, and that he was Catho-
lie; which was the first information had of either
facts"
Thus, Mr.. Barrenger's statement, published in
the Union, proves the truth of the statement
which you published in the Whig, where he
Gays, "Before l had any authentic and GER
tain news of the formation of the Cabinet, and
while it still subject of conjecture at the Court
of Madrid, he (the Pope's Nuncio) told me that
Judge Campbell, of Pennsylvania, was appointed
and that he was Catholic; which was the first in
formation had either of his appointment or bis
religion" Thus you see that the very document
which my neighbor depended upon to sustain his
assertions proves every one of them false In this
way many persons are misled and fooled by looking
at the head which Eastman puts to his articles,
without knowing any thing about the body and the
head looks one way while the body goes another
so that one might be diseased and the other not
catch it. Indeed, in the present case, the head
shows symptoms of modification, while the body is
sound.
1t appears from this letter of Mr.. Barringer that
some persons "were mistaken as to the purport of
the remarks made" and in order to be correctly
understood, be gave " statement of the facts in
letter to Mr.. Rayner, and he repeats his state
ment in his letter to Mr.. Ellis, which is published
in the Union. But when he informs us what he
did not say, we find not one word of it in the state
ment in your paper of the 10th, (which has been
used here by the Know Nothings." He does not
deny one scord Of the statement an The Wing, which
Mr.. Rayner says he gave "Uerbatim from letter.
This statement have spoken of frequently, in con-
versation with my neghbors, and it is bad enough,
in urhat il implies, without making it any worse.
Mr.. Barringer seems willing to administer some
consolation, when ne says: / did not at all sup
pose that he had any previous knowledge of an in
tention to appoint this gentleman to Office, or that
he knew or had any reason to believe it was done,
in pursuance Of any bargain intrigue to this ef
feet, on the part Of any persons whatsoever"
In speaking of the statement, have never said
what Mr.. Barringer Supposed or did not suppose
and if you have, l have never seen it.
As to any 'fnference" which Mr.. Barringer drew
in the case, he only says; ''The inference made
was, that the appointment of Catholic TO this
high Office, being, naturally, cause of much in
terest and satisfaction to the church Of that faith
especial pains had been taken in some quarter, to
communicate their earliest intelligence of that fact
to the leading members Of the Catholic Priesthood"
We are obliged to agree with Mr.. Barringer in
the inference he made about the interest and salts
faction, and the especial pains taken in some quar-
ter to communicate the earliest intelligence TO the
leading members Of the Catholic Priesthood.
The statement naturally leads US to remark, that
the agents Of the Pope must be highly favord to
have the means of knowing about the formation Of
our Cabinet in advance Of an American Minister,
at a foreign court so that while the constitution Of
the Cabinet was still in doubt, and the subject of
conjecture 10 the public mind, the Nunco could
enlghten the public mind, and the mind of our
Minister also, and that too, on affairs Of vital inter
est to the nation. Here is the point-It seems that
the Popes Nuncio had MEANS Of information which
the public and the AMERICAN MINISTER did not
hare.
But We suppose Mr.. Pierce must have the liberty
Of giving his peculiar favortss the preference; aud
be has shown very strong dislike to Americans
and American principles, even such as were advo.
Gated by Washington and the most eminent Ameri-
can patriots. Attic present time, il would not be
strange II matters involving the very existence of
the Government should be known to agents of the
Pope in advance Of American Ministers, because