Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-05-15

As we expected, Cngman has been appointed
Senator from North Carolina. in place of Biggs,
sianed. This is the State which has been represent
ted in the Senate by Mangnm, and Badger, and Ora
ham! FuciHs descensus- Lynchburg Fiaginian.
It used to be fashionable with the Federalsts to
underrate Democratic statesmen, and to that
Federal Whgsery embraced within its folds "all the
talents and all the decency." That day, however,
has gone by; and it is only now and then that we
hear as from the Viryiniam, that leading Demo-
Gratis are not the equals in attainments of leading
Federaists.
We admit that Messrs. Biggs and Reid not
such orators as Mangum, nor such rhetoricans as
Badger but in respect to judgment and sound States
manship they will not suffer by comparison with
any former Senators from this State. Judge Man.
gum, respected and beloved by his neigtbors, and
now near the grave, was man of great power with
the masses in his day; but he was deficient in judg
ment and in steadiness of purpose. If he had "run
ven"-f he had adher, to Andrew jackson and
Democracy, and Iabored to improve his great natural
endowments as he might have done, there is po
stion in the Republic to which he might not reason
ably have aspred. Mr.. Badger is an able lawyer
and an accomplished rhetorcian but in this respect
he is not superior to Robert Strange, former DEM
ocratic Senator while in point of judgment, will
and common sense he falls below Bedford Brown,
also former Democratic Senator, and Messrs. Bggs
and Reid. We look at things as they are, and not
as they have been represented by the Wing press
and by the fulsome batteries bestowed upon such
men as Mangum and Badger in former years. As
for Mr.. Graham, he has always been overrated. He
is good lawyer and an able man but he is neither
aWebser, Gallatin, nor Clay. Much of his sue
cess is due to the fact of his being member of the
bar and to his prudence his selfshness, and steadi
ofpurpose.
Thomas L. Clingman, recently appointed to sue
coed Mr. Bggs is statesman in the fullest sense of
the word. He already possesses a national reputa
ton, and is quite the equal in attanments and ab
ity of any member in either house of Congress from
Virginia South Carolina We say Virginia and
South Carolina, because it is customary in certain
circles to claim monopoly of talent for these two
States their Southern sisters. But the other
day. in the House of Representatives, Mr.. Bocock,
Virginia member, in his eulogy Senator Evans,
spoke of the great men of Carolina thus COM
pletely ignoring the existence of North Carolina.
The sneers of the Virginian are not in the best
taste, and will not affect those at whom they are d.
reeted. If Mr.. Cngman belonged to the opposition,
and if he had been appointed by Know Nothing
Governor we should have had concentrations from
the Vuginlan instead of remarks designed to dis
palage and underrate him.
1t is well known that MIR. McRae has been induced
10 take his present position independent can
ddate by the urgent solicitations Of many of his
eilow-cltizens of both partes.-Register.
We challenge the Register to point to the first
good Democrat who urged Mr.: McRae to become
candidate. Mr.. Venable, Mr.. Archibald n. AIRING
ION, and Mr.. L. N B. Battle may have urged him to
take the field; but no Democrat is regarded good
and true who confers with the opposition, and plots
against the organization and the usages of the party
name your men, Mr.. Syme. Let US know who the
traitors are If Mr.. Venabe, and others who might
oe mentioned, should dare to set themselves up
against the organized action of the Democratic par
y, Or to question in public any of its well known
pnc'ples they will be sifted as the Devil desired
-" slit Peter" like wheat" The chaf will be
a. once wnnowed from the good grain and cast out
De trodden under foot of men," The Demo.
Hauc party of the State is now strong enough for
' useful purposes, and it can afford, if necessary,
"purge its ranks of the treacherous and the I'M
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