Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-05-30
Messrs. Miller and Barringer.

at was so piping hot the other night and the
speaker dragged so heavily, that we did not hear
Mr. Miller speak more than five minutes" Such is
the Of the Editor Of the Register for not hear
ing the whole of Mr. Millers great speech on Monday
night The weather. it seems, was too hot The
truth is, the words of the speaker and the facts he
brought out were too hot for our neighbor. Like
Felix. he was disposed to wait for some more Icon
venient season"
We have the pleasure of informing our neighbor
that expect to publish in next the geater per-
ton of Mr. Millers speech on the occasion referred
to; and we invite our neighbor to notice the speech
and answer it through the columns Of his paper
The hot weather will not prevent the Editor from
noticing the speech in print He can select his time
when the weather is not piping but only E:oder-
ately hot; and then, with coat off, good supply of
pens, and comfortable noggin of iced lemonade, he
can 90 "deep into the bowels" of the speech
Come, neighbor, you must do it. The public ex-
pect it We know that you are as able as most
writers for the press but you will need help in this
work. Mr.. Miller's friends will not complain if you
call in Messrs. Badger Rogers, and Battle to your
aid The speech will bear the ansuer Of all Of them
But our neighbor, having disposed of Mr.. Miller's
speech in five minutes account of the piping hot"
weather, takes up our feowcitizen the Hon. Daniel
NJ. Barringer and proceeds to notice him in no very
good-natured way. He applies such chaste and
classic terms to him as renegade Wing "-"vener-
able statesmen" by way of ridicule-"ring master
during Mr.. Miller's performance and 1.-THE venera-
BILE preservation" &C. Our neghbor is offended with
Mr. Barringer because the latter united himself with
the national Democratic party, and would not 60
with him into the culvert with SAM" When the
old Wing party dsbanded Mr. Barringer co-opera-
ted honestly and openly with great national par
tv, and not with faction which rose on the ruins
of Whiggery, and which, next to black Republican,
ism, has done more to sectionalize and injure the
country than any faction that has existed since the
Constitution was formed. If he had "renegaded"
to the Know Nothings, as neighbor did and then
back to the Whigs and then over to the OPPOSITION
ists and then to the Constitutional Union party
as our neighbor has DONE he would have been very
consistent politician, and we should have heard
nothing of those chaste expressions now applied to
him by the Register. That paper will make moth
ing for its by the temper and manner in which
it is pursuing Messrs. Miller and Barringer.
The Register says that Mr.. Barringer asserted
at former meeting of the Democracy that Edward
Everett was no statesman" This is mistake
Mr. Barringer has made no such assertion. He said
that Mr.. Everett was admitted to be an orator, a
scholar, and statesman but he was more an orator
and scholar than statesman Every intelligent
person will agree with Mr. Barringer in this opin-
ion. Indeed, Mr.. Everett is quite as good preach
er as he is statesman. Mr.. Barringer on the coca
sion referred to, so far from undertaking Mr. Ever
etts abilities, expressed his surprise that he had
been assigned the second position on the ticket
He was not prepared to see Edward Everett playing
second fiddle to John Bell.