Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-09-07
Il emit r ks of .sudxe Conrnd, ut the Ahnrri'-
burg 1lnss Convention.

and her mighty future-bu. for nothing more than
for her honest gratitude toour nations benefactors,
from Washington down to Scott /; ana :. IS with no
ordinary therefore, that greet and con-
graduate YOU on this proof the sons of the Key
stone are as ready to reward great deeds PAS to
achieve thc,n and that, if the bosom of her hills
mourn for our countrys loss, their brcws are rich IN
laurels for her champions. II
Before assembled this stand a respectable citi-
zen said to me, If you address u.s. forget that you
are Wing, and tell us-all party considerations
aside-tchy you ask us to vote for Gen. Scott
Forget that am Wing! When can forget that
franklin and Jefferson, w Washington and Clay were
Whigs-when ncani forget that if is a distinction
baptized in the pure blood of the revolution, and
hallowed by the genius and patriotism OF our coun-
try's noblest spiritS-when can forget that its
principles are the vital air which liberty breathes,
and that its policy is the palladium OF the union
and glory of the country-when my reason forgets
its Utmost convictions and my heart its hottest du
ties-when in short, myIight hand forgets her cum
ming, then, in that starless midnight of the mind
may forget that am Wing but till then, never.
1t is the political faith of truth and right-a faith
glorious alike in victory defeat, in good report
or evil report have given it my youth and man
hood; my health, hope and fortune; and having
thus long lived i'll and for it, will, if Providence
vouchSafeS me an unclouded reason, die by it.
But am also n Democrat-for n Democratic
Wing is the best of Democrats-and respecting the
sincerity of the that constitute the party to
which am opposed, Willingly comply with the
request 10 STATE uHy aSh yOuI NOttS bcHelal
Scott. For | do ask them-earncstly ask them.
believing that your dearest rights and interests
involved in your action. will speak frankly and
plainly, and trust that you will hear me without
prejudice and decide not for faction, but for the
right for pnblic justice and public gratitude.
I first ask your votes for Winfield Scott because
YOU are compelled TO choose between him and
franklin Pierce. Their is no other choice. To
vote for third candidates. the suicide of suffrage.
1t is to nulfy privilege and to skulk duty; it is
partra and the neutrality iS he
crime of slave. hold that Franklin Pierce is not
only inferior-how inferior!-to Gen. Scott, but
that he U.s. per and positively unfit for the Pres-
dency. Hear my reasons.
One of the most vital of the liberties of the peo
ple--one bought with blood, sancfied by time and
secured by charer--is the Right Of iPet;tion-a
right nestimab bic TO us. and formidable 10 tyrants
only No freeman would brook its abatement in
the weight ola hair. 1t was cheaply bought, and
would be cheaply preserved, with an ocean of
blood. Yet franklin Pierce, by his vote in Con-
gress, denied and sought to destroy that right
Therefore he sunft.
Equal in Sacrcdness TO that liberty-superior to
all eise-is Religious Freedom-the right TO
ship God without kneeling in fetters Franklin
Pierce is the leader of the party i'll New Hampshire
which denies that freedom to portion of her peo-
ple-no matter what portion-denies by constitu-
ticnal enactment. The party controlled the par
ty; but he neither exrrted that power, nor, when
occasion offered, opened his lips in out of the
Convention, to utter word, one poor word, for
the most sacred of human rights trampled down at,
ay uudcr his very feet. He is therefore unfit and
to ,eu,a,J him would he IN share his crime
tIa;sunft further hec,us,. he Ienresent. Mat
form of principles the most odious and Obstructive.
(Here some ofthe overcrowded benches fell, crca-
t;no , mom.ntorv confusiop That fall is omnouv
o" 81 rata 81 ~ nin,rIrn, anJ bic ra, srst
y. LII tamnia,sa and thn, ,he hn, IS
ing people. He unfit also because he allied, at
the South, with the rankest and most arrogant
foes Of the Union-men who would tear the Con-
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