The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-09-22
The Canvass OfFrauds. Tits LaeeSt
EnOrmifY.

we pronounced the wing canvass to be to al
unprecedented extent .'canvass of frauds" TIL
daily development Of wing trickrry and jugglin
since we 50 wrote has II uliiplied the proofs the
presented Of our assertion. In addition TO tn
.'corrupt- bargain -platfrm cheat by whc
G neral Scott was nominated; in addition
the ambiguity and equivocation Of his letter O
acceptance, including what purported to be nj
Geographic despatch addressed to the Senate
Jones, Of Tennessee, to be read in the VIII
Convention; IN addition to General Scots le
Ter OF IS48, addressed to R binson aud recent
branded by leading Scott j,nrnal (the Me-
York Courier and EoquireD as an electioneel
ing 'r-pudiation" OF General SCOTS realau
/ ,ngichershed native American s'convctions !;
in addition to the attempted denial on the foe
of Congress, without particle Of proof aud j
the face Of the most conclusive evidence,
General Scots authorship %. the "Amercus
paper published in the National Inteti,geneer I
1874, and prescribing the whole legislative pr
cess by which our foreign-bern population, q
their arrival among us, should, by act Of Con
gress, be deprived forever oftheir right TO vote
in addition to the dishonest appeal made to Ga
tholcs t. cast their votes for the only publ
man Of mark in this country. who, IN publish
ed letter in l84i, when native Americanism WI
raging, over his own signature deliberately il
suited the Catholic church by representing II
election ofthe Pipe to be an 'interestcd "bai
gain'-in addition to all these gross atiemp
to cheat people as to General Scotts opinio,
and position, we have seen, and have expose
TO public shame, whole series Of the base
frauds deliberately c, ncncted and perpeirate
by wing managers and organs against Gener
Pierce.
We have exposed the wing abolitionist col
spiracy to fnslen, BY false witness, upon Gel
Pierce the use Of language countenancing the
b,litionsts nno sshigher law" view Of the COZ
s'itu,onal legislation for the rendition Of fug
tive slaves. We have exposed the more recei
and, if possible, more flagrant infamy Of /.
elaborate attempt TO fasten, by equally fall
and shameless testimony, the charge upon Ge
eral Pierce that be 10 the foe Ut religious Libel
IN general, and Of the Catholic faith IN parta-
lar; when the whole record OF his eft rtfoa
the subject as is well known to The conntryAnd
has been admitted by his chief opponents, tnds
any such attempt a. an atrccious and ynton
calumny. We have seen two wing menars OF
Congress Introducing, over their on 81 gtures
a whole tissue of abolitionist columnie sgainst
Gen Pierce to the notice and crede nceof the
people Of North Carolina, III letter ctifying
certain port ms Of the same documentlby the
which, those calumnes were printed-e MEN,
brrs Of Congress we'll knowing that, bpany Of
the readers of the document, their attaation-
official attes' ation- would be regardeas certi-
flying the whole Of it, caIunines and ll. We
have exposed the monstrous falsehooc OF the
secret circular, issued and signed blythe wing
committee Of New York city, and entfo North
Carolina to operate upon the elecDn there by
he dissemination Of official state4en,s, known
to be utterly destitute Of truth. ito the polit.
cal condition Of the three greatitates of the
North.
On the basis Of facts like thsese have charg
ed, and we now repeat the;harge, that the
Seward,te ..hgh.r law" mp who have die,
tated the whole nomination nd got the control
Of the v hie party are sham,essly striving, in
their whole plan of canvass operations, to rob
the people ot this country ohhei' RICH. of in
te,lpent suffrage upon the homentous issues
now before them We char that IBIS attempt
has been made by systemac <-eries ct false
pretencrs and dece ptions, cnpocted and persis
ted in manner and to an exant utterly with
GU, precedent in our poltiei annals, making
this canvass, on the part ofhe wings, pre- emf.
nently "The Canuass Of Funds
But we now come to irtrcted wing fraud
which. in the proosness AID hagrancy OF lis
character. stands out odiossly prominent among
an The attempt. to deceive the people which we
have above enumerated;
The .cARD' which we give at length be-
low was sent in letter form from Washington,
md bea RS the post.nark Of Washington, Au.
anst iii" II also bears the frank IF msn,be,
Of cou0ress. achose printed Name appears sign.
ed At The Button, of The card in Question, in com.
NAM scith the other names giDen. The letter
nj Ian, in nh ,,,ri.
s ate. and came to lin free, under the frank Of
the member Of Congress in question. The
gentlemen to WHOM it was addressed thought it
his du.y to expos the fraud, and Immediately
sent il an to his representative in Congress, and
nv this latter gcSleman we are pur in posses
sion of the letle with it's post mark, date, and
frank. Here Dthe letter
y CARD.
To our eont;tsnts at inrge, and 10 all toho sup
mort the USpn and its Constellation, md the
Compromjes Of the people,
WAsHINGroN, August, 1852.
To yindiate ourselves, and TO prevent all
misappr, hrsson and mistake, we, the uncer-
siyned SECTORS, representatives., &c, in Con-.
Dress adoathis method of making ajoint state
ment to on constituents respectively, and to all
take gu. Fad who may take AL interest in the
sui.iect NAT we cannot and will not support
GenrrasPierce far the presidency as he NV
lands lcfnre the American people for the fol-
other reasons;
He ebsina,ely refused up to the time OF the
nom; pstion, to avow himself candidate, OF to
give he people any information wha,e ever eth
er repeciing his future policy or his personal
h,stsy, to know which lin advance) is with us
a qvs,ion OF paramount interest. Nor has be
sine his nomination done anything to throw
!iat upon this subject, or to indicate that he is
@ Stled 10 the votes of the American people for
az service vet rendered as presidential can
date.
4 1t is true the resolutions, OF the convention
vhich nominated him clearly democratic
nd strong against the federal party ano judici
us on the kossuth and Compromise questions
nut does Mr.. Pierce give them ''the approval oil
,,s iudgment ?" This he seems studiously and
vckedIy to have avoided. He accepts the nom
nation, and says that 18th, surprise with which
received the intelligence was mingled with
,aiuful soiicitude." That is, he takes The nom
nation as au ind ividual takes an estatc-(in
he can get it, And the only pledge
n cuarau;ee we have that he will be available
re the few and unfortunate "kno,cn incidents
# his experience in Mexico. This we regard
Is vitae matter with the democratic party
AMONG these "knomn incidents, there is not
mo go far as we are aware. which entities him
- bs called a general In one at least of his
,,hl;c sneeches he has himself expressed senti-
nen,s similar to this Since the nomination,
70 has suff.. red his name 10 be held up before
he neonle Of the several States as franklin w
oierc. Franklin H. Pierce, Franklin l.. Pierce,
franklin Pearce, Franklin l.. Price, B. Frank
in Pierce, and in other forms diseredltable to q
descendant Of the noble house Of Old Englands
lorthumber land Percys. And in the convent on
rhich conferred The nomination upon HIM, he
oade no objection to the use of his name by the
Of the South and the abolitonist1
f the North in that body to defeat General Cass,
Buchanan, and other democratic patriarchs, be-
ause If their firm adherence tn the ancien.
rinciples of federal democracy and the time
onored resolutions of '98 and ~.
To jnin such man and his friends, and aid
lem in completing their triumph over Old A
,erca, the Union If the States, the constitu
on, and the country, and all who have been
Heir tried and worthy friends, is what we can
ever do. The dictates Of duty and patriotism
.ernly forbid it,
We consider General Pierce as the favorite
andidate Of the free soil wing Of the democratic
arty, which has its vitality in such men as
lartin and John Van Bnren, Of New York /;
F. HaIlett and Robert Rantoul. of Massachu-
etts john P. Hale, of New Hampshire; Pres
On King, of New York /; David Wilmot, of
nnsyivania Senator Chase, Of Ohio; aud its
rgans in such abolition papers as the Evening
- .ul Ai~.n,. IL. W. r,r,rd xLo ,a,,t;