Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-09-30

he perusal of ''the men of the South?'
Just do it and we promise to make as large
extracts from your columns, whenever you
do so, as we have done to day.
" Prentice, of "The Journal" is per-
feet old war-horse, and like that regiment
Of British cavalry which was mounted upon
the large half-breed draft horses of Eng
land, at the battle of Waterloo, he makes the
ponies of the Democratic press squat, or
rather faint, whenever he charges Them
He is pronounced by every one of them to
be the greatest liar in America; yet strange
as it may seem, whenever one Of these lit
tie fellows puts his accusation into anything
like tangible form, he is sure to have the
lie fastened upon himself When he said
that Frank Pierce had not actually been in
single battle in Mexico, the whole Demo-
cratic press of the Union, and all the little
stump orators and grog shop politicians
came down upon him like pack of hungry
wolves. Some swore to one thing and some
to another; but unfortunately for poor Frank
and for their own reputation, such was
their extreme anxiety to vindicate their
candidate, that they did not take time to
compare notes, and the result was, no two
of them deposed alike. To give the coup de
grace to the whole batch, afer each had de-
livered his fire, their batteries were silenced
by the production of Pierces own reports,
which substantiate in every particular all
that Prentice had at first said of him. So,
when Prentice accused Pierce of having
free soil predictions, the whole pack, as
usual, yelped out, sit is nothing but one of
his lies again" Well, how does the matter
stand upon investigation? Why, that Frank
has, on more occasions than one, given most
decided said and comfort 10 abolitionists,
and that he is not only the peculiar pet of
every prominent abolition press in the Union,
but is the regular house pig Of the Van Blu
rens. We append some extracts from the
Journal touching these matters, that our
readers may see how matters stand away
down East, in Pieree's own State and neigh
borhood. If there is not something rott7,
in the State of New Hampshire, there are
no wooden nutmegs.
''John Van Buren,, in his speech at Hills
borough, n. H., said that there was nothing
inconsistent in his present position of support
of Gen. Pierce wHh his course in '4S ,rhen he
trent for The Buffalo platform. He said this
after long interview with Gen. Pierce.
Mark the declaration. John Van Buren,
announced in '4S that he would never sup
port any man for the Presidency who would
not pledge himself TO do everything in his
power to rid the country of slavery; and he
now says that there was nothing in that an.
nunciation inconsistent with his present sup.
port of Pierce. He declared after the close
of the campaign Of '48 that he and his fol.
lowers were going into the Democratic par.
ty with no other view than TO make that par.
ty the great anti-slavery party of the nation
and he now says that there is nothing il
that declaration inconsistent with his pres
ent support of Pierce. As he has had ;
better opportunity than most of us of kno,o
ing Pierce, the Democrats are welcome t.
regard him as good authority in this matter
We will not undertake TO say that it is a
all inconsistent in an abolitionist of lS49 ant
an abolrtionist of 1852 to support man fo
the Presidency who declared in 1850 hi
"oppos'tion 10 Slavery under achateuer circum
Stances"
John Van Buren,, in his Hillsborougl
speech, declared that "they (the Democrats
deteSted Slaugy and wW not uphold any la,
10 preserve that institution" Yes, he sal,
this in General Pierce's own State, at
meeting of General Pierce's own Democrat
ic friends and neghbors, and the very da'
after long talk with Gen. Pierce himself
1t was declaration that the Democracy vii
not uphold the fugitive slave law or any Law
to sustain slavery. And, if the Democrac
: will not sustain any law 10 uphold slavery
then slavery. if the Democracy be in power
must be abolished. John Van Buren's de
claraton is as strong and obnoxious an Alb
clifton declaration as could be uttered. lie
no Democrats undertake TO say that hi
speech at Hillsborough has been preverte
-we take it as reported in abe Democratic OF
, ganS themselves.
A good many of the people of the Sout
t appear 10 be asleep now, but we guess the
will get walked up by and by. We thin
they all understand, that, in the event G
Pierce's election, John Van Buren, is to b
: one of the guiding spirits of his administra
: ton. And what will be the condition an
r prospects of the South when the man whc
declared in 1850 that he was opposed t
slavery under whatever circumstances,
shall be in the Presidential chair and sha
have as one of the master spirits of his ad
5 ministration the man who declares that tn
Democracy will never sustain law to W
hold slavery?
: PRooF CoRREcTIoNs.-The Washingto
, Union says of the life of Gen. Pierce:-
"Hawthorn's life of Pierce is out, and is Q