The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-08-12
Cen. Pierce Defended

answer to a letter inquiring TO the moral con-
duct of Gen. Pierce. L is most satisfactory
answer to all the calumnes that have been fab
ricated by the wings about candidate and
show that he is entitled to the full and entire
confidence of the American people, not only on
account of his political popularity, but also for
his high social and moral qualities The writer
says:
E'You make inquiries respecting Gen. Pierce,
my honored townsman and neighbor, which 1
regard it both as pleasure and duty to answer
You know have never been political partisan;
or, if l have had any political preferences and
partialities, they have been in another direction
reckoning myself Whig rather than Demo-
crat What l say, therefore, is entirely free
from any political consideration or feeling
81 have known General Pierce personally
about twelve years, and, may say somewhat
intimately, as we have lived in the same neigh
borhood, have attended the same church, and
have been brought together almost every week
in going to our places of business. IF under
stand any maus character, think it IS that of
General Pierce, for he is so frank, generous and
open, that he is incapable of concellment. I
know of no man of such a generous nature, so
ready to sympathize with poverty and sorrow
and so liberal in relieving them. His heart and
hand are always open to whoever appeals to him
in distress; indeed, the appeal is not waited for
when the distress is known. In al his domes-
tic relations and social intercourse, and business
transactions in his large professional practice,
his life has been marked by purity, justice and
generosity. The breath of cersure has never
fallen, so far as l know, upon MIN; while his
character, in all these respects, is universally
admitted and admired
''Not only is Gen. Piorce firm believer in
Christianity a Divine revelation, but in its
highest and most peculiar truths, as a system
adapted to the moral condition of man, and
which alone can renew and save him. While he
is no narrow sectarian, but holors all good men
of every name, and ready to 90 them good, he
is an attendant at an orthodox Congregational
Church, and no one is more constant in his at
tendance or serious in his devotions For some
time he was teacher in the Sabbath School,
and have often seen him at the monthly con-
cert and other social meetings I have known
of his generous acts in relieving poor ministers,
unasked, and where he sought concealment
''Should Gen. Pierce be elected to the Presi-
dency, doubt not that he would carry to Wash,
ingtOn that reverence for religion and observ,
ance of its worship and Institutions which he
has so long shown here; and viii add, tough
this is not included in your inquiries, that the
White House was not honored with the presence
of a more accomplished, intelligent and truly
Christian lady In Mrs. Polk, than it would be in
Mrs. Pierce
1ou refer to 'rumors respecting the use of
Intoxicating beverages I viii first say in re-
ply, that in all my long and somewhat intimate
acquaintance with General Pierce | have never
known him to use ardent spirits nor have ev-
er seen him when 1 thought suspected he had
used 1T. In the next place l will say, that
knowing DR.. Thomas Chadbourne, one of our
most distinguished physicians, a total abstin-
ence man, and member of the church with
which General Pierce worships, had been for
years the family physician of General Pierce. l
took the liberty to hand him your letter. enclo-
sed IN note TO which L received the following
reply:
9 4 have attended General Pierce's family as
their medical adviser, more than seven years,
and the delicate health of Mrs. Pierce and her
son, during most of this period, has occasioned
an intimacy in the family, that hardly any 9TH
er circumstance could have done; and am free
to say, and l say it with perfect truthfulness,
that have never seen, in the family or out OF
1t, anything in the appearance of General Pierce
to excite in my mind a suspicion that he indul-
ged. in Incorporate habits, or anything that
would afford the least proof of the truth of the
reports alluded to-.
81 have now answered your inquiries, and
though no politician, take pride, as you do,
in New Hampshire men. and take pleasure
whatever the party to which they belong, in vim
dlcatiag their character from reproach
Very truly yours, your Friend and Bro
P. S.-You ask if Gen. Pierce, is straight
forward, honest man, who dares to what he be-
heVes to be right, anywhere and everywhere? :?
Gen. Pierce is universally known as a man OF
great decision and independence of character
and will do what he thinks to be his duty, in the
lace OF any consequence and though nominated
by party, he win be more than partisan, be-
ing in every inch and feeling, and impulse, a
national man, whose motto and watchword will
be that of our New Hampshire statesman. we
both honor and admire-'our country, the whole
country and nothing but our country"
Double Execution at Poughkeepsie.
Il Whfte HOman and Negro Hung.
PouGHKEEPsIE, Jnly so, 1852.
Ann Hoag (white) and Jonas Williams negro
this day suffered the eytraroa ,,orolt e a. = L.