The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-07-29
From the Washington UniOn
The First Wing Abolition and Seward Plot
Exposed and Exploded.

From the Washington UniOn.l
The First Wing Abolition and Seward Plot
Exposed and Exploded.
The Republic copies yesterday, from two
abolition papers in New Hampshire, certain
letters purporting to have been printed in
January last, containing extracts from
speech of Gen. Pierce, in which he is charg-
ed with having taken ground against the
principles of the fugitive slave law! The
country will observe that the witnesses to
this shameless charge are abolitionists of the
vilest stamp-men whose lives have been de-
voted to the cause of disunion-men who
have felt the powerful antagonism against
their hellish designs Of such patriots as Frank
lin Pierce, and who now, as in January last,
kafaed and beaten, coWed and overthroWu,
invent the most reckless falsehOods against
the man and the men who have crushed their
base and unholy combinations against the
constitution of the United States. The men
who conduct the shameless sheets upon which
the Republic relies are in the last degree
unWhorthy and vile; their vituperations of
Pierce are such as they have poured out up
on all men who have espoused the cause of
the Union; and their irreverent ISLANDERS
strike not only at the patriotic living, but al
SO at the illustrious dead. They are the
worst jackalls even Of the party Of jackalls,
and belong to those outlawed knaves who,
in the press and from the rostrum, have
proclaimed Washington dealer in human
flesh, Jefferson liar, and the constitution
ga league with the deviP' and ga bond with
hell" We speak on the authority of the
most respectable public men of New Hamp-
shire when we say that the character for
truth and veracity Of the two journals cited
by the Republic is infamous.
These are the witnesses of the Republic,
the chosen organ of Gen. Scott. These are
the witnesses who are to convince the South
! that Gen. Pierce is false to that fealty to the
constitution which has been his day-star-
! the passion of his whole political existence
the very cornerstone of his political faith.
! For shame for shame! If this self-refut-
. ing falsehood does not stagger those who re-
/, tail it, the character of its dishonored and
= reasonable authors should induce them tC
J cast it from them as if there were pestilence
! in the touch. That it is false-false in the
general-false in the detail-false in every
aspect in which it can be discussed-falst
from the beginning to the end-we have tn,
authority of those who know Gen. Pierce
personally for saying; who knew Of tn
speech here alluded to, and who declare tina
: no such language as that attributed to hin
or ever fell from his lips at any time, on an,
te occasion, from his first entrance into publ
O. life down to this hour. But this is not all
ed The charge is that Gen. Pierce denounce
as the fugitive slave law in terms "to satisf
Ell the abolitionists" at the very time when b
t; was laboring to throw overheard Mr.. A
d, wood for a breach of party faith as pledge
is by the democratic party of New Hampshii
d. to the maintenance of the Compromise
a These witnesses themselves testify that
at the same speech in which they falsely charG
en- Gen. Pierce as denouncing the fugitive Lax
IN, he spoke of the passage and maintenance
he the compromise measures as essential to tt
asst safety of the Union. In his letter of acceE
eb- ance, Gen. Pierce tells the country, over b
we own signature, that there is 'no act or wol
ac- of his life" in opposition to the declaratiC
Ids of the democratic resolutions, that the repe
u.s. of the fugitive law would be incompatib
lri- with "6delity to the requirements of the co
ep- stition." Yet one of these abolition witnt
Nv SEES produced by the Republic makes tt
a. statement:
ne "Gen. Pierce Immediately replied:
ou | must answer the question, say no, l
t1u not have been asked if liked this
Tue gitive slave law l answered no, l lOath
OnS it. have almost revolving feeling at
OM' giving up Of slave; the law is opposed
= humanity"
The value of this testimony, and the loa
.oar some character of the tactics adopted by
,ce7 Republic against Gen. Pierce, may be co
AN. pretended at glance, when it is known Il
AN. at this very moment, in this very city,
Tov the same time that the Republics abohti
4. falsifers were reproduced to show that Pie
Int was hostile to the fugitive slave law,
i in Scott wings in Washington are circulate
.rco abolition testimony, from abolition pape
,for, to show that he was ever the devoted frie
hot of the South from the first, and that he
jim now in the keeping of the friends and
80 authors Of this very fugitive slave law.
ND Disgraceful as this exposure is, to the
the Fmerican press and to American politics,
- declare that the friends of Scott, headed
l lam the Republic, by Mr.. Seward, by Gree
.o and by MIR. Thaddeus Stevens, Of Penn
o oOs' vana, have got two sets of abolitionists
o O swear against Franklin Pierce-the one
b,,+ to swear that he is against the South,
pped TomploIlSe measu anu suo ~ - :.
aa.;o stepped to the lips in pledges to the So'
ON ~ that his congressional record presents an
! = that be regards the fugitive slave lawas a
0ort tai, if not the vital, spark Of the whole n
so;"I sures of adjustment. Let the country
. ~ at the spectacle, and let honest wings
eILI; s template the new shame which the manaI
.n o1 of the whig party have upon them.
aent: The Boston people are just now eng'
! for In solv;nO the nhilnsophv of n yerv M