Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1852-08-21
For The Baton Rouge Gazette.

WEeN Uus u shfie'oH teFV's
Of A. M. Dunn. Esq, delivered before The
Pierce and King Club, on Friday nighf,o'
9th Inst. This .peecl, IL 4 curious speci'
men Of logic, an anomalous aggregation Of
assertion md DENNIS, such M ~ not every
dry iistled up TO the taste Of the " inter.
rifed' IN this region. The Advocate calls
this report "an outline" of the spcecl' /;
and II ID MI gutisne with a vengennce.--
IF Major Dunn's reputation ns MI orator.
or us n politician, depends nfyn ibis report
Of wl,at he said OIL that OCCASION, ! should
fear, were | nh intimate friend OF his, that
lie world lnve gopl cause to escluim,
"rre=crve me from being reported, and
from oil newspapers keep me away Tic
Major begins by saying Pierce Is known
to history az a cirihian. THIS may be
but II so happens that his fame could not
have been pcyy great, sven among the De.
mocracy, else would the Democratic pa
pers have made fewer blunders IN hoist.
ing l,ia ian,e, some getting IL f. Pierce,
SOME L. IL. Pierce, md other some, igno.
runt Of the initials Of lis name, put It &c.
neral Pierce 1Iad 1t been Glass;, every
scl,ooI.boy in the land would have known
who he was. Had IL been Buchanan,
Douglass, Ifonsso n, Van Buren. or even
Mr.. hing, there would have been no
doubt, no error as to the mmo aud the
proper Initials. But this Is Of little con.
sequence, 80 far MS the issue IL involved !;
but serves 10 slow tl,at History has not
had so much to do In recording the deeds
Of Mr.. Pierce, as TO Ienve The people per.
fectly acquainted with his name. or Gen.
Scott, the Major has u very poor opinion,
and attempting tho same old game Of mis-.
representing him, to- make him avow son.
timen,s and declare opinions adverse to tho
South. From this pnrt Of the Majors
speech, wherein lte tells ,s OF Scots hbo.
litionis,n, the Major seems TO entertain the
iden that there ~ ~ 0thcy partof this great
country except "Me South"-,bat to be
acceptable to the people at all. n candidate
must no idea In reference 10 any other sec
ton except the SoAth--tI,at The growing,
thriving, and industrious East. the mighty
Northwest, and the far.oT Territories
should have no thought, no consideration
no notice whatever. from The man who II
10 receive The votes Of Southern men,.
This Is evidently Mr.. Dunn's opinion, else
why does he luy such stress upon the
sonndness and unsoundness Of the candi
dates. The Major goes ON 10 sny. 'hat u,
n mntter Of course, because WIN. II. Sew
ard fvors the election Of Scott, there nns
be Aboiitionists in The Generals cabinet
II he Is elected. This is not vtyy concln
sive argument but take IL ~ nh opinion
merely, by n purity Of reasoning Mr. Pierce
must have some Ffoeso5fers in his cnbine,
If the Democrats elect him, because mos
Of the Northern Ffeesoilers who in 1915
supported Van Buren, aud Adams, nou
Enthusiastically rupport Pierce and King
and will not they want a voice in the Ad.
minisira.ion which they labored and stri.
we'd TO elect? Or nre these Democratic
Freesoilers Mt the North more waArtosi.
and less sell. interested than the few Wing
Fsccsoilers of whom the Major has such a
holy horror! Why don't the Major. in
his newborn zeal in the political field.
frankly and fairly ayow aX the truth IN
regard to these deluded FreesoiIers and
Abcii ioDis.s ut the North, and inform The
brotherhood into which, he has recently
been admitted, and is now a powerful nd.
junct, that all the strongest, most talent.
ed, and ambitious Democrats at the North
are all and singular tainted with Freesoil.
ism, and that wien he Is casting his
bricks" at the house of Whiggery," he
is likely TO have his own glass house
demolished by a struggling missile from
the foe. Why don't Mr. Dunn tell the
Pierce and King Club, Of which he is a
member, that B. +. Halletf. j. T. Butler
John and Martin Van Bnren, WIN. Cul
len Bryant, A. P Cleveland, and Preston
King, all sturdy leaders in the Freesoi
and Abolition ranks OF 1913, are nov fight
ing Justify in the ranks Of Pierce and
King, leaving but here and there a strag.
Cling Freesoiler to the support Of Scott, OF
tile third ticket, which it is expected viii
be composed of former leading aud infu.
entail Democrats? Alb, MIR. Dunn. is il
in this shabby ard loose way you examine
a witness in importans cases, where it is
really necessary you sl,ould. know "the
truth, the aOhole truth, aud nothing In
the truth Tie Major has some repn.
tation as an attorney, but this sample o
bis own evidence, against Scott and in IA
vor Of Pierce, as reported by the Advocate
If a fair sample Of his statement Of causes
wherein he is an advocate, l would no
very willingly commit such a case to hi
{ hands. But en- PEASANT, there is one bole
assertion Of the Majors in this speech, al
reported in the Advocate, which tn
Wings should ponder well. II is e start
ling, 60 unqualified, so ominous, that w
call upon Wings evevyaoheye, North a
well as South, to pause and consider upol
what they are doing. Hear, oh we Wings
and give ear, lest in such an hour as y
know not, sudden destruction, defeat ant
overthrow, come upon you. Says thu
Major, "the election of Scott will be thu
signal aud ignominious 0revthyoU Of til
Wig party" What does this mean