Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1852-09-15
Gen. piercc's speech in Isas.

I5ib Di.trirt-T NJ Gully, Of Ohio.
Gen. Piercc's speech in 1898.
The rea der Will find IN our paper to-day a
speech delivered In the Senate Of the United
States, .to0rteen gears ago, by Mr.. Pierce, the
Democratic candidate for the Presidency. II
purporrs 10 have been made in advocacy Of the
series of resolutions prefixed To it. announcing
certain general AID abstract principles bearing
upon the institution of Saveryand The rights Of
the Stltes. 1t will be observed. however,
hat The speaker confines himself To the discus
sion Of two propositions lst. The abolition of
Slavery in the District of Conmti1 and 2nd.
the power Of Congress TO legielatc upon Slave
ny in the States In addition. he INDUCES in
Expressions oiregrct that the aboiitiouists should
seek to connect their cause, with "the politics
Of the day and deprecates agitation aud the
dangerous excitement, which such course
would produce.
In regard to the term "oholilion,' it should
he borne IN mind, that 1t conveys different
meaning to the people of the North, from that
Which, is attached To it by the people Of the
South. There, such men as Garrison, Parker.
Gerrt Smith, Hale. Fred Douglas and the
ultra fanatics " o would accomplish their law.
ess designs by any mears, however foul.
or fraudulent, or vioIent.are considered the alb
olitionists-while those who seek to effect the
overthrow Of slavery by means within the lin
It's ofthe constitution and by legislation to its in
Jury, are not so regarded. To this latter class
belong all the Wmot Proysoiss-such, for
instance, MS the Democratic members of the
New Hampshire Legislature, in the year 1917;
every one OF whom, we have the authority Of
Gen. Perces organ. the n H. Patriot. for say.
ing, voted t,r resolution approving the votes
of their Senators and members of Congress-
all Democrats also, in favor Of the Wilmot
Proviso. These men do not consider them.
selves abolitio lists, nor does General Pierce
their leader, consider them-but we. of the
South, are bound TO reg nd all who cndeavor,
without the co operation of the Slave-owners
10 effect the extinction of slavery, whether by
10y peaceahle or iorcibe means, and whether
immediately or remotely, as abolitioni is.
The reader. therefore. will understand
that when New Hampshire Dernocrat de-
nounces the abolitionists-he thinks only of
Tappan, and Garrison, and Hale, and men of
that school, with whom he differs as Mr.. Mapp
tells us Gen. Pierce differed from Mr.. Hale.
as to the means to be employed to bring a
bout aboIi. ION, and only to that extent. Asto
the institution Of slavery itself the abolition.
isis of the peace policy, like Gen. Pierce. "hate
and deplore It as much as they who would dis
solve the Union ON account of it,
And here we would remark. in passing, that
the South has much less to fear from the fran
tic efforts of infatuated ianatics--than from the
calm and steady and continually encroaching
hostility of the moral suasion abolitionists.-
Those. who, beneath the shelter Of the constitu
ton, ply necessarily the implements of con
gressional cunning and Legislative artfce, may
undermine and vanquish us--but the fool.har.
dy zealots, Who work their catapults in omen
day, from every h;gher-law hillock, are not to
be dreaded. We know them and can easily
keep them at safe distance-but the noise
less enemy within the camp-that, mute and
mole-hke. woEks beneath the surface, NAV not
awaken our alarm. In India, the creature
ruost dreaded and destructive is not the ele
phant or tiger or bon. constructor; but a min
ute insect, known as the white ant-tbat
small and apparently harmless, stops at nothing
less impenetrabe than metal or stone, and cuts
IT'S way by myriads into every thing made of
wood. and delves at its unseen work of de.
struc'on until beam and rafter and column, are
reduced 10 shell, and the whole nbric falls.
So il the institution Of slavery is to be DESTROY.
ed. 1t will not be by the fierce assaults of mad.
I'nen and bi5nts-but by the minute inroads ell