Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-08-26
Let Those Interested Read the
following.


GEN. PIERCE AND THE CATHOLIC
TEsT.-Mr. w. E. Robinson, web known
as the .Richelieu" of the New York Tri-
bune, having been to n. H., for the pur-
pose of examining the official records of
that State with reference to Gen. Frank
lin Pierce's connection with the Catholic
Test, has delivered an able speech at
Wing meeting in N. Y, giving the result
of his investigations.
Mr.. Robinson laid down the following
assertions, and so ernest was he in chal-
longing an investigation, that he annonn-
ced that he would deposit, in the hands OF
Simeon Draper, one hundred dollars, to
be forfeited and given up to any one that
would prove that in. any one of these
propositions he mis-stated the facts. The
decision to be left to Robert Emmett
1. Franklin Pierce did not speak at
all in favor of Catholic Emancipation
during the whole time the Catholic test
was before the Convention.
2. He had nothing to do with 'bring
ing forward''the subject. The resolution
abolishing the test was drawn up by Mr..
Parker, of Nashua, Whig and was
drought forward by Mr. Parker, No
vember 13, when it was discussed in Con-
vention.
3. 1t was known throughout New
Hampshire that Catholic Emancipation
was finally defeated by an overwhelming
vote, some or 10 weeks before Mr..
O'Conner spoke in Tammany Hall.
4. When religious Liberty needed a
champion, Gen. Pierce was found-want
ing. Though after Catholic Emancipa-
ton had been carried into Convention, he
found time, while making speech on the
Property Qualification, to excuse and
apologize for the test of bigotry by saying
it was a dead letter and a blank, which
was simply stating that Catholics would
perjure themselves to get into office, by
swearing to support Constitution which
expressly shut them out from office.
3. That so far from all his "antcce-
dents" being right, his father Benjamin
Pierce voted to put the anti Catholic
clause into the Constitution and voted for
the Alien and Sedition Laws of Old John
Adams!
6. That so far from Catholic Emanci-
patton falling only for want of two-thirds
vote, it had not one-ffth of the votes cast
throughout the State at the same election
for Governor, and did not come near a
simple majority Of the small vote cast on
this question.
7. That in place of there being any
high confidence in New Hampshire OF
Catholic Emancipation being carried, the
general opinion is, that unless we draw a
line around N. Hampshire, saying that
while the plague-spot is on her and the
ship is unpurifed, No man, captain or
crew shall land, and thus, by the defeat
of Gen. Pierce, bring his bigoted party to
their senses, the Catholics in that State
stand no chance of being Emancipated
for half century.
8. And in word, in fine, that the
father. Benz. Pierce, was a red hot enemy
of the Catholics, and a supporter of the
Alien and Sedition acts, and that Frank
lin Pierce, the young chicken, learned to
crow SO glibly from the old one, that he
raised not voice in favor of abolishing
his fathers bigotry during the whole time
the subjects was under discussion in a
Convention of which he was a leading
member and President.
All these assertions Mr. Robinson went
on to prove in speech of some length
and much ability.