Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-07-28


nouncing them gross perversion and almost entire
fabrication from beginning to end. Both reports
were evidently written by the same individual,
which accounts for their close similarity
Both of the papers from which these commu-
nications are taken, are, as you well know, Vlole'
abolition Journals, and have been unsparlng In
their hostility to General Pierce, and indeed all the
prominent members of the democratic party in the
State One of them was started by the abolition
lists some years since as the organ Of John T. Hale
and his associates and the other was repudlated Oy
the democratic party and turned over to the ADOLF
tionsts on account of its opposition to the Comto
mise When it is known how bitter and now. ire
ouent have been the attacks of those two Journals
upon General Pierce on account of his open nation,
al course on the slavery question, every one will
see. it seems to me, how little confidence can be
placad in any such reports as the "Repubhc" has
seen u to extract from their columns IL Is well
known to YOU that, on account of his course upon
this question: he has for long time been con,
slant mark for their denunciation and abuse seno
you a few extracts to show the spirit they nave
| both manifested towards him. The first IS from
the Independent Democrat of February 20, 195 :
as is obvious to every intelligent man that for
one offence-oppositon to slavery and the tug1uve-
slave act-the decree of outlawry against MI. Al
wood has gone forth. For this he has been de-
nounced harrassed, and brought to the block. For
nothing else has Franklin Pierce pursued him with
the cruel heartlessness of furnished tiger, and
the cunning malice of a demon"
The next extract is from the same paper, OF june
PA, 1852:
| GENERAL PIERCE ON THE RIGHT OF PETITION
The last National Era contains a carefully collated
history of General Pierces congressional career,
showing that through the whole nine years ne
served in the House and Senate, the right OF Petl-
tion-a right older than Magma Charta-had no
bitterer OF more unrelenting opponent than the
| President
of the United States This is not to us. 1t is
not news to the people of New Hampshire, in whose
memories the history of their degradation at the
| hands of such men as Anterior, Pierce, and burke
is still fresh They have not forgotten that those
men earned for the State they misrepresented the
insulting and reasonable appellative OF the South
Carolina of the North, than which it were difficult
to find name more significant of disgrace and
shame In this catalogue stands
General Pierce. In all the nine years he spent in
Congress not thought, word, or act can be found
which savors of the slightest regard for civil reli-
! gious, or personal liberty. On all questions and
all occasions his course was of entire and un-
qualified subservency of the South and to slavery
Such it has been since; nor, we suppose, do he OF
his friends wish to deny this. On this ground
mainly of his devotion to the greatest wrong that
curses the earth, was he first brought forward by
the Virginia delegation, and afterwards endorsed
by the whole southern democracy, as aproper STAN
dard-bearsr of their principles. On this ground he
and his friends expect to see him elected if elected
he shall be- which is very doubtful"
The Manchester Democrat of June II, 1852, in
an article entitled "The Hunker Democracy and
their Candidates" says:
"Tho convention in its numerous ballotings ex
hibited the same determination of the South to al
low of the nomination of no man unless notorious
doughface of the most devoted and unquestionable
stripe, and an advocate of their most ultra preten
sions. x Thus the South chung to Buchanan
until finding his nomination impossible, and wear
ed by unsuccessful efforts, they led the way in 6
body for Franklin Pierce Of New Hampshire, whom
they we'll knew to be profoundly loyal to southern
interests, from whom no word or vote in behalf
of human rights has ever been recorded, who haC
avowed his entire devotion to the Compromise, bu
who, in the absence of any avowal, could be better
trusted by the slaveholdng interest than a MAORI
ty of the candidates for whom it had voted"
The above extracts accurately reflect the senti
ments entertained by the abotionists or freesoiler
of this State towards General Pierce, and furnish
complete refutation of all the absurd charges o
abolitionism which the "Republic," or any of it
abolition allies can manufacture or bring agains
him.
am, very respectfully, yonr obedent servant,
B. F. AVER.
Hon. II. HIBBARD.