Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-10-09
PLAQUEMINE:
Saturday, October o, 1854.


Saturday, October o, 1851.
UAs our contempory of the Gazette in de-
fance of all the incontrovertible proofs adduc-
ed, continues almost weekly to call the New
Boston speech humbug. and so forth, we in
sert the following as further and additional
proof of the correctness of the report of that
speech and here we leave the subject, fully
convinced that the intelligent masses OF this
section have already come to conclusion res
pec;ing it similar to what we have hitherto ex-
pressed:
From the Manchester IN. H. Americana
The Clincher-1ndubitable Proof Of
the New Boston Speech.
The evidence accumula1es. The more the
public ponder and examine, the stronger is the
conviction that General Pierce made the New
Boston speech as reported by Mr.. Foss Every
effort hitherto made by the Pierce men has
been aimed at the veracity of Mr.. Foss and his
character. AT the North and his own vicinage
he has been lampooned as a worthless falsiher,
and at the South as horse thief and con
Wet All this has been done in the hope that
if the character of the reporter should be de.
stroyed, the authenticity Of the report would
fall with it. 1t is Dow cur purpose to show,
not in any vague manner, who and what the
reporter of that speech is and has been. We
shall make no halfway work of it. Before we
close, the matter shall be as plain as the noon
day sun "to the lowest and darkest and meaaest
understanding .-.
| A word of introduction. 1t is our belief that
Frank Pierce has carried two faces on this SUBJ
ject of slavery, as if is evident he has on some
others. He has been the foremost the head
and front of a party who have constantly hur.
ed at the Wings the charge Of ''abolltonism"
No matter what ground they take, no matter
for whom they voted, no matter on what plat
form they have stood, Increasingly, from the
loudest believer down to the faintest echo of
the Locofoeo party in New Hampshire, the
Wings have been tainted with "abo itionsm."
And now, while they are in the fraternal en-
brace of John Van Buren-while Gen. Pierce
makes public display of his intimacy with Mas
sachusetts oalitionists-while every indication
shows an attempt to cajole Freesoers to his
support-at such time, the Wings of New
Hampshire are met with the declaration that
Scott is an "abolitonist" General Pierce pre-.
tended to support the Compromise, aud a part
of the Wings did support it with sincerity and
| consistency. But the echoes of his Compro-
mise speeches had hardly died away, when he
was found at New Boston attempting to catch
the "abolitionist" Atwood men. More than
one Freesoiler can testify that he has told him
that between them there was no difference Of
opinion on the slavery question, but that he
"diin't want to break up the Democratic party"
We have now the means of showing conclu-
siveIy that he has uttered sentiments which he
and his organs had denounced, and which he
has since denied. @rza-r
| The report of the New Boston speech was
made at the time of the delivery, and where its
sentiments bore directly against the party with
which the reporter was acting consequently,
it is probable, that any Misrepresentation would
have been in another direction. 1t stands re.
corded areport, and as the reporter was there
for the express purpose of securing a report, it
is not probable that an error occurred from
negligence. It follows that if the speech is
wrongly reported, it was an "intentional mis-
representation" The whole question turns
then on the character of Mr.. Foss and others.
This is one reason for entering into the vindi-
cation we are about to make. There is anoth-
| ct 10 WHsCf we dHuucu last WcChs AAc mas a.
the South been openly and explicitly charged
| with theft, and General Sam Houston has re.
peated the charge from the stump, stating that
Mr.. Foss had Leen confined in the New Hamp.
shire penitentiary for. stealing horse. Who
then, is Rev. A. T. Foss, the reporter of Frank
Pierce's New Boston speech!
Here follows a history of Mr. Foss for the
last twenty years, taken principally from the
records of the Baptist Church, from which il
appears that during that time he was stationed
to preach at various places throughout New
Hampshire, eight years Of the time being at
New Boston; and that he always stood among
the most elevated Of his church as regards in
telligence and piety; and nothing but the pur'
| est moral character was ever attrbrted to him
by any one previous to the day when he bad
the misfortune to report Gen. PIERcE's speech
at New Boston. This record of DIR. Foss',
high character as a man and q Christian, occu
pies too much space for our columns, and We
have therefore filed it away, for the examna-
ton Of any who still have doubts of the accu-
racy of the report in question or the fair char
acter Of the reporter The American goes OF
to say, in its truthful, earnest and forcble style