The daily union., 1852-08-13

youehed and SO circulated, designed by the whig
managers TO move the public mind and 10 move il by
fraud.
II ID had not this purpose, had purpose Let those
who think that Mr.. Truman Smiths whg committee
spend their money without parpose-and none others
adopt the conclusion that this thing meant TO begin
and 10 end as Joke
The document is sent TO the people bearing every
voucher Of authenticity which official document can
bear II is indeed full OF false assertions but
very many OF the whig documents. which all admit TO be
sent out in earnest and upon which congressional sigma
lures appear.
So far from this card being meant as joke its crcula-
ton from Washington begun by the whig managers
time when whatever force il had joke had been
spent II first appeared. two three weeks ago, in the
New York Tribune With the public mind thus pre-
pared for the impression nigh upon the unwary
repubshed at considerable expense. from Wash
ng!on. and sent out under The frank o al least Of rs
gners. under circumstances which make. upon all who
are not in the secrets of the whg committee the most
formal and imperative claim to credence in ii au-
theniic document
And bear in mind, moreover, that we must judge the
purpose Of this card by what have of the whole
fraudulent conduct Of this by the wings They
have sent out portions Of the Foss report OF General
Pierces speech. with introduction vouched by con-
gressionsl signatures Is that joke, gross decep-
ton 7 Ii falsehood makes joke, il is joke. II false
hood does mol constitute joke, then this card has
other claim TO that character. E
We ask the people to mark the men whose names
figure in this transaction. We demand TO know OF the
sgners OF this card-one and allon what principle OF
public honor honesty their stand signed 70
public declaration that they are democrats" and yel
cannot vote for franklin Pierce We demand OF them
justification for thus Stimulating before the people par
tsan character which not theirs, in order to nue the
democratic nominees by protesting that. though demo
cras they must repudiate the democratic ticket Sup
pose that any of these sgners had gone into part
Of the country where his is not knownand such
parts of the country there are-and used the identical
language of this card the stump would any OF
them who had done dare afterwards TO hold up his
head honest man! II not, then by what jusca-
ton do they permit their signatures 10 say for them
everywhere what they would admit be foul fasehood
and dishonor if said by them in person wherever they
were not knowni
y And, finally, we invoke again The attention of the
country to the desperation OF fraud by which the Sew
ardte higher law" element of the whig party, conscious
that the people have condemned it. is fighting fol
power We warn the people against further, and if pos
sibe, still more atrocous and unexamped frauds thar
those which we have now exposed. We have good
reason 10 believe-we may say. to know-that such
frauds being contemplated, if not actually
cocted One thing only is needed 10 the people
from being virtually cheated by such devices of he
right OF suffrage. Let them remember that the Sewadite
party and policy rule only upon the ruins of the
stution, and land torn and vexed by the demon oil
sectional stife With this fact in mind, the people o
the country will know beforehand that 10 such party
the chief instruments of must, by the
sty of their case, be iasehood and fraud