The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-07-07
From the Hartford Times; of March 10Th, Is42.
The Hon. Franklin Pierce.

This eloquent and youthful Senator, at the
early age of thirty has resigned all pub
lie employment and retired to private life We
cannot but indulge the hope that this retirement
will be brief and that the people of his native
State will at no distant day return him 10 post
that he SO eminently adorned. All parties speak
highly of the patriotic champion of the! Demo
cratic cause. who while he never yielded prn.
ciple, was always courteous to his opponents
As specimen of his style, we republish the
following extracts, which are the closing re-
marks of a powerful and eloquent speech ON the
subject Of removals from office, delivered by him
in July at the extra session, and ask for them
candid perusa'.
But that removals have occurred is not the
thing of which complain. complain of yemr
hypocrisy. l charge that your press and your
leading orators made promises to the nation ,shich
they It'd not intend to redeem, and which they
now vainly attempt to cover up by cobwebs.
The Senator from South Carolina near me
(Mr. Calhoun) remarked: yesterday, that he had
no language to express the infamy which, IN
his Judgment, must attach to that man who
had been before the people raising his voice in
the general shout that prescription was to be
prescribed, and was in the face of such action,
now here begging for place at the footstool OF
power. If my heart ever responded fully un-
Fortunately, before the keen scrutiny of our
countrymen, DISCUSSES are vain, man is unavai-
Ing. The practice the administration has
already fixed upon ITS prcfessions one of two
things-the stamp either Of truth or Of false.
hood the people will Judge which.
One word more and leave this subject-a
painful one to me, from, the beginning to the end
The Senator from North Carolina, in the course
of his remarks the other day, asked, "Do gen.
tlemen expect that their friends are to be retain
ed in Office against the will Of tn. nation. Are
they so unreasonable as to expect what the cir.
cumstances and the necessity Of the case for
bid - What our expectations were, is not the
question now but what were your pledges and
promises before the people. On previous oc-
casion, the distinguished Senator from Ken.
tucky, (Mr. Clay,) made a similar remark: "An
ungracious task, but the nation demands it,
Sir, this demand of the nation-this plea OF
estate necessity" let me tell gentlemen, is as
old as the history of wrong and oppression. 1t
has been the standing plea-the never failing
resort of despotism.
The great Julius found it convenient, when he
restored the dignity of the Roman Senate, but
destroyed its independence. 1t gave counten-
ance to, and justified all the atrocities of the In
QUESTION in Spain. 1t gave utterance to the sti
fled groans from the black hole of Calcutta Ii
was written in tears upon "lhe Bridge of Sighs'
in Venice +; and pointed TO those dark rcccsses,
upon whose gloomy ports there was never seen
returning footprint
1t was the plea of the austere and ambitious
Strafford in the days of Charles the First It
filed the Bastile of France, and lent its sane.
ton to the terrible atrocities perpetrated there
1t was this plea that snatched the mild, elouuent
and patriotic Camilla Desmous from his young.
and beautiful wife, and hurried HIM upon the
guillotne, with thousands of others equally un.
offending and innocent. 1t was upon this plea
that the greatest OF generals, il not Of men
you cannot mistake mel mean him, the pre-
sence Of whose very ashes within the last fe "
months, was sufficient to stir the hearts of a
| continent-it was upon this plea that he abiured
| that noble wife who threw around his humble
days light and gladness, and by her own lofty
energies and high intellect, encouraged his as
pirations. 1t was upon this plea that he com
mltted that worst and most fatal act or his
eventful life. Upon this too he drew around
his person the imperial purple. It has in ali
times, and in every age, been the foe of liberty
and the indispensable stay Of usurpation
Where were the chains of despoti,m evel
thrown around the freedom Of speech and of the
press, but on this pea of s'S1ate necess tn ~
Let the spirit Of Charles the Tenth of his min
listers answer.
1t is cold, selfish, heartless; and has always
been regardless Of age, sex, condition, services
or any OF the incidents of lite that appeal to
patriotism or humanity. ~
Wherever its authority has been acknowledg
ed, it has assalad men who stood by their coun
try when she needed strong arms and bold hearts
and has assailed them when, manned and disa
bed in her service, they could no longer brandisf
weapon in her defence.
1t has afflicted the feeble and dependent wife
for the imaginary faults of the husband.
1t has stricken down innocence in its beauty
youth in its freshness, manhood in its vigor, and
old age in its feebleness and decripitude. What
ever other plea or apology may be set up for the
sweeping, ruthless exercise of this civil guillo
tine at the present day-in the name of LIsEs.
rY. let us be spared this fearful one of "State
necessity in this early age of the Republic up
on the floor Of the American Senate, in the face
Of a people yet free.