Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-08-04
Another sIauder.


No sooner had Frank Pierce received
the nomination of the Democratic conyen-
ton for President. than the conductors Of
the Wing press commenced taxing their
brains to place him in an unfayorable po-
sition before the public; and the re-
suit has proved that the soils as prodac-
tive of the raw material of which g Roor-
backs are made. as ever.
The first Of the batch, was the charge
that he favored the proscriptive clause in
the New Hampshire Constitution. prchi-
biting Catholics from holding Office. The
next. was that he Was an habitual drunk
ard, and that it was his being drunk that
caused has horse to stumble and fall atthe bat
tie of Chepultepec. All these fabrications
having been scattered like mist before the
sum, by the omnipotence of truth, another
false charge has been made against him,
as puerile as either of the others, and we
hear the whole pack yelp, We have got
you now !'' - l'es t5
This charge is nothing else than that
Gen. Pierce is an :" a6oltionist and Loaths
the Fugitive Slave La,O '' ~ Heaven save
the mark ply And what is still more
wonderful, this charge originated in an
abolition paper. now supporting General
Scott for the Presidency This charge
is so utterly at variance with the univer-
sally expressed opinions of Mr.. Pierce,
that we intended saying nothing about it,
nor should we, if we had not heard it re-
peated as true by those who should know
better.
1t is said that Gen. Pierce in speech
made last winter at New Boston, declared
himself opposed to the Fugitive Slave
Law. and made other declarations of a
similar character; but the circumstances
under which this speech was made is sufi-
cient evidence of its being false. They
are these
A man named Atwood was nominated
by the Democratic party of New Hamp-
shire, for Governor. Afterwards it was
found that he had coalesced with the free
sellers, and it was determined by the De-
mocratic party. with Frank Pierce at its
head, to repudiate him and nominate ano-
Their man, who was sound upon all ques-
tons at issue. 1t was in speech in ia
vor of this action, that Gen. Pierce is said
to have uttered the language attributed
to him. Now if he sympathised with the
abolitionists, why did he wish to crush
Atwood for holding the same sentiments ?
The fact that Pierce opposed Atwood
because he was an abolitionist, is sufficient
proof, of itself, that he had no sympathies
for the man or his sentiments. Indeed,
Gen. Pierce has, from the first, always
avowed himself firm friend of all the
Compromise measures. A Mr.. Aver,
one of the delegates to the Baltimore
Convention, in recent speech at q ratif-
cation meeting, said that the last person
he met with on leaving New Hampshire,
for the Baltimore Convention was Frank
lin Pierce, who told him "Go to the
convention, and see to it that the compro-
mise measures, THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
AND ALL, ARE FAITHFULLY CARRIED oUT."
This, it will be recollected, was when
Pierce had no expectation of being nomi-
mated by that convention.
But we have other than presumptive
evidence that Gen. Pierce did not utter
the sentiments charged upon him, in the
following, signed by upwards of 100 gen.
tlemen who heard his speech on the occa-
sion alluded to:
"The undersigned having had their at
tention called to communication publ
shed in the Manchester Democrat of the
9th of January last, and republished in
the Washington Republic of the 18th inst,
purporting to give an account Of General
Pierce's speech at New Boston last win
ter, deem it due to truth to make the fol-
lowing statement
eve were all of us present on the oc-
casion referred to, and are therefore able
to speak positively in regard to the truth
fulness of that report. We do not hesitate
to pronounce it without any qualification,
tissue of falsehoods from beginning to
end. In whole and in part, in substance
and detail, it is entirely and grossly false,
and was SO denounced by those of us who
saw it at the time of its original publica.
ton. No one expression there imputed
to Gen. Pierce is correct, and most of
them are entire fabrications, without the
slightest shadow of truth.
"Gen Pierce's speech upon this occA.
sion was an able, bold, and eloquent vim
dication of the course pursued by the de-
mocratic party of the State, in resembling
the nomination of John Atwood, their for
mer candidate for governor, on account of