The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-10-21
r,,r NFW HAMPSHIRE TEST.

tarts 10 have lhai provision eXp1nged irati
Tho Constitution. A statement appear
IN the Manchester IN II J Messenger q
Sept both signed By one hundred ana
freatg, one Democrats, mostly lrishmen, II
which they say that they have "aboot AZ
much regard for General Pierce aud 'he
politics he advocates, as they have Tor tae
old blue laws of Connecticut
Bat thcy continue I'VE are wiling y
pye to Mr.. Pierce whatever credit no Is
entitled to for tho part he took IN Try iag to
have the test removed. The Daily Patrl
/ Il al Concord gave foil report OF tho pro-
Ieeedings sitter the Convention, ana upon
| il We chiefly depend for Information; aud
where ia the report i the proof 10 he
found tina, he made anything like 4 pow
erlal eiiart' u have the odiuus test cxpnng
| ed ffomlba Constitution, we are unable g
say, in fact we can see nothing Whatever
that Mr.. Pierce did, while the test was un
der consideration, 10 have il removed
| After Judge Woodbury. bad spoken up
on the subject, the property qualification
cama up, and then Gen. Pierce spoke, aud
LIN his remarks mentioned the Religious
| Fest ~ a blot or Stigma upon that State,
land that ii had. for a long time, been .
Ilead letter, and other things which ara re.
| aiy lapghablo Early in the Convention,
Jndge Woodbury. had made known his in.
Iten,ion to Offer an amendment, at proper
! time. by striking out the word .prot
| from the Sixth Article Of the Bill OF Rights
When the time arrived, Mr.. Pierce re.
minded him of il, and this is The SUN und
substance Of what he did in the Cenven.
lion 10 have the odIons test removed, aud
how far this may DO considered power
fu effort We leave Others TO judge. Man,
OF us were under The impression that hs
had done more, and we examined the re
port FIR ourselves.
The above i bu, portion Of a repl, =
J letter addressed 10 John White, Esq. 81
Milwaukee, dated Concord, \. IL. Angus
10, 1852, and upon which letter Cen,
Shields founded lheremarks he made, Here
- an extract from another reply, dated Do
yer. n II, Sept ~, 1852, and signed hs
serenity farce Democrats, princip ally Irish
Icitizans:
1.-The representation in the letter above
referred to. thHt Gen. Ffaahlin Pierce
aide powerful cd'ats IN tie Coayeu
fian ~ cxpaa9s the religious test from tht
tConslHpeae II ses II mpsbne, il On
Iti.flg uaGolnHied 10 truth. a. be records !
Ethat Convention @iIl show We d NJ
question the honesty # Those gentle et
whose names are appended - thNi teuer
Is ihef 30 at .Pea', frun persani knowt
edge of h:s acts IN that Convention =
The records 81 the Convention, however
will Show the part 'hat Gen Ffauklif
Pierce has aiken on this important sub.
ljact, and VIC cmptatica'iy dcay ,hst BE-
5aek the lo4st interest IN the removal ol
this fool blot from orr St#'e Constitution
aud we challenge the proof To the conIra
irg. Gen Frsnltiia Pierce has been ths
oracle IF the democratic party IL Ne
Hampshire, a0d hrd b. held up tie odi0H
religious test before them, and adyucatet
the removal Of this great injlstice 10 q
respectable portion Of our citizens, ih,
work would have been accomplished. b.
30, he hasneyer done i land upon him mus
and does rest the responsibility, ia,
whole facts IN the case are cieaiy and tru
" SET forth BY VIM T.. r abin-on Ed, o
New York, from he records II, the canstitu
t1n. and we refer every IriShmau ant
Catholic 10 his speech ou this subject. "a
j a decided and truthful accom-, of tn,
whole matter"
: Still another reply to the above letter
comes e Is from Concord, a. II, the hom,
. 81 Gen. Pierce, signed by nc hundred an
one names, chiefly Irish citizens. frou
which We make lie following extract:
awe have vet to 10 RI ih1t Gen. Pierce
VIE seems SO selections 10 obtain the vote
# people Of our taith for the high office h
seeks, has ever uttered word Ia our IA
vor, save just at the close OF Cancort
Town Meeting, in 1852, when tho qnes
lion had already lcen decided against IL
! in the State and also in Concord Itself
E And yet another reply appears in til
Nashau paper signed BY forty serea CHI
, zens which, as it is brief, we give in full
h We, the undersigned Catholics and citi
zens of Nashua and Nashville, haviu.
seen statement Of some thrty-siy of on
coun'rymen, in which il is s,a,ed lha, N,
democratic party in this State his uni
4 fprmlS been opposed to what il called III,
! religious ''iost," and that the democratic
nominee has exeriea himself ta erase tina
adious feature from the Constitution; ",
{ feel il our duty TO say tba, the sta,cmeu
wo believe is calculated 10 misiead the
public, and particularly our connirymen
lnasmnch as the democratic party alone il
responsible for its retention in the Cons,i
J tuition; and that Gen. Pierce has never, t,
our knowledge, done anything upon thu
question 10 recommend him to The Csihu
tic voters this State; while on the other
hand. the wings Of these two towns bavt
uniformly been ia favor Of striking il OF,
and voted by large maj9rities 10 favor d
It's abolition.
70 wind up the whole alf'ir and tl
lsb9W the daspergte efforts tn,ao he Tho ! ..