Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-01
From the Concord en-. H.) Tribune.
Gen. Pieree's Personal Habits Again.

The personal character of a candidate for the
higl Office of President of the United State must
always be "a matter of fair inquiry and OF great
interest to those who are to vote upon the
question of his election. We enquire in relation to
all agents, whether he isl SOBER moral and tenn
pcrGic man, whether he is a drunken, profigdte
aud nten. perufe man. and upon the result of this
inquiry, we decide whether we will employ him or
not. When merchant wishes master for his
vessel, his first inquiry Isl is he sober and tenn
pcrate man! No Railroad Company will employ
man, as superintendent or engineer, unless he is
known to be u sober and temperate man. No
gentleman will hire man to drive his private
carriage, without first ascertaining the habits for
"Sobriety of the person applying for such employ
ment. We would certainly be as careful IN selt ct
| ing man to preside over the mighty concerns of
| this great republic, we would be in selecting
man to navigate ships, to manage our steam
engines or to drive our private carnage NO sound,
sensible, patriotic man wishes to appoint drunken
man-a ma n of VIGOROUSLY bad drinking" ha bits
TO command the army and navy of the United
States, to make national treaties with all the
| rest of the world and to execute the laws OF Con-
gress. No moral, right minded, good citizen, VIII
ever vote for such for the Office of President.
of the United States, if he ascerains the character
CT the candidate to be such as we have ascribed
With full sense of our responsibility, then, we
have, in previous numbers OF this paper, printed ut
the home of franklin Pierce, stated to the public
| his drinking habits" We should have felt that
we were doing public wrong in knowing, as we
do, and for long lease of years have known the
| habits of Mr.. Pierce, had we concealed them from
| those who have right to know them. We have
stated, and do now again state, and we challenge
denial, that franklin Perce's drinking habits are
VIGOROUSLY BAD and ISrEMrERATE; that they have
been so for years; that he was drunken" as Re
preventative of his State in Congress, and that he
was accused, by Gov. Isaac Hill, as long as 1886,
of having 'disgraced this tate by his drunken sprees,
at Washng,on;" that when, afterwarda, elected
to the United States Senate his friends said that he
would respect the dignity of his high office and not
disgrace it BY continuation of his drunken prac-
tres" but that he MORE drunken, If possible,
as Senator, that he had been as Representatives.
| bad were his habits while Senator of the United
States, that he was prevailed upon, by personal
friends, to resign his office OF Senators before the
expiration of his Senatorial term. All accounts re-
presents that his drinking habits were very bad
while in Mexico. Both Democratic, as well as
Wing military officers, so represent
His drinking habits have grown no better since
| his return from Mexico. We do, therefore, now
again charge it upon Gen. Pierce that he is an
incorporate aud immoral man-and his friends dare
| not to DENY il! We have charged, and do again
| charge, that the man with whom Pierce now boards
has said that he has put Gen. Pierce to bed since he
boarded Nth hm-that his barber has declared that
Pierce had been into his shop SO DRUNK that he
DARED NOT SHAVE HIM. We, here. again say, that
Franklin Pierce's drinking habits" are BAD and
INrEMrERArE-they are known to be so in this
community, where he resides, and his political
friends have not and dare not DENY the fact. .
New England:-Doy you want drunken man. TO
rule over you? Do you want mon of drunken
habits to command your army and your navy, To
make your treaties with foreign nations and execute
the laws OF our country, man whom you would
not be willing to elect as town sergeant of coun-
try town! We need not to ask any honest tempe
rance man if he can VOTE for such man for Presi-
dent of the United States! For any professed
temperance man, to stick at the election of an in
temperate town officer and vote for Frank Pierce for
President OF the United States, would be indeed
strdining at a GNAr and Swallowing CAMEL.
We do not believe there is temperance man
anywhere who would SO disgrace his professions,
so violate his consistencyand so endanger the peace
and safety of his country, as he would do by voting
for Frank Pierce, if he but know the drunken
habits of this man as well as we do. We say,
then, to all the real friends of temperance, to the
Democratic temperance men especially-BEwARE
how you vote for this man! "A
We have Just seen an article in a small, men
dacious daily paper, published down IN ProVi-
dence, called the Providence Daily Post, which
lying print, of the 18th inst has the assurance to
call our paper vile sheet. 1t also says that our
charges of drunkenness against Gen. Pierce are
untrue and have been MET and REFurED by the"oest
men in the town where Gen. Pierce resides. ihis
of the Post declare to be utterly Jdfse
The New Hampshire Patriot, Pierces organ, and
the friends Of Gen. Pierce "where he resides" have
not refuted and dare not attempt to retute our
charges of intemperance against Gen. Fierce. They
maintain "prudent silence" upon the subject
The Post talks about assailing the "social
habits of Franklin Pierce. We have nothing to |