Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1852-10-13

cunning perhaps than the father only because
less mature3 Ia years aud political manage
ment He told you plainly what was their
design, what they looked to in the future. aud
what has since been too fatally realized, ~
far as the pledge Of the Democracy Of the
United States. 10 Convention, could realize
the purposes he then proclaimed lie said :
Il am the unmitigsted enemy Of slavery.
and would have it abolished without delay
/ say, therefore, that let what will come. |
| shall, under no necessity whatever, support
any man who does not believe slavery to be
an unmixed curse, and who will not, by vir-
tue o. his office, use all constitutional power
to abolish it. No more slave States no more
slave Territory, the withdrawal Of the support
Of the Federal Government from slavery, aud
the abolition Of it wherever il can be reached
by constitutional means AL our danger lies
10 compromise Then see to it that those
pho represent you arc faithful to the cause
| Of freedom. See to it that they make no
compromise Nth siarcry.'
Again he says, ~ will state fairly, Free
" and fully what VIC expect. We expect to
make the Democratic party Of this State
(New York) the great anti-slav.ry party Of
this State, and through Il, to make the Dem
ocratic party Of the United States the great
anti slavery party Of the United States
Those who do not contemplate this result
will do well to get out Of the way, for there
is no doubt that when our principles get fair
I " before the people. SO that they cat hear
them and know what they arc---and zoe hare
made arrangements for that ricp, that the
irholc people ,riH go aeiM us and orr
Southern friends, barring had things all
their oacn acay for the last swentytre or
thirty gears. must make up their minds to
let us hare our oacn way for chile"
These are the objects, plans, aud designs
of tho Frcesoil party, boldly and fearlessly
proclaimed by one Of the principal leaders Of
that faction -and most rapid progress have
they made truly, in making the Democratic
party Of New York the great anti slavery
party Of New York. and through IL. and its
influence, the Democratic party Of the United
States the great aati slavery party of the
| United States, when, already, they have
been forced, in National Convention of
Northern and Southern Democrats, to affirm
what alone the anti slavery men have con.
tended for, to wit: THAT all men are created
equal that they arc endowed by their crea.
tor with certain iHahcnabis rights, among
which are life. liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness;" and at Hillsborough and Fanuiel
Halls, but few days since. he maintained
his consistency in supporting Mr.. Pierce
Do you take him for fool, or do you sup
pose be knows his man? And the question
may be asked emphatically. now, are the
Southern States,--is Virginia-prcrare to
ratify this endorsement Of the construction Of
| the principles Of the Declaration Of Indepcn-
dcncc. by their support of the candidate thus
presented to them? If so, let us bear no
more hereafter against the Aboitionists Of
the North. Your support Of Pierce, under
tsuch circumstances. will amount to q declar.
alton that the negro is created the equal Of
| the icaite man, and that be is endowed Dy
bis creator with the iaalieaable rights Of
liberty ! do not mean to say that the
Southern men who voted for this Platform
will act upon this principle, for know they
will not but they have made fatal error,
fatal concession to the anti slavery men OF
the North which becomes Southern men ey-
cry where, now, at this time, TO repudate and
condemn.
You have been made acquainted With Mr.
Pierccs views on slavery, or rather free soil.
ism, through other channels than the Van
Burcns You have read his New Boston
speech, which has been proved upon him by
the afdauits Of twenty-one persons who
heard it. You have seen it admitted by The
New York Herald, one Of the most jealous
of all the press in bis support. After hav.
ing once ridiculcd the possibility Of his hav.
ing made il, that paper now says:
"Such being our opinions of the merits O
witnesses, and taking into consideration, also
the strong temptations Of Gen. Pierce on The
occasion in question, to conciliate the Demo.
cratic Frcesoilers, zoe must conclude (unless
MIR. Foss and others are unprincipled knayes)
that the case, like the native American letteI
Of Gen. Scott, is proved against the Demo.
cratic nominee"
at was for the local clections-it was al
for Buneombe. and that paper recommend
to the Democratic party ito say nothing more
about it. but let it go for what it is worth
all attempts at denial only rccoiling ,oiti
additional force" You have seen the vote
of Gen. Pierce in relation to the admission Of
Brooke's two slaves into the District of Col
umbia You have seen his vote in the Sen
ate of the United States, on the 3D. o. Janu.
airy, 1889. upon motion to lay on the table
a memorial praying for the abolition of sla
very in the District Of Columbia and in the
Territory Of Florida. and for aboiishing the
slaue trade betireea the States, which was
made test vote, and on which every South
ern man, with few Northern men, voted il
the affirmative, and Mr. Pierce with Ii 9th
ers all from the North, voted in the negative.
You have seen from bis speeches not denic1
but as published in the Congressional Globe
and the Union, he has said, ''he had no hes.
itation in saying, that be considered slavery
a social and political evil apd most cheerful
i ly wished it had no exiatcnce upon the face
Of the earth" and that the man who would
dissolve the Union did not deplore slavery
more than he did" You have seen that the
New Hampshire Convention of which he was
a member in 1850, unanimously adopted d
resolution declaring "Thas the holding of hu-
man beings in bondage Is a curse to any
country. and that we are opposed to slavery
in all its forms and under whatever circum-