Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-08-28
TRIBUTE TO FRANKLIN PIERCE.

Below we publish just and handsome tribute
to General Pierce, taken from the columns of the
New York Journal of Commerce The still small
voice of commentator from this respectable paper
is heard with delight amid the storm of caumny
and detraction which assails our noble leader:
&c All who have with an impartial eye observed the
conduct of the nominee of the Democratic party 70,
the Office of President, must have been struck with
his unobtruslve and modest course and not less with
the high and manly spirit evinced whenever called
upon to act speak. These traits of character
rare in public men, and especially among those who
bred to other pursuits, quit them in time of war for
services in the field. They associated with
the highest qualities of mind and heart, and win for
their Possessor the respect and esteem which Gen.
Pierces neighbors and friends generally and warm
ly feel towards him. We were lately his resi-
dence in the Granite Hills, and should personally
have paid respects to him, but that it might have
been misrepresented. We heard, however, not only
from his political friends, but also from his political
opponents, his neghbors and acquainances the most
friendly and respectful and often the most enthusiastic
testimony of his high and noble quai tiles.
Even in the time of Judge Woodbury. it is conced-
ed that Gen. Pierce had command of the State, but
that he used his power and influence for him
SELF ne preferred to live among his neigh5ors
as private Citizen enjoying the honors awarded to
him all hands as the head of the bar of New Hamp
SHIRE His resignation senator in Congress, an
officer of the army when service could longer be
rendered, and his refusal accept the office of At
toIney UeueEdl tHe SuoeTndtoridl CudH Vi MS
State, in harmony with the universal opinion
held towards him by his neighbors and friends.
Gen. Pierce however, by no act or procurement of
his, and from the spontaneous action of the Demo-
cratic Convention-such i; unquestionably was, for
present and witnessed-has become the
nominee Of the great party which it represented for
the presidential office, and instantly his whole career
is examined for some spot or blemish on which ca
iumny may expatiae until the elections have decided
the questions before the country. A career
which was opened under the teaching of ancestry
which had fought and bled in the country's service
in the great battles OF the revolution, an ancestry
famous for its high and patriotic tone and bearing
was beginning which could by no possibility ter.
inmate in the dishO"or which party maliggnity would
attach to the name of Gen. Pierce Throughout
the war in Mexico he acted with courage; and if he
erred at all, it the side of imprudence and
unnecessary exposure. The spontaneous tribute of
Gen. Scott, paid to Gen. Pierce when the nomination
of the former first announced at Washington by
assembled crowd, proves incontestaby that the
sentiment of the army towards Gen. Pierce, such
attends soldier who has courageously per-
formed his duty in battle. The name and fame of
those who have rendered patriotic service dear to
the American people, and should be protected from
unjust attack"