The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-10
The Hon. Edmund Burke, Of New Hamp-
shire.
NEWPORT, IN. H. Nov. 4, 1852.


MIR BENTETT:-
In tho WEEKLY HERALD of the Ilth ult which l
have just had an opportunity to see, find letter
from Boston, dated Oct. ., and signed Algoma,"
in which gross personal attack is made upon tho
Hon. Edmund Burke Of this town. The writer,
after referring to the opposition Of the national
democrats Of Massachusetts, to the proposed coali
tion between the free soil democrats and the free
soil wings Of that State, thus refers to m article
written and published BY Mr.. Burke in New
Hampshire paper, with the view Of preventing such
disgraceful alliance on the part of the loose prn
cipled portion Of the Massachusetts democracy =
Hence that article Written by Edmund Burke and
copied by our bunker papers denouDcipg the coalition,
aud which it hoped will have un.avorable effect
the fortunes Of General Pierce In New YORK and Ohio
lettering the baInbnrners there from v0Tg for him
Burke hates General Pierce for what believes be
good and sufficient personal reasons looks upon him
as having prevented his elevation the place Of United
States Senator Burkes ambition was to succeed John
r. Hale in the Senate and thinks that but for General
Pierces exertions HE ambition would have been
Senator was 10 have been chosen by the NGN lamp
shire Legislature at it's last session but the choice
postponed to await the decision OF the Presidential
LIST at the request OF General Fierce Should he be
elected President. General Pierce would wish
that FREUD IL Charles q Anterior Should he be de-
feated then would be Indifferent TO HIM who might
ceive the Senatorshp A. Burke knows how General
Pierce acted IN the affair and hts intense egotism tells
him that lie would have been chosen but Generals
interference, he has used hr best oxeJtionl make
Trouble for tie democratic party knowing that from
his position he make dmocrats abroad believe that
h SKIS officially he has In various ways ncucated
the IDEA that all coalilopsts New York
barnburTers, and Ohio democrats OF tue progressive
class would DO proecrbed under administration Of
which General Pierce thould be hs hi I'd. This he has
done uBoer the nectation If friendship though really
Ia the hope ana expect alton OK far alarming the
persons alluded 70 insure the election OF Gen
In reference to the statements of the writer touch
ing the personal and political relations of Mr. Burke
and Gen Pierce it is sufficient to say, that they are
in the gross and tho detail totally false IL is not
true that Mr. Burke is or has been, in any respect
personally or politically unfriendly to Gen Pierce
1t is not true that General Pierce hsS taken any
part against the election of Mr. Burke to the United
States Senate; nor is it true that General Pierce
WILL in that matter act against the wishes into
rests Of Mr. Burke. On the contrary, if Mr.. Athsr-
ton should be elected TO the United States Senate,
instead Of Mr. Burke it will be proof of the fact
that Gen. Pierce has opposed Mr. BuIke's election I;
but, on the contrary, til 1t Mr. Burke has consulted
the Interests OF Gen Pierce and his administra
Nor is Is true, In any respect, that Mr. Burke has
attempted to control Gen. Pierce, or will attempt
to control his administration, that he has in any
way attempted to accomplish his defeat All
there statements are base labrieations, proceeding
from rotten clique OF tree soil dis-union democrats,
who do aim at the control of Gen Pierce and his
adm nistraton, but who viii be rs much dsappoint-
ed in their designs as they will be despi ,ed by tho
American people when they become known by their
real names. as they will be in due time g Ago
ma" is one OF this rotten and corrupt clique.
A portion OF this clique in and about the
lale Baltimore Convention They opposed the nomi-
nation OF Gen Pierce to the last They tho
very lest TO come in to his support but when they
did give in their adhesion to the nomination, they
claimed to have made ii, and ut once proceeded to
Willy and SANDER every man whom they supposed
stood in the way of their cunningly Devised plan TO
get possc sion OF Gen Pierce by COUP de main in
he W an
whom these corrupt haIpies seized No sooner was
Gen. Pierces nomination announced than the story
was circulated that Mr. B. was opposed to his nomi
nation. 1t was ofCourae, without particle of toun
dation. On the contrary, it was the very reverse
Of The fact for no man in that convention exerted
himself more earnestly and faithfully to secure the
nomin alton OF Gen Pierce than Mr. as and will
be shown by abundant testimony, when ssary
Mr.. BIS extensive acquaintance with tho demo.
cratic politicians Of the Union enabled him to do
more for General Pierce than legion of such
miserable hbeers as the author OF the letter frozi
Boston, to which this is reply, or the rotten aad
unprincipled clique to which be belongs. General
Pierce ano Mr. Burke had always been personal and
pol,ticsl friends, and there was reason why ths
latter should oppose the nomination of the former
Inow come to the real cause Of this bitter assault
/ upon MIR Burke. 1t il well known that Mr.. is
and has ever been, sound and true national demo
| crat From the moment he came upon tho stage OF
public sction be has never cOpntenanced the danger
GUS beresy Of abolitionsm From the first start, he
hss denounced it, and done all in his wer to put
it down He has also opposed all the horesies and
factions nearly or remotely connected with IT,
| the free soil finaticism which grew out of
| it And when the democracy of his own
State temporarily gave way to the Will
mot delusion, he, among very few Of the lead.
ing democrats Of his State stood firm, and breasted
the storm. The county in which Mr. b resides, oil
oil the counties in the State, stood firm and unshsken
under the delusion. The democra 10 press in tina,
county, of all the democratic presses in New am D.
hira tho ly licb hulth md
ntrepdity to denoupce the Wilmot proviso, and the
free soil movement which grew out Of it These
facts in Mr.. Buike's history, of course, make him
ocious TO the corrupt and shameless demagogue
who still attempt to prolopg their political lives by
meretricious and ainlserous connection with tht
free soil faction in Massachusetts, and elsewhere.
But the especial occasion of tho outpourng o.
wrath and gall upon Mr. by the writer OF the
Boston letter of the 9Th ut WAS the ar. Gle writer
and published by him, denouncing the coalition in
that State, and endeayoring to relieve Gen. Pierce
from the mputation Of any connection with it, which
the leaders in that coalition attempting to faster
upon him. for the purpose of giving success to thei
black and corrupt scheme, and which, IL they had
Sucseeded, would have been fatal to bis election
Mr.. Burke, true to the history Of his whole public
life. denounced the shameless design, and assumed
what he then and Low believes to be true that Gen
Pierce had no connection whatever with the Goa
litionists Of Massachusetts,, and gave no counte
nance to their schemes. IL was q blow which m ad
them reel and stagger, and hence their spite agans
Mr. B.
But there is still another why the coalition
lists of Massachusetts, feel q mortal grudge agans
Mr. Burke, and that is, the part he took in exclud
| ng Mr.. Rantoul from the Baltimore Convention
Mr.. was chairman Of the committee on creden
tisls, appointed by that body and in that capacity
was mainly instrumental in procuring the rejection
Of Mr. Rsntcul and the award Of the seat claimec
by him TO N: ]. Lord; Esq sound national demo
crat, who alone, Of all his colleagues, voted fol
General Pierce from the moment ne vas brought
forward by the Virgins delegation to his fina
nomination, Mr.. Burke had TO hostility, personal
! ly, to Mr. Rantoul, but he believed tins 1t Mr. IL
were admitted to the convention with all his free
soil heresies unrecsnted, it would nsutraize the
sslutary Influences which might grow out of the
| platform which the convention might adopt. Aud
in this is 10 be found another cause of the hostility
which the coalition democrats Of Massachusetts, feel
towards Mr.. They hate man Of integrity aui
principle. He is living rebuke to them an un.
welcome contrast to their own political roite ane
and prcfigscy And hence they hate Mr.. Burke
In conclusion. have to add that the leaders o!
the coalition in Massachusetts, will gain nothing by
sucb rude and COARSE assaults uuOn Mr. Rurka ia