Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-07-31
HigaIy Important Corrtxnn.a.

MANCHESTER, july is. ,ss.
Dear Sir have just noticed in late n
of the R public, two communications, takss 0s
the Manchester Democrat, published her. "'s
the Independent Democrat, published at Goa. aat
purpoTnpg to give report of speech naS0Oa
General Pierce, last December, at New RED
Nothing could be more false and calumn;o.DOsoa
the account there given of General P;s,ss,Aa
marks. was present at the meeting. Win
al others from this city, and refnefbSe, 'e's'
tinctly the drift and substance of his speech oA
was the first popular meeting of the las, nolt@
campaign, and was held at the home Of IPI"sa
wood, then the abolition candidate for Gor".At
General Pierce's speech was mainly deyotsSaa
justification Of the course pursued by himself va
the democratic party the year before, in resS.sN
Mr.. Atwood's nomination for Governor. in
auence of his opposition to the Comsretni,s ma
ures In tie course of his speech Gea. Pee
luded to the Fugitive Slave Law, and mad.
strong argument in support of it. 1t is sbna.
untrue that he pronounced it contrary to "no,.
right )" but, on the contrary, in reply to a on'.
ton proposed by an abolitonist present he en-
the present law was the same in principle and srh I
stance as that which received the approval =
Washington and many others of the wises, ,oS
purest among the founders of this Republic Y.
thought that these men were to be considered !,
/ al
the present day, who were, for political effect con.
stautly storming about slavery, without being an,
to suggest any practical plan for Its abolition
The speech was, throughout thoroughly n,
tional speech, and produced powerful effect IA
full report of it was published, though brief ah
stract of it appeared shortly after in the Cnn
| Democrat, of this city.
| | remember seeing the reports copied BY i
Republic when they first appeared and eonrsn
ing in regard to them with several persons VII,
heard Gen. Pierce's speech. All agreed in po.
nouncing them gross perversion, and almost ca.
tire fabrication, from beginning to end Bothf..
ports were evidently written by the same indyii.
ual, which accounts for their close similarity
| Both of the papers from which these cOmnun:
cations are taken, are, as you well know, vioea.
abolition Journals and have been unspsrng il
their hes il ty to Gen Pierce, and indeed, ali th,
prominent members of the democratic party in b.
State. One of them was started by the abolition
| ists some years sine, as the organ of John P
| P. Hale and his associates and the other ne
pudiated by the democratic party and turned over
the abolItionists, on account OF its opposition to
| the Compromise. When it is known how brtr
and how frequent have been the attacks mace By
these two journals upon Gen. Pierce, on count
of his open national course on the slavery question,
every one will see it seems TO me, how little conf.
dence can be placed in any such reports as the Re-
public has seen fit to extract from their Columns
1t is well known TO you that on account Of hs
course upon this question, he has, for a long line
| been constant mark for their deiur citation ahd
abuse. ! send YOU few extracts, to show de
spirit they hare both manifested towards him.
Fhe first is from the Independent Democrat II
February 60, 1851:
1t is obvious to every intelligent man that hr
! Ik e.
slave act--the decree of outlawry against M 1t
wood has gone forth. For this he has been de.
nounced, harrassed, and brought to the block
For nothing else has Franklin Pierce pursued lin
with the cruel heartlessness of faInished tiger,
and the cunning malice of a demon.
The next extracs is from the same Paper, Of
June 24ih, 1852:
GEN. PIERCE ON rHE RIGHT OF PkuroN-The
last National Era contains carefully collated his
tory of General Pierce's Congressional career,
showing that through the whole nine years he
ed id the House and Senate, the right of petition
a right older than Magma charter-had no bitterer
ormore unrelenting opponent than the present hun
ker democratic candidate for President of tie UDr
ted States. This is not news to us--it is not news
to the people of New Hampshire, in whose mtnno-
ries the history of their degradation, at tie hands
of such men as Atherton, Pierce and Burke, 10
still fresh. They have not forgotten that thOss
men earned for the State they MisrepreSented hs
insulting and reasonable apptliatve of 'the South
Carolina of the North" than which it were On
and shame. In this catalogue
stands Gen. Pierce. In all she nine years be
spent in Congress- not a thought, word, or act can
be found which savers of the slightest regard for CIV
ii. religious. personal liberty On all questions
and on all occasions, his course was one OF enuFs
and unqualified subserviency to the South and 10
slavery. Such it has been since ; nor we sup
pose, do he or his friends wish to deny this. os
the ground. mainly, of hissdevoton to the Creates
wrong that curses the earth, was he FIRST broagn'
forward by the Virginia delegation, and after
wards endorsed by the whole Southern denocra'
cy, as proper standard-bearer of their prlAef
PIES On this ground he and his friends expect .
see him elected, if elected he shall be, which
very doubtful"
The Manchester Democrat of June 18th 1852
In an article entitled "the Hunker Democracy snO
their Candidate" says The convention in ia
numerous ballottings, exhibited the same determ
nation of the South, to allow of the nomination Q
no man, unless notorious doughface of the mos
devoted and unquestionable stripe, and an advo'
cate OF their most ultra pretensions.
THUS the South chung to Buchanan, until, hnd
ing his nomination impossible, and wearied by uB
successful efforts, they led the way, in body, 10
Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire, whom thel
well knew to be profoundly loyal to Southern 10
terests-from whom no word or vote in behalf
human rights had ever been recorded who %.
avowed his entire devotion to the Compromise, Oa
who, IN the absence of any avowal, could be Del
ter trusted BY the slaveholding interests than ma
Jorty of the candidates for whom it had voted
The above extracts accurately reflect the sent,