The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1852-10-08
More Certifcates-A wing Forgery.

More Certificates Wing Forgery.
The whig papers after more than months
delay, have hatched up certificate much in
the style Of whig newspaper article, going
| TO show that General Pierce is a abigot.-
This suspicious document, purports to be
signed by large number of irishmen, and
lcontradicts the statements Of the Pastor and
Catholics of Concord, as TO General PlERcE's
earnest advocacy of the abolition of the
New Hampshire Test. We have no doubt
This is mere sham ceretifcate--a whig for
| gerry. No such number of .Irishmen, who
know General PIERCE, could make such
statements as this tumped up document sets
forth. The charge of bigotry against General
PIERCE has been often exploded by Catholic
editors and clergymen. who speak Of his con-
duct from personal knowledge. Scarcely a
Catholic paper in the country has withheld its
highest praise of General PIERCE, aftera full
investigation Of the facts, for his liberal and
truly democratic devotion 10 the cause Of
religious ioeration. Read the Boston Pilot,
the Amcriean Cslt, the Catholic Telegraph,
Iof Cincinnati. and all the leading journals Of
the faith. They have not spoken as parti-
sans, cut as impartial friends Of truth and
Justice, and they all have vindicated Gene
Iral PIERCE from the assaults Of Robinson,
lGreeley & Co..
1t cannot be after all this, that this parade
of Irish names TO prove General PIERCE a
bigot is aught else than stale trick, for be
litreme mbered, this after-lhought whig certi-
Ificate is in direct issue with all the Catholic
editors who have testified on the subject,
and directly contradicts the certificate of the
2 Catholic Pastor at Concord! We pronounce
this certificate from the New Hampshire
Statesman, Extra, (the whig organ of thai
State as republished in the Journal of This
city. ga vile forgery" No true lrishmar
could be found we venture, in all Concord,
or in New Hampshire. 10 subscribe to its
false allegations against General PIERCE.
We need only publish the following tC
Isatisfy any sensible man that when we pro
lnounce this new and bastard certificate a
forgery, we name it rightly. The National
Democrat publishes Democratic talk BY
Major Hagadorn, at Staten Island, from
which we clip the following:
al have here letter on this subject au
1thorized if not dictated by Archbishop
Hughes himself.
New York, Aug. TO-, 1852.
MAJ. F. L. HAGADoRN- =
NV Dear Sir 81 share in your astonish
. ment at the cool pertinaci!y with which the
whig wire-pullers talk of the Catholic vote
, for Scott. II is true the Democrats here are
a little careless about contradicting them
but it is because they know that Gen. Scott's
) nomination by the church-burners of Phila-
! delphia, lin 1874 has sealed against him for.
ever the confidence of the Catholic clergy
:, In conversation with two bishops of the
Catholic Council of Baltimore, about his
: probable nomination, they agreed that they
knew no man of influence in The church who
ever will believe him free from secre: Ma
live Americanism.
\ Archbishop Hughes authorizes you 10 con.
tradict peemp,oriIy the idea that he desired
: 10 aid in the election OF General Scott. And
: he further says, "the whok public history o1
e Franklin Pierce is honorable to his states
manship, and auoactes that he is aoouc tn
least stain of narrop minded illibcrality Il
the adopted citizens of the Union" Iquot
the Archbishop's own words. 1t seems tt
t me nothing can be more conclusive than thil
: in evidence Of Catholic sentiment.
Your friend"
The Major is gentleman Of veracity, ant
. would not have introduced this letter as from
Il Bishop HUGHES had there not been goo'
e ground for it.
So, then, in Archbishop HUeHEs' "owl
words" "the whole public history of Gene
70 raj PIERCE avouches that he is above II
y least stain of marrow-minded illiberality t
II the adopted citizens Of the Union" This
l. proof enough that this last New Hampshir
+ Statesman affair is miserable piece {
trumpery and falsehood. Ohio Statcsma,