Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-10-16
Ietthe PeopIe Beware Of Tricks,

We have reasons to believe that the opponents of
Pierce and King now preparing to throw their last
card in this contest knowing they do, that unless
the popular tide is turned in their favor they are bound
to be overwhelmed in November. The givings out of
the wing central committee Washington, headed by
Truman Smith, together with the Developments recent
ly made in Ohio and western N. York and the more
recent boast that gentleman in Dinwjddie county,
Va, held in reserve letter from Gen. Scott these
with the addition that Greeley has announced list OF
appointments in Ohio, and OK governor Johnson in
Pennsylvania and it being generally asserted that they
prepared to show that Gen. Scott is the man, and
not p Hale the reesoilers abolitionsts and wings,
Should their votes for gives force to the conclu
sious we have come to- that game low and disrepu-
table is foot which will be sprung just on the eve oil
the election. We have heard OF no reason assigned
that could have brought Gen SCOTS Private SecretG
RI into this section Of the country. aside from that of
electioneering purposes And 1t Is far to presume
that as nothing vet has transped indicating the OBJ
ect of that VISIT that he charged with some secret
agency the result of which may be made apparent at
moment too late in the to be met and crush
ed We have not forgot the McClearnardt trick of l8-
4S have forgot the attempt to PROVE without
word of truth, that bargain between Cass and the
treeSoerS oil the NOrtn was lnto1 ny WA'CH
that faction to cast their votes fer Cass.
This has been thus far almost exclusively, canvass
of fasehoods The private reputation of Gen Pierce,
has been assaulted with bitterness and acrimony al
most unparalleled in the history of political contests.
/ Throwing aside the record made up by himself as a
member of Congress and U. S. Senator, he has been
hunted with the keenness of scent that characterzes
the hyena and the ferocity which alone eevates the
famshed wolf above all other beasts of prey. Moth
ing in the catalogue Of crime, was too low for him not
to have descended to- and according to his opponents
he is coward a bully, drunkard gambler, whore
monger, liar, cheat, hypocrt and to end all, he is
democrat and the candidate of that party for the Pre-
sidency
In soberness, we ask our opponents, if this sort o.
warfare is all they have upon which to rely for
in this canvass Itwoud seem so, for they have as
sailed believe in the South, but two votes of his il
the u S. Congress, and the balance ofthe material
gainst him, is almost entirely personal 1t is not ou
intention to appeal to our opponents to desst. W.
are content with their satisfied are, tina
the good of the people will detect the object
well the grossness of the assaults and ascrbe then
to the right source to wit the lack of other weapon
of warfare.
We say readers therefore, to be their guar
against the last efforts of the opposition. All that
is possible to say against Franklin Pierce, has bee
said. All that violence and malevolence say ha
been said all that the ingenuity of the desperate ca
invent has been invented and if more of this same ma
teral snail be thrown just at the close of the cor
test be assured is from the mint of those despera
does who make politics trade having reduced lyn
to system, and detracton to the cardinal principl
in their system