The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1852-09-29
The standard, FoSs, FOgg, and
IIaslctf.

The Standard is evidently very much troubled
at the accumulated, evidence which has been pro-
duccd to sustain The report Of Gen. Piercc's New
Boston speech, and consequently il lahors hard,
week uiier week. to demosh poor Foss. the report
or. No one denies that Foss Is an abolitionist,-
an aboliiionisi IL you please, Of the deepest dye,
like good many others Of the New Hampshire
Democrats; but II we discredii him on this sc-
count, we have to reject, by the same rule, the
testimony on the other side also, and we are Left
10 rely upon the cilcumslantial evidence alone.
which clearly convicls Gen. Pierce. But FOES
is sustained, be il remembered, by eighteen OF
twenty others, who aceor TO their testimony,
while none on the opposite side have vcntured 10
verify their testimony by the same test.
The Standard thinks il is enough that Gen.
Pierce has denied over his own name the correct
ness Of Mr.. Foss's report We are not disposed
10 question the ycracily Of Gen. Pierce. His lci-
ter was published in the Recorder, and our read.
ers had an opportunity Of seeing ho,r he denied
il. He does not stale in il what he did say, or
what he did not say but simply that the report
was an "entire Misrepresentation" And he
having failed TO state what were the sentiments
which he uttered on that occasion, we are left TO
gather them up as we can. And what do we
find The report Of speech delivered at Man
chester, N. H., BY Gen. Pierce, on the goth Of
November, 1850, published in the Standard, and
therefore acknowledged 10 be correct, contains
the following declaration.
Who did mol Hepidre slavery But what
sound thinking mind regarded that as the only
evil that could rest upon the land! The men
that would dissolve the Union, did not hate OF
depiore slavery more than he did"
IN the Union Democrats notice Of the New
Boston speech, acknowledged by Gen. Picrce's
friends to be correct he is represented TO have
said that slavery had teea introduced into a
portion of the States in their colonial condition
against the moral sense Of the world"
In speech in the Senate of the United States
reported in the Globe, he declared. Il have No
hesitation in saying that consider slavery so.
cial and political evil, and mos, sincerely wish /,
had no existence on the face Of the EARTH"
And these sentiments he put into praclica
operation, when in the House of Representatives
in 1884, he voted against giving permission te
Edmond Brooke to remove into the District o
Columbia two slaves owned BY him swiiile III
Virginia.
But the circumstances under which Genera
Pierces denial was made. Mr.. Dc Leon had in
formed him, that unless the sentiments reported
as his in the New Boston speech. were discIaim.
ed by him, there wculd be no hops for him ia
the South. VIVA, credit would the STANDARD
give to declaration made by Gen. Scott under
such circumstances And what hooting would
II make, If Gen. Scott, having delivered speech
10 January which was grossly misreisesented ia
paper Published in the town in which he resi-
ded, should In July, when ], became necessary
TO deny it, have stated that he did moi rememhci
ever to have seen II before In such case, in
the Standards eye, paper could not he so con-
temptible as to justify such forgetfulness.
Gen. Pierce is but man. The sentiments he
was reported to have uttered were popular in the
locality in which they were first Published, and
he was willing to take advantage Of il, and kept
silent until after bis nomiaa;ion q the Presiden.