The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-09-26


brave men Of the Greek army Therses dead his feet
he furnished useful admonition TO caumnaiors il he
did not extinguish the race itself The leaders OF The
Seward Scott party in the present campaign have
lated the ribaid Grecan in the invention OF Their false
hoods and have provoked for their hopes the humiliation
which beiell the assailan, OF Agamemnon and Ulysses
They have coined accusations OF The bases and blacklist
character They have employed the foules, means 10
give cIedibiliy their iabications Every expetient
that could be invoked in their crusade upon Gene.
raj franklin Pierce has been resorted 10. No matter
how disgusting the charge, how improbable the
details, they have labored give currency without
stopping TO ascertain its true character Each of these
attacks upon reputation has been successfully and in
dgnanily scattered 10 the winds Not oue preserves lis
vitality. Wing witnesses come forward to disprove or
10 denounee the whole brood. The baeful falsehooi
against tie habits OF General Pierce persisted Of is own
poison, and the very papers that originated have come
forward and asked forgiveness for their reklessness
The formal attack upon the galantry of Gen Pierce in
the field OF battle, first held up as Infamous by The
unsolicited tribaie OF General Scott himself aroused
the chiyaly OF the army in execraon of it, and has been
u,ed by the indignant and eloquent testimony OF every
grade of officers in the service and by many of the
brave who volunteered during the war with Mex
South. concocted by the aboltioniss OF the East and
disseminated by their followers in other quarters, has
been voluntarily secuted by OF the most eminent
wings OF The country and left among the general
OF stale and oathed caumnes as "ths very cast
of slough OF polluted and shameless press" aIncapa
bic OF further mischief, lies in the sewer eless and
dsspsed" harder fate, if possible than that which
las attended any of the earlier creations of the derraved
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seconssts has crushed the miserable charge against the
democratic candidate of having been hostile to religious
freedom al home. The very was Intended to preu.
dice came forward and testified that it was Infamous;
and the Catholic press outraged appeal based upon
scandalous accusation. stamped the seal OF inamy
upon party capable OF invoking TO its aid such egradng
and dishonorable influences.
The las, emission IRON the fruitful mint OF Sewardsm
was, however, The boldes and abandoned II had
been carefully compounded II concentrated in one d.
and unequvocal charge all The venom and the reck
Iessness Of the foes OF the democratic party Dssem.
mated hrs, upon Iumor, it for while the current
calumny OF the whg ros,erers OF the bar.roons; and
finally il assumed shape and dsinctness as an anony.
contribution irresponsible spaper Then il
took lis place in the armory of Seward deiamatous and
though few decent wing presses and some who feared
participate in its circulation, the great body OF the Sew
ardScot organs caught up the reekiRg and wreiched
fabrication and gave il their readers with greedy une
ton. Finally, the gentleman whom they had given as
their authority himself appeared in letter to the BALI
American; and the whole caumny, which had been
announced beyond contradiction was left 10 res, upon
the sbadowy and indefinite basis Of his Impressions as
to an affair which be did not claim to have seen, and
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this stop the nsatae patsans who had been LET loose
to hunt down the democratic candidate On the con.
a, they held up this letter the proof OF their profit
gate faisehood. Upon this evidence they proclaimed
General Pierce guilty Of the dshonor which umor had
laid at his door Upon this they invoked the latent mo-
ralies Of the wing party their aid and claimed that
their accusation had been uumphanily sustained.
We need remind the reader that we refer 10 the al
legged indisoi,y inflicted upon General Pierce al social
panty BY brother officer in Mexico. which il was
charged The former did not resent The manner in
which II was originated, the proof upon which il was
sustained and the hendish spirit in which il as affirmed
and echoed BY the Seward Scott press are all familiar 10
,hs psops.
Colonel John Bankbead Magruder il will also no, be
forgotten, the officer whose name was given as that
Of the gentleman who inflicted the indigniiy upon Gen
hs oonnexon with the affair could be used with success
He q wing He Of the Scott school OF soldiers
And at the time that il agreed to make him the
witness against General Pierce, bis lbeers doubtless
knew that he at San Diego, in California stationed
there military duty. They believed that their inamy
would not reach him in time, and that before he could
answer the fatal stab would have been given. Ba,
banquo himse when he appeared at the festive board
OF Macbeth, bloody and pale, did no, teuify the Scottish
murderer more than de the unexpected testimony Of
Colonel Msgrudsr which reached in time to fall upon
the chandeliers Of General Pierce ike thundebot from
c'oudiess sky The coincidence was as remarks
BILE - the testimony complete Colonel Masuder
did not because be could not, speak OF the lae., wrong
Of those whose FIRST heaess injuries upon Gen Pierce
he wrose indignantly and elequently TO repair and 10 re
bske. As wing. he condemned them from his IA, Pa
c6c ssafion As frienl Of Scott he seemed hem And
his letter had the additional value that while il wa. NOT,
written expose their final fraud spon General Pierre.
and upoa the truth, (riieh fraud CoOns !sagruasr vii
~sas~ rrsO-) .so~ed 70 TIE country aaf ne port
IA ws mode 70 pas by ina SSard rhsgs, Tia insu.r
sf0eH~n FSr1, monsfrous and sridaeiow fai.t.
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The shtct OF Colonel Msgruder's letter Is known. II