Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-11-03
EX-GOVERNOR sTEELEs TESTIMONY.


We have been permitted to make an extrac
from letter written by Exc Governor Steele Of New
Hampshire, to 3 relative of his in Western North
Carolina, in which he bears the fullest and strong
est testimony to the soundness Of Gen. Pierce and
This qualifications for the Presidency. Gov. Steele
is a native Of Salisbury, North Carolina. He re-
sided for some time in the town of Fayetteville
where he followed the business Of wheel-wright
subsequently he emgrated to New. Hampshire,
where his sterling qualities raised him to the high
est State office in the gift of the people,. =
Tie letter is dated Peterborough, New Hamp-
shire, August Sd, 1852. Gov. Steele says:
"You inquire whether am acquainted with Gen
Pierce, and what are his political principles. and
whether, if he is elected, he will administer the gov
ernment in national spirit, and not suffer himself to
|be misled by any OF tie isms of the day.. take
pleasure in saying that am we'll acquainted with
Gen. Pierce-haye known him for years-heard his
first legislative speech and have either heard or read
gevery thing of his that has since been published
land have yet to see or hear from his tongue pen
|g the first iNiberal section al sentiment His pot
Iicsl sentiments of the purest Jeersonian stamp,
and his mind of that pure character that nothing coad
induce him to swerve from what he believed to be-
the best interest of his country-hs uho country
ation perversion of the plain meaning and intent
|of the Constitution of the Union, would be scornfu-
rejected In Short have doubt that if elect
ed he will prove to be what he always has been, a
truly national man-one who knows no South, no
IN orth, no East, no West further than to do equal
land exact justice to all. There is spot or blem
ish belonging to his character. He is truly one of
Is natures noblemen "-an open honest, and frank
|man-one who scorns mean action, and never yet
known to court the great or neglect the humble
In short, have known him for twenty years; and
amongst all the public men / ever knew, believe
|him-take him all in ALTO be the one best cacula-
tied to heal silence the nany arrng discords that
have of late shaken our beloved country from its CEN
tire to its extremities, not by pandeng with tavor
ing this that faction, section, but 5y open,
Straightforward administration of the government
|cording to the written chart laid down by fore
fathers for our guidance.
No doubt some Of the many slanders which have
been proPagaed by reckless press against General
PIERCE will have reached your section Do not be-
lieve them; they false from beginning to end
mot only false, but could be proved be so even in
IA court of jusce.''
The Fayetteville Carolinian of late date pub
fishes letter written by Gov. Steele to citizen
|of Fayetteville dated October 4, 1852, in which,
referring to these ISLANDERS against Gen. Pierce, he
says, "they are intended for distant market,
mot for New Hampshire, where Pierce is known.
|rhe venerable Ex-Governor concludes his letter to
ibis Fayetteville friend as follows:
Call franklin Pierce coward why, that man
does not live who, were he untrameled by the posi-
|tion which he holds, would dare to do it; and even
II, old as am, would give any man Cat all worth no
tice) the lie direct who should in my presence call
him coward. Call him an aboltionist the thing
s only absurd in itself, but is pumply contra
dcted not only by his past life. but by hundreds who
heard his New Boston speech well as by himself.
would give you the character of Elder Foss, his &C.
cuser together with Foss's endorsers, but forbear
suffice ii to say that Elder Foss isa ramping. rag.
ing aboitionst of the deepest dye and his endorsers
|Fogg and Goodale are editors of reckless abolition
papers neither of them would or could be believed
iby any decent man."