Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-09-02

I'd publish
| make. this request, presuming
y@ur object, like miue :. to have been
I'll G discovery Of the ruth.
Very respectfully,
Ell WIZ DELEoN.
Was4ington, 4usd st 10, 1892
WASHINGTON, July II, 1852.
DEAR Ehclos I'D YOU WI find
al article, in which, as one of the
editors of the Southern Press, Of
| this city, took issue Win iny col
leisue in advocacy of your claims TO
sd thern support Tor {he Presidency.
grhat action was predicted upon my
belief Of your entire soundness upon
the slavery question: Within the
+ last week a speech, Ipurporting to
have been delivered by You in Janu-
AIRY last, has been republisAed from
two d hmocratic papers in your own
StateI (Which are said now to support
YOU'D On the truth or falsity Of
this, much depends. Neither those
with whom | act, nor myself, can
consent that any doubt should rest
on d natterof such Importance; but,
placihg full reliance OH the fearless
frank hess of your character, on their
behalf and my own, | respectfully
ask Of you whether that report,
which your southern Supporters be-
lieyb to be without loud dation as OPP
posed 10 your previous course, is cor
rect? 4
|. The peculiar position which oc-
cupY must plead my apology for
troubling you with This letter.
4 Very respectfully, y(ur obedient
servant, EDWINIDE LEON. /
General T. PIERCE, Concord, n. H. !
4 CoScoR RID, N. IL, July %, 1852. |
MY DEAR SIR: Surrounded by
pressing. engagements, l seize the
earliest opportunity to i ply TO your
letter Of the 18th inst. | much re-
greet that any thing col nected with
myself should have bee the cause
Of disagreement between you and the
gentleman with whom yo u have beenf
associated in the editorial department
of the Southern Press. / do not re
member ever to have see b what pur-
ports to be a report Of a speech de-
livered by me at New Bo$ton, in this
State, in January last, a til my at
tention was called to- il as republished
in the Republic The p4 etcnded re-
port is, and presume wds designed I
to be, an entire isrepfesentation.
1t is not merely untruthIh l, but is so
grossly and absurdly i;Ilsd as TO rem
der, III this vicinity, any denial of its
authenticity entirely unnf cessary.--
The two papers quoted The hide L
pendent Democrat, publi4 he'd in this
place, and The Democrat, published
III Misunderstanding thoro4 highly abo-
lition Journals; and have been and
are zealously opposed to the demo-
cratic party, For a long time prior
10 the meeting at New Boston, and
eyer since, they have been unsparingI
ID their attacks upon me personally,
md in their bitter denunc citation of
chat they have been pleasdd to term
ny pro-alavery sentiments. But it
you'd be something new for either Of.
lesc papers to deny the consistency ]
# my opinions u pom the subject of !
he constitutional rights Of The South
II relation TO slavery. Ny opinions ,
nd The ayowal of them hive been |
everywhere the same Eye Or mind
i'll of the difficulties and dangers
Which 50 long brooded ovdr the as {
of wise men and pure pa j.,
riots to whose spirit Of cPncession 7
md earnest efforts we are indebted
or the Constitution under Which we G
AVE enjoyed such signal prosperity, Y