Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-09-08

guished Wing OF this State, who, snort
time since was one of the Wing Electors
for the State at large. and who has lately
witnessed what he affirms &c take leave
'to say that was very highly gratified
spectator, and only regret that every man
sin the South could not see and hear all
that saw and heard in Faneuill Hall
last night, and at the great meeting at
'Hillsborough; for they would feel, I am
sure, as now do, that the Democratic
party of new England, is as sound upon
the Compromise question and the Con-
'stitutional rights of the South, as the
South itself, and that the Union is safe
sin its keeping" We have no doubt of
the truth of this remark We believe that
Franklin Pierce, the representative of
that party is sound upon these questions,
and that the history OF his public career
proves it. We believe that he is devoted
to the constitutional rights of the South,
and that the Union will be safe in his kee-
ping,
The abolitionists are the enemies of the
Union, for in their madness they urge
measures, which must, if successful, de-
stroy the Federal compact; and to gain
their ends, their course is to denounce,
traduce, and PROSTATE every Northern
man, who dares to defy them. Do not
let us be guilty of the folly of promoting
their policy, by listening to falsehood, and
refusing our confidence to Northern men
whose whole lives show they are entitled
to it. The sentiment, founded on a sup
posed law higher than the Constitution,
which is entertained by some at the North,
is by no means universal, and those who
do hold it, are the unrelenting enemies of
Franklin Pierce Even now, while an at
tempt is made to excite distrust of him at
the South, the effort is made at the North,
to show that he is supple tool of slave
owners.
An abolition paper issued in Washing
ton, has published an article headed, "Mr.
Pierce and the Anti-slavery Movement"
in which are carefully compiled all his
votes in the House of Representatives and
in the Senate, on questions growing out
of the Anti Slavery agitation since 1888,
and which concludes with the following
paragraph
at may be said that others in those
days, voted as he did, who, since then,
have shown their devotion to freedom
True, but he continued unchanged. When
John p. Hale, his intimate friend for 20
/ years, faithful to his convictions of right,
denounced the annexation of Texas in
defiance of the edicts of his party, Mr..
| pierce, trampling underfoot his long
Standing friendship, turned upon the in
! dependent representative, followed on
This track with relentless hostility, utterly
prescribed him, and compelled the De-
'mocratic press of his State to eat its own
! two dc Not hot
'he has been the leader of the Hunker
!. Democracy of New Hampshire; and
when Mr.. Atwood, the regular nominee
'of the Democratic party, frankly avowed
his disapprobation of the Fugitive-Slav
Law; Mr.. Pierce attempted to browbeat
him into retraction of his honest words,
and then led on the party in the work of
making new nomination of ascertained
devotion to the slavcholding interest"
A member of Congress informs his con-
stituents in Tennessee, over his own sig
nature, that thousands of copies of this
document are now being circulated at the
North, with the view of showing there
that Gen. Pierce is devoted to the slave
interest, while at the South the effort is
made to excite distrust of his fidelity to
the Constitution, by representing him as
having opposed the Fugitive Slave Law.
1t is an insult to your understanding to
suppose that you can be cajoled by such
an artifce; or that you can be deceived
into the abandonment of public man,
date of your party, who has virtue and
ability, with whom you agree in political
principle, whose enemies are not your
friends, and who will exult over his deg
radiation, the result of their arts, and laugh
at your credulity, if you permit them to
succeed.
The Wing party have presented to the
country as the opponents of Pierce and
King, Major General Winfield Scott, of
the army of the United States, and VIM.
: A. Graham, Esq, of North Carolina
Their candidate for the Vice Presidency
has enjoyed the advantage of some SER
vice in the Legislative and Executive De-
partments of his native State, has served
in the United States Senate several years,
and as the head of the Navy Department,
since Mr.. Fillmorc's accession to the Pre-
sldency. His associate in tho nomination,
Gen. Scott, has never served in any CT
vii Office. He entered the regular army
III AoO'b las SeINeu Ill IL ever since, ana
now holds his commission in the highest
rank. When Mr.. Graham accepted the
nomination, he resigned his Office and
; became private citizen. Gen. Scott
has not resigned, but wears his epau-
: lettes and his sword, and is exercising all
the powers and privileges of his high
/ command. We do not intend to question
} the military service which he has rem.
, dered his country. He has been sue
cessful soldier, and although he has moi
: been exempt from military criticism, and
, has not unfrennently been emhrnilnd viii,