Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-08-04
The Islander against Gen. Pierce.

/ The SANDER against Gen. Pierce.
! Il is well known to our readers that Wing
Editors and orators in the Southern States have
been alleging that in January last, Gen. Pierce the
Democratic Candidate for President, used the fol-
lowing expressions in aspeech in New Boston, New
! Hampshire
! ...'nsred NJ. LOAEHED IT. 1 HAVE A
| MOST REVOLVING FEELING AT THE GIn-
ING UP OF SLAYE-THE LAW Is W.
! POSED TO HUMANITY"
| This language is attributed to Gen. Pierce IN
communication which publised in the Man
chester IN. H. Democrat, in January last, which
communication protested to give an account OF MS
speech on the occasion referred to- This newspaper,
the Manchester Democrat and the Concord Demo
GRAFT which Joins it in its work of SANDER and de-
famation, are both abolition Journals edited, the
former by Goodall, and the latter by Fogg, both
A6ohtionists Of the blacklist stamp. They are OPP
posed to Gen Pierce's election, as they have uni
formlv been to his course as Democrat in New
Hampshire and it is utterly untrue, as alleged by
Southern Wing leaders, that they are now sup
porting him for the Presidency. But we need not
dwell upon the character of these papers, or say
ANYTHING more here as to the men who control
them, as the whole matter has been fully set forth
in the letter from New Hampshire to the New
York Herald, which we publish to-day, and to
which we invite the attention of our readers.
This charge against Gen. Pierce was branded rs
false, as soon as it appeared, by Messrs. Aver and
Campbell, of New Hampshire, gentlemen of high
character echo heard the speech referred to; and
thew were sustained in their statement as to the
Abolition character of the journals above-named,
bv Messrs Norris Peaslee, and Hbbard, members
of Congress from that State, who also bear their
testimony to the fact that Gen. Pierce has been
grossly misrepresented and slandercd. But we
have more proof on this subject-proof which ought
forever to silence the tongues of those who have
been so busily engaged this work of defamation.
We find in the last Washington Union the follow
ing document:
The undersigned having had their attention called
| 10 a communication published in the Manchester
Democrat of the Sth of January last, and republished
in the Washington Republic of the 18th instant, pur-
porting give account OF Gen. Pierces speech at
New Boston last winter, deem due to truth to make
! the following statement:
"'We were all of US present on the occasion re-
erred to- and are therefore able to speak positively in
regard the truihfulness of that report We do not
hesitate pronounce it, without any qualification,
a tissue of falsehoods from beginning to end. In
whole and in part in substance and detail, ii is emil
RELY and grossly false, and denounced by those
OF us who saw il the time of its original pubca-
lion. No expression there inputed to General
Pierce is correct, and most of them entire tabrca
tons, without The sightes: shadow of truth.
Gen. Pierce's speech upon this occasion was an
able, bold, and eloquent vindicatloD of the course
pursued by the democratic party of the State in
scinding the nomination of John Atwood, their form
candidate for governor on account of his joining
with the aboIionists in their opposition to the COM
| He Ia If he f1nit l. vo
law in perfect conformity to the requirements
Of the constitution, and one that were bound by
the highest considerations to observe and in
good faith He alluded to the arguments made use of
| by the higher-law politicians, and denounced their
doctrines fanatcal and dangerous. He showed
that their objections to the present fugtiveslave law
applied with equal force to the act of l793 and even
the constitution itself. The law of 1898, he said
had received the approval of Washington and of many
of the wsesl and pures patriots among the founders
of our republic, and he considered these
al, as virtuous, and as conscientious those noisy
abolitionsts who were now trying to overthrow the
| institutions they have established.
To who are acquainted with the character of the
warfare the abolition organs of this State have been
accustomed to wage against the democratic party,
communications in their columns like the above
referred to occasion surprise. Here they de-
ceiye no one. But as desperate attempt has been
made abroad to prejudice Gen. Pierce, by revving
some of their miserable falsehooos, we have deemed
it than simp act of justice to publish
our own signatures the foregoing declaration.
! Walter French, Dustin Marshall,
| J. G. Flanders, w. b. Johnson,
J. NJ. Campbell, Charles Bennett,
| B. F. Aver. George W. Hackett,
J. N. Haynes, A. l.. Hutchinson,
of Manchester,
J. L. Kennedy, Eli. Monroe, Of Amherst,
| Perey Dodge, John S. Carr,
Thomas R. Butterfeld, jeremiah Austin,
Alfred Story, Daniel B. Austin, of COTS.
town,
| Oren More, Jesse Carr,
! B. b. Whttemore, Geo. Bowers, of Nashua,
| William Parker, of Jamestown,
| " lillian H. Bachelor, Daniel Dodge, I'd,
John Gregg, Parker Bartlett,
John Smith, Stephen Bennett,
Aaron White, Jacob Bennett,
Jesse Wilkins, John Cochran, Cd,
Frank Flanders. Ezra Cores.
| S. F. Burnham, James B. White,
VIM. Bachelor, Horace Philbrick,
William Dodge, Samuel Dodge,
David Gregg, Abner H. Bentley,
George G. Fox. William Bentley,
James E. Flanders, Benz. Dodge, 4th,
! Benjamin Fletcher, Hiram Dodge,
Robert Whippe. Isaac Bartlett,
| jeremiah Burnham, John Giddings,
Benz. II. Livingston, Henry Damon.
| Peter Jones, Henry Hutchinson,
A. w. Jones, Asa M. Meen,
! George Adams, Russell Walker,
! Daniel Campbell, John Dorman,
! Josiah Warren, jr., Jacob Davis,
| R. B. Cochran, Ebenezer Foilansbee,
I Daniel Shepherd, Parker S. '-';Ilson,
John Q. A. Caldwell, James Wilson,