Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-08-25
Coxconn. N. H.. JulY 23, 1e6q

CONCORD, N, H., July %, 1852.
My DEAR SIR Surrounded by press
ing engagements, seize the earliest op-
portunity to reply to your letter of the
18th inst. much regret that anything
connected with myself should have been
the cause ofdisagreementb between you and
gentlemen with whom you have been as
ISOLATED in the editorial department Of the
Southern Press. do not remember ev-
er to have seen what purports to be
a report of a speech delivered by me at
Now Boston, in this State, in January
last, until my attention was called to it as
re.published in. the Repu6lic The pre-
tended report is, and presume was de-
signed to be, an entire Misrepresentation.
1t not merely untruthful, but is so gross
ly and absurdly false as to render, in this
vicinity, any denial Gifts authenticity en-
tirely unnecessary
The two papers quoted-the Audepend-
ent Democrat, published in this place, and
the Democrat published in Manchester
arc Thoroughly abolition journals and
have been and are zealously opposed to
tho Democratic party. For q long time
prior to the meeting at New Boston, and
ever since, they have been uusparing in
their attacks upon me personally, and in
their bitter denunciation of what they
have been pleased to term my pro.slave-
ry sentiments. But it would be some
thing new for either OF these papers to
deny the consistency Of my opinions upon
the subject of the constitutional rights of
the South in relation to slavery.
My opinions and the avowal of them
have been every where the same. Ever
mindful of the difficulties and dangers
which SO long brooded over the assem-
blagc Of wise men and pure patriots to
whose spirit of Concession and earnest Of,
forts we arc indebted for the Constitution
under which we have enjoyed such signal
prosperity advancement and happiness,
have regarded the subject as too vital
and delicate to be used as an element Of
sectional appeal in party conflicts. My
action and my language in New Hamp-
shire, touching this matter, have been al
all times and under all circumstances in
entire accordance with my action and Ian
guage at Washington.
My votes in the Senate and House Of
Representatives were not published in the
Era for the first time. They have been
again and again puraded to arouse the
passions and prejudices of our people
against me individually, and against the
party with which it has been my pride
and pleasure to act. There has been no
attempt to evade the face of the record.
1t has been at all times freely admitted,
and my position sustained upon grounds
satisfactory to my own mind, lam not sur
prised to know that the attempt to prove
me an abolitionist provokes much mer-
riment among men OF all parties here and
this weak and untruthful sketch of what
purports to be my speech, is really too ri
dicnlous to be considered in any serious
light.
I an in the daily receipt ofletters, pro-
pounding the greatest variety of curious
questions, upon all conceivable subjects.
Letters ofthis character cannot be answe-
red, of course, No individual could com
mand either the time or strength the her.
eulean task would require. / may add,
that such correspondence would by no
means comport with my views of duty
The Democratic party sent its delegates
to Baltimore not alone to nominate can
didates, but to reaffirm principles and to
present the leading issues upon which the
canvass should be conducted
i'll could deem myself capable OF I'M
proving the platform there adopted, It is
quite certain that should decline, either
at the call of individuals on associations,