Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-10-23
THREATENED RENEWAL OF THE SLAVERY
AGITATION

"Taers are fTeesoa men, ahO in supporting Frankie
PIERCE, futy eet hat he elected they and those rh.
think Th them V Be asmuch favored By his Adiaistrato,
as slapeholdss themselves. National Era
The foregoing significant paragraph is taken from
the organ Of the Freesoil party at Washington, 1.-THE
NATIONAL Era, and may be supposed to speak with
sufficient authority for the interest which il repre-
sents But there are other reasons sanctioning the
statement of the Era which must satisfy every in.
telhgent and candid mind that the Abolition agita
tors, who have. heretofore prosecuted their bitter
warfare against Southern institutions and disturbed
the tranquility of the Union are stimulated to
their present efforts in favor of Gen. Pierce by the
assurance OF consideration and reward in the event
OF his success. They are not Of the class of poll
ticians who toll for the sake of party or from
any belief in the principles which they may conve-
niently espouse The spos of victory are the only
incentives to their patriotism; and the expectation
of power to be exercised for the unholy purpose Of
alternating the North and South the stimuant which
excites their hungry passions If they did not kao,c
Gen Pierce to be plastic agent in their hands they
would not trust him. or combine, as they have done
to promote his election.
What care such demagogues for platforms? The
Eeening Post, the chief accredited organ Of the
Freesoil party in New York, boasts daily that the
declarations of the Baltimore Convention endorsing
the Compromise were farce, not obligatory in any
moral or political sense, and adopted by lit
tie fragment of the Convention without any formal
or responsible division, on the eve of adjournment.
1t appeals for the Freesol support, because Gen.
PIERCE, unlike his rival competitors for the nomi-
nation refused to respond to the interrogatories OF
Mr. r. c. Scott, and for the further reason that he
is better entitled to their peculiar confidence and
partiality. These are the arguments employed by
Mr. David Wilmot in this State, by the Buffers,
Dixes Van Burens, Preston Kings, Bryants, and
the like, in New York; by the Clevelands, in Con-
necticut by the Haletts, in Massachusetts; by the
DORIS, in Rhode Island; by the Wentworths, in
Illinois by the Dodges and Dotys, in Wisconsin
and by that whole tribe of Democratic allies who
have poisoned the political atmosphere with their
foul exhalations, and who are now banded together
to the sectional war at the first favorable OPP
portunity. These are the chosen counsellors and
confdants of Franklin Pierce. They are the men
selected in advance to direct his Administration,
should their corrupt combinations prosper, and the
brokers who will sell the honors and the offices to
the highest bidders
And if still further evidence were wanting to
establish the conspiracy which has been concocted
between these enemies of the public peace and the
Democratic party, it is only necessary to look at the
recent coalition which they perfected in Massachu-
sets; the manner in which the Democrats have
just aided in the reelection of the notorious Gid
dings to Congress- and the speeches of John Van
Buren,, now the chosen Democratic stump declaim-
er, on the hustings The leading Freesol press
has raised one united voice for Gen. Pierce These
signs are omnous and impressive. The rejecting
patriot, who would keep down agitation, whether
he lives at the North or the South, must regard
them with painful interest; for he cannot fail to
detect, in the consummation of the end at which
they AIM repetition of sectional strife, and under
circumstances which would preclude the hope of
satisfactory compromise american.