Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-08-25
A Beautiful Tribute to Gen. Pierce,

A Beautiful Tribute to Gen. Pierce.
Below we publish just and handsome
tribute to Gen. Pierce, taken from the
columns of the n. Y. Journal of Com
merce. The still, small voice of com
mendation from this respectable Wing
paper is heard with delight amid the
storm of calumny and detraction which
assails our noble leader:
"All who have with an impartial eye
observed the conduct of the nominee of
the Democratic party for the Office of
President, must have been struck with his
unobtrusive and modest course, and not
less with the high and manly spirit, when
ever called upon to act or to speak
These traits of character are rare in pub
lie men, and especially among those who,
bred to other pursuits, quit them in time
of war for service in the field. They are
ever associated with the highest qualities
of mind and of heart, and win for their
possessor the respect and the esteem
which Gen. Pierce's neighbors and
friends so generally and warmly feel for
him. We were lately near his residence
in the Granite Hills, and should have
personally paid our respects to him, but
that it might have been misreprcsented.
We heard, however, rot only from his
political friends, but also from his politi-
cal opponents, neighbors and acquaintan-
ces, the most friendly and respectful, and
often the most enthusiastic testimony of
his high and and noble qualities. Even
in the time of Judge Woodbury., it is con-
coded that Gen Pierce had command of
the State, but that he never used his
power and influence for himself, as he
preferred ever to live among his neigh
bors as private citizen, enjoying the hon
ors awarded to him on all hands as the
head of the bar of New Hampshire. His
resignation as Senator in Congress, as an
officer of the army when service could no
longer be rendered, and his refusal to ac-
cept the Office of Attorney General and
the gubernatorial chair of his State, are
acts in harmony with the universal opin-
ion held towards him by his neighbors
and friends. Gen. Pierce, however, by
no act or procurement of his, and from
the spontaneous action of the Democratic
Convention-such it unqueslionably was,
for we were present and witnessed-has
become the nominee of the great party
which it represented for the presidential
Office, and Instantly his whole career is
examined for one spot or blemish on
which calumny may expatiate until the
elections have decided the question now
before the country. A career which was
opened under the teachings of ancestry
which had fought and bled in the coun-
try's service in the great battle of the rev.
Olution, an ancestry famous for its high
and patriotic tone and bearing was q be-
ginning which could by no possibility ter
inmate in the dishonor which party ma
/ Lightly would now attach to the name Of
Gen. Pierce. Throughout the war in
Mexico he acted with courage /; and if he
erred at, all, it was on the side Of impru-
denee and unnecessary exposure. The
spontaneous tribute of Gen. Scott. paid to
! Gen. Pierce when the nomination of the
former was first received at Washington
4 by an assembled crowd, proves incontest-
ably that the sentiments of the army to-
wards Gen. Pierce was such as ever at
tends soldier who has cOurageously per-
formed his duty in battle. The name and
fame of those who have rendered patriot
10 service arc dear to the American peo-
ple' and should be protected from unjust
attack
! AZ He who resolves 70 amend, has
God m hi s;1e ' cl nriE re