The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-09-29
Further Testimony I'm vindicnti-
en Of General Pierce.
Letter from .Nesc Hampshire Catholic to his
nephew il West Troy,

Letter from .Neu Hampshire Catholic to his
nepheW ia West Troy,
LrsroS, N. H., August ~, 1852.
| You asked me to give You my opinion of
General Frank PIERCE, for the information OF
ou- Catholic brethren in and about Troy.
You may rely upon it, nothing can give me
greater pleasure than to comply with your re-
quest | am well acquainted with the course
of Gen. Pierce as a public man, for the last
twcnry-f.ur years and ! have the honor
to have been personally acquainted with
him for seven or eight years, and |
do most sl.mnly declare to my friends, that
never was acquainted with purer patriot or a
moro high minded gentleman. What is still
| more, better friend to our countrym"n DIES
40. exist. Ills interc lrse with us is marked
BY the u mos, hbera!i'y and freedom from reli-
! gious big airy. No man ever saw in his con
d let the slightest pref dice towards those Of our
creed--on he con rary, he is incapable by ma
,u-e Of such unworthy impulses. In this res
poet, you my pc M up III i h, is one ct most
noble hearted and un kept unable me! ever
saw.
| furthermore state to you as truth, That
he is The first man in the St,tr, ] ever heard
express in pnbllc, sarpr .bati,n Of The religi
Gus test and tina was the first tine ever hard
| Gen PIfRc address a public III etng O.! his
| fellow ci liens
That was seven years ago lie tien character
! zea this test as disgrace to the $ ate, and
sad a. h. for one, was Shan.d ami mpriiG
! ed when abr ,ad to hea' grntlrm II from other
states alnd, t. the fact that it still part
o. our sa e constitution He confessed that he
thou rh it is { ul blot the d inocrutic Stae
OF New Hampshire, and avowrd his d'.termi
mt IN to do all that lay in has power to have il
ahoshrd. and 8, he has done. All that one
man 'uld d }, to my own knowledge, he has
done publicly and privately to Ell ct the abo It'll
on of this vii. test-Greel-y's jickail T. the
ntrary notwithstanding.
! wish you 10 remember. Gen. PIER
sx d d ali this long before h. or his
friend. thought Of his being a candidate for
the Presdency-aad RENE mbcr, too, that at the
! very time the whig candidate for the Presiden-
cy was laying his plans t, exclude our comm
trymcn from the ri shts of ciiiz nship, Gen
PIERCE was cxerting 10 obtain tor our just
rights in the important particulars tn which /
have al uded "ssert with confidence, that
| there is NJ man living WHO better serves the
support Of adopted ci,izcns than our own FkAsK
PIERCE. lie is as it were, one Of Us, and he is
one OF the great democratic brotherhood Of
mankind. ! clnno. TX plain to you in a letter
on....nth or one hundred:h part Of what know
abnu: Gen. PiEscE, and which illustrates his
noble and generous character.
en- assur" YIN As fact, that lift were NJ.
| cessary. would 20 as far as New Or :
ans to vote for General Pierce.
"as always en- matter I Of surprise to me
that any man who xpects to g.t living By
his labor, could support modern whygcry. /
remember the time when VIII editor in New
York, who had all The feeling 1T his party a
gans' foreigners, exhibited thu feeling On the
arrival Of vessels with Irish emigran,s, by the
remark, tht ship had just arrived wi 30
much liv, "ck" | do MT see how any
lrisbntu, ofthe pure old patriotic stock, can
with clear conscience, supp IT Grerlyism or
modern whigg ~. As for tn notoriousR"binson
re is wei known by the c,m?,ny he has kept
for the last twelve years; besides, you and
Ind every homes lrshnan in America, m,,s'
Acknowledge that it would be hard to work to
find a Robinson in ireland, who did not
spring from the cursed Orange tree--nt least
never saw one, who was no. scion of that
stock. As s"E MS sp~ecn aynfnst FIERCE, you
and your friends may SAFELY drnounce it has
issue Of false hoods rlse could you ex-
reet from man calling hi ns-ll an freshman,
who has been so long ALI d with the parry
whose candidate tor the Prcsid 'ncy was f,r
years the le der and champion Of the Nativist
organization. Our people onyht n spusu the
viper VIII political associat ons sew his real
hostility 10 foreigners.
re,nrmb' the New York charter election,
in "a when the wings, with wi IN he nas"ci-
,tes, broke into the U s. Arsenal and armed
bout FIVE hundred wings. The Mayor. re-.
'lIect, got there in time II d, p.'ve them Of
their arms, and that they thin expressed tn l.
regret that hey did Il get them little sooner,
that they might have shot twp or tn &c hundred
i eth. ID Irish" So much for Robinson
and his hg assoc: atcs. Prrvi ,ns to "a they
hid assumed var ona names VIII oh they dissr,c
ID and abandon d, and think it will not b..
NJ Def re thy abandon the p~s>se of Wing
That parry may live until tho end 4! November
n xt but by that time the Great high Priest,
Greedy, may az well he prepared T. read the
funeral service of whgg'ry, and his parish clerk
Robinson, to Ping out men, SO may i, be-
But have written enough to s,,istv you and
I'll y'ur friends Of tie thu, character, and
urs" OF General PIER"E unless they dnub,
YOU and icing lrishln"n AMI Cath ,lics, which
they c"nnnt. They may rest assured that Gem
raj PIrRcE is man after the brave JAcKs,x's
aart, a true friend Of the oppressed of any ma
ion and of rel,g i,us tnlrrati"n-a man whose
h art and purse al ways open to the I'm 'ort l.
,ate, W. bout dist nc'i o C erd or Dir h.