The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-12
From the Washington Union.
The Republic and the Conspiracy of Sian
der against Gen. Pierce.

der against Gen. Pierce.
We think it is about time to have done in
our columns with the foul and exploded con-
spiracy of the abolitionists to present Gen
Pierce as an abOlitionist in his views, in or.
der to defeat his election. The baseness and
the foolhardiness of the plot stand out in
bold relief on its face In its whole concep-
ton and execution it is utterly selfcontra-
dictory. If Gen. Pierce holds abolition
opinions and publicly declares them as these
men allege, then why do the abolitionists
hate and denounce him, and why has he
through his whole life hated and defed them,
and trampled down them and their doctrines?
This fact alone is the unqnswerable refuta-
ton of the whole calumny; and the whsle
conspiracy would have been hardly worth
noticing but for the light which it throws
on the infamous practices to which whig
leaders and leading wing organs are resort
ing to delude and mislead the people in the
present canvass.
By way of finishing this matter, and of
putting it in the power Of all our readers to
judge for themselves how monstrous an out
rage has been perpetrated by the wing and
abolitiOnist conspirators against Gen. Pierce,
we now place before our readers the follow
ing conclusive testimony of the officers of
the New Boston meeting and the principal
men who attended it. The original manu-
script of the document containing the origi-
nal signatures has been placed in our posses
sion, and it must be regarded as the direct
testimony of the meeting itself as to the
speech of General Pierce. But this is not
all nor the most. We now state, as matter
of our own personal knowledge, that Gen
Pierce, over his own signature, has repeated
/ ly denounced the report in question, of hi:
speech at New Boston, as grossly false-as
tissue of falsehoods, and complete anG
total misrepresentation of what he then said
This precludes the necessity of any further
testimony on the subject; and if we allud,
to the matter again, it will be not to vindi
cate Gen. Pierce from a charge as senseles
in itself as it is utterly exploded by the evi
dence, but rather to hold up to the just in
dignation of the country the foul conspira
cy which the whig leaders and organs hav
made part of their partisan warfare, no
only upon Gen. Pierce, but upon the RICH
of the people to know his true position.
The document to which we have referre,
is in the following terms:
''The undersigned having had their at
tentiOn called to communication publishes
e in the Manchester Democrat of the 9th q
January last. and republished in the Wash
ington Republic of the 18th instant, pun
porting to give an account of Gen. Pierce
speech at New Boston last winter, deem
due to truth to make the following state
ment:
eve were all of US present on the occs
. sion referred to, und are therefore able t
speak positively in regard to the truthful
ness of that report We do not hesitate t
pronounce it, without any qualification, a til
sue of falsehoOds from beginning to end
In whole and in part, in substance and de
tail, it is entirely and grossly false, and wa
so denounced by those of us who saw it &
the time of its original publication. No on
: expression there imputed to Gen. Pierce,
# correct, and most of them are entire fabr
r cations, without the slightest shadow {
truth.
. "Gen. Pierce's speech upon this occasio
= was an able, bold, and eloquent vindicatio
it of the course pursued by the Democrat
q party of the State IN resembling the nomin'
ton of John Atwood, their former candidat
> for governor, on account of his joining wit
q the abolitionists in their opposition to th
compromise measures. He spoke of tt
fugitive slave law as an act in perfect col
formity to the requirements of the constitl
ton, and one that we were bound by ii
highest consideration to observe and execui
in good faith. He alluded to the argumen
made use Of by the higher law politician
and denounced their doctrines as fanatic
and dangerous. He showed that their o.
jections to the present fugitive slave law a
piled with equal force to the act of 179,
and even the constitution itself. The Ia
of 1898, be said, had received the APPROX
Of Washington and Of many Of the wise
II and purest patriots among the founders
: our republic, and be considered these m,
as moral, as virtuous, and Is consCientio
! as those noisy abolitiOnists who were %
2 trying to overthrow the institutions th'