Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-08-21
New York Herald and Gen. Pierce.


New York Herald and Gen. Pierce.
Several of our wing readers have requested tc
repubsh the following editorial from the New Yorl
Herald. We do so with pleasure. 1t is a source o.
graduation with us to be able to confer favor oul
friends the wings because we feel that if ever party
needs consolation, they do and If they can draw any
hope from the qualified admissions the Herald, it is
not in our nature to deny it them. Benefits Herald
has reputation, and such reputation as no paper in
this Union possesses 1t pretends to neutrality in all
matters political, and yet its neutrality is but blind
from behind which the assassin hand strikes To-day
it lauds and praises beyond all reach of truth and JUS
tice some measure of an administration, and the day
following it will charge the administration and the
who conduct it with fraud and pecuation. So with
every other matter. Like the Spanish guerrilla it is
armed against the world and its motto is to ve no
matter how, off fwhom. 1t is great prophet too
1t makes all manner of statements and guesses about
every conceivable subject and if it hits right in any in
stance it proclams itsefa shrewd gusser and per-
feet prophet As instance of its sagacity, it an
nounced after the nomination of Pierce by the Demo-
cratic convention that had stated he would be the
nominee sometime last winter. But the joke was, il
also said the thing of Cass, Buchanan, Douglass
Butler and dozen Others and happened in guess
ing through the catalogue, hit Perce and of course
it announced its shrewdness to the world.
Bennett is a swift witness for the party that pays
best, and is not worthy of credit either way
We have no disposition to defend Gen. Pierce and
the New Boston speech. We cannot believe that he
has gtUen the Lie to his whole political record in any,
thing he may have said at New Boston. His history
his consistency the occasion which drew him out at
the time and his opposition to Atwood all show that
he yielded nothing to aboltonism and that he defend
ed the constitutionaty of the Fugitive Slave Law in
the face of the widest fnatcism. 1t is not for us to
defend such man man as the Herald says, who
presents as "cean record tie s3aUery question:
that fanny party man in the Union, North or South "
Let the hyenas of the press hunt him downlet them
propagate the ISLANDERS against hm-et them spread
their lies before the peope-et them aid the aboli-
uonists in killing off Pierce. 1t is all right Didn't
the same men see Webster and Fillmore killed off in
National convention, and for what For defending
the Fugitive Slave Law. Don't we see these same
men defending that convention and its caudidate-the
man forced on the party by the abolitionsts 1t is
but natural them that they should assal Piercehat
they should attempt to destroy him. also every man
at the North who has or is standing out before
the world as defender of that law Kill off vour
true Northern friends, and make way for your Stewards
and Johnsons. Give the South and her slave nstitu-
tons over into their handsthe whg party is now ur-
der their control, and the day is distant all our
Northern friends are to be emascuated at the South
when we shall be but the trophy the car of abo
tionsm sold to them by traitors to her cause under
the deceptive cry of party! party !! party y!
/ Why, the very men relied on to prove Pierce I'M
sound, the iercest fanatics in New Hampshire If
he is so violent against the Fugitive slave law, how
comes it that the fanatics so furious against him
opposed that law how happens it that he oppos-
ed John Atwood, the candidate who announced his on
position to that law. But we will not argue this mat
teri is too base, much mixed with the food that
demagogues live on, for to attempt to refute
lit. Only one word more. The Rev. Mr. Foss. the
reporter and certfer of the New Boston speech is said
to have spent years at Columbus Georgia where
he has left several children by negro woman. A
writer in the Richmond Enquirer, propogates the fol-
lowing Whether this is true or not we cannot saw
but that he is violent abolitionist is true.
To the Editor: Some twelve or fifteen wears
since, man by the name of ''Foss,'' was con-
victed and sent to the Penitentiary four wears for
stealing horseS-but, for good behavior. he was
pardoned out, fore the expiration of his SEN
tence; he then went round lecturing on tcmper-
ance, and afterwards turned preacher The wri
ter of this has heard him hold forth in both ca
pacties. have made inquiries of the only gen-
tleman that | knew in this city, Ga whig.1 well
acquainted in New Hampshire, if this is not the
same "Foss" that is now the rank aboltionist
and vlllalnous libeler of Franklin Pierce, He
was unable to inform me-but remarked, that he
"knew enough of the Foss family to demand 9TH
er testimony for the truth of anything FoSs
should say" Will you please ask the New Hanon-
shire papers, if this ''swift affidavit maker ,, Is
not the same horse stealing Foss, and much
oblige, crpIos,rr
Richmond Er0gpiger