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The I.ecosoto presses are growing absolutely
rabid They feel that The people canaot p blind %
he fact II Coalition between the Free Sellers Of
the North and me Seeessionis,s Of the South
Pierre Sonle Of Louisiana. AM Senator Clemens
/ OF Alabama have been cheek By ioxI with John
Van Bafen, Senator Dlx, and 3. r. Halleli--and
The Uaisa eHsPapsr eiIes these meetings as evil
dence Of Democratic nnicS and karaacny.
The same presses are very Eiuch griered and pre-
tend toEAe ashamed that the Wing Journals should
sill kesp tefoHe ihe people The declarations q their
candidate as reported BY the Rev. Mr.. Foss. and
sustained by The aiiavss Of many respectable wit
nesscs. They say il proves there is no sense Of
shame yerilv, there is neither sense nor saamsin
their denying what Gen. Pierce himself has not
dared 10 deny. In his vague declaration that the
report OF Mr. Foss was a grvss misTepFesenia-
ton" he does not meet The true issue. He does
moi eondescend 10 inform The public rkat ke did sag
in regard to The Fugitive Slave Law-wheiher he
.lsalhess' or approves il. Nor does he say one
word ia contradiction Of the assertion impu'ed to
him elsewhere, /" that the men who would dissolve
the Union [lhit is Garrison, Wendall, Philips,
Ward Beecher s Col did not loathe siarery more
than he did"
Nor has Gen. Pierce On any Of his apolos lists had
the hardihooa 10 deny Inc utterance by him. in the
Senate OF the United States, in 1895, the following
| sentiment:
II have no hesitation in saving that consider
Slavery s0diai and paficaf erI and most sincerely
,cisi ii had nj ExiS FENCE ON THE FACE OF
| THEEARTHl'
Well might the General assert, after this, that
his sentiments in New Hampshire and al Wash
ington were Identical
No wonder his friends are provoked at evider-
ces like these. No wonder they indecenly
scurrilous in their 6enuEcialions Of Foss But lei
rs give them another dose.
MORE PROOF.
PHiLiP n LtrrLs, Of New Hampshire, thu:
makes oath concerning the speech delivered ly Mr.
PiEacE at Bradford, ia that State. Read and BE-
convinced
/, PLiip N Little, Of Sutton, in the county D
Merrimackl and State Of New Hampshire, depost
and say that | attended Political meeting al Brad
| ford January 23d, 1852, which addressed By
General franklin Pierce, who spoke at length OF
the subject Of negro slavery and The Fugitive SLAVE
law. lie represented slavery as having ever beer
| disturbing element in our Confederacy and in
stanced various historical facts to prove il. Ii,
repelled the charge that the Democracy ot New
Hampshire were disposed 10 favor III any RAY NJ
iaicresis Of SJnLkert 1slarcry, and asserted tn
contrary, that they were as much and as truly op
poseN ~ nNt ihsttutioH ~s any PDuteat parry ~ ~
SAFE. lie repeatedly expressed his aver ion 10 sla
very and tke Ehgitire Stare Lar In language o
great force and declared that his heart revoked a
he surrender Of fugitiyes under the provisions .
the law. The entire remarks of General Pierce q
this subject were Of a decided character, and wei
apied 10 prcmote tie unity Of the Democrats
party, by ptoclaiming the anti slavery sentiment
Of that party in general and Of himself in partieu
lar, and the aversion Of both 10 the Fugitive Slav
law The execution Of which, he and his party ae
quiesced I'M being 5necessarv TO the preservation
Of The Union. PHILIP n. LITTLE.
II Sworn ~ Augusta, 1852 before
ROBERT LANE,
, 1aStice of the Peace