The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-07-14
The First Wing Abolition and Seward Plot
Exposed and Exploded.


The friends OF General Scott have resolved upon bold
and hazardous which. no matter from what
point Of view is regarded calculated to awaken the
posed that of ordinary intelligence would hesitate
before esorng to such perous expeden but the case
Of the friends of Scott is itself in most perous and ex-
traordinary position Something be done TO save it
Some sweeping dsai be adven.ured and ,hoagh
the risk they is they hope escape the
quences Of their pogate disregard of all honor and Of
truth by the abandoned recklessness OF their movements
more dishonoring attitude for grea, party TO occupy
could moi possibly be conceived 1t is the latest and bold
exhibition of those baleul influences which surround
General Scott, and which, carried into an administration
OF the federal government, visit the most fatal
consequences upon the interests OF the country Indeed
from these debasing tactics what sort of an
administration Gen. Scott would have if be were elected
President The Republic has embarked in this bad bust
ness in labor OF love- and the example will doubtless
followed by the whole chorus OF the wing press bat
what work il is TO expect honorable men to advocate
and intelligent citizens 10 approve
The Republic copies yesterday, from two abolition
papers in New Hampshire, certain letters purpor,ing to
have been printed January last containing extracts
from speech OF Gen Pierce, in which he is charged
with having taken grosnd against The principles OF the
fugitive. slave law The country will observe that the
witnesses 10 this shameless charge are abohonsts of
the vilest s,amp-nen whose lives have been devoted
10 the OF disunion-men who have felt The
powerful aniagonism against their helsh designs of
such patriots as franklin Pierce, and who now, as in
January last balei and beaten, cowed and overhrown
invent the most reckless alsehoods against the man
add the who have crushed their base and unholy
combinations against the constitution OF the United
States The who conduct the shameless sheets upon
which the Republic relies are in the last degree unwbor
thy and vile; their viupeations OF Pierce are such as
they have poured out upon all who have espoused
the OF the Union and their ueverent ISLANDERS
strike not only at the patriotic living but also at the
lusirous dead. They are the worst ackalls of
the party OF jackalls, and belong to those outlawed
knaves who, in The press and from the rostrum, have
proclaimed Washington dealer in human flesh. Jefer
liar, and the constitution "a league with the devl'
and " bond with hell" We speak on the authority Of
the most respectable public OF New Hampshire when
say that the character for truth and veracy OF the
journals cited by the Republic is iafamous.
These the witnesses OF the Republic, the chosen
organ OF General Scott These are The witnesses who
to convince the South that General Pierce is false to
that fealiy TO the constitution which has been his day
star-the passion OF his whole political exisenee-the
very cornerstone of his political faith. For shame -
for shame II this ss-reuting alsehood does not stag
ger those who retail it, the character OF its dsboooed
and reasonable authors should induce them to cast IL
from them II there pestence in the touch That il
fasealse in the genera-alse in the deai-false in
every aspect in which il be dscussedalse from the
beginning TO the endngwe have the authority OF those
who know General Pierce personally for saying who
knew OF the speech here alluded to, and who declare
tina, no such language that attributed to him ever
fell from his lips at any time, on any occasion, from his
fret entrance into public life down TO this bopr But
this is not all The charge is that General Pierce de-
nounced the ugitve-slave law in Terms o satisfy the
aboll,onists' the very time when he was laborng TO
throw overheard Mr.. Atwood for breach OF party
faith pledged by the democratic party Of New Hamp-
shire 10 The maintenance of the Compromise. These
witnesses themselves testify that in the same speech in
which they falsely charge General Pierce as denouncing
the fugitive law he spoke Of the passage and Mamie
nance OF the compromise as essential 10 The
safety of the Union. 10 his letter Of acceptance Gen
eral Pierce tells the country. over his own signature
That there is emo act word OF his life" 10 opposition
Ito the declaration Of the democratic resolutions that The