The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-08-03

Further Testimony from New Hampshire.
To show that the Concord and Manchester
Democrats are sustained in their version of
General PIERcE's speech at New Boston, we
append the comments Of their local contempt
rarles, as issued within the last few days.
The papers we now quote from are opponents
of General PIERCE, but they are not, therefore,
to be excluded from the witness-boX on ques-
ton that must be settled by facts, not by gen
eral assertions or vulga abuse.
The Concord IN. H. Statesman says
.'The speech of General Pierce, at New Boston.
in the month of January last, has recently been
published at Washington, and seems to have
created some stir there. B. F. Aver. esq, of Man
chester, and Messrs. Norris, Peaslce, and Hubbard,
members of Congress. have scverally, in certii-
Gates which appear in the Washington Republic,
endeavored to refute the presumption that the
port of General Pierce's speech is correct MIR.
Aver the only Of the above gentlemen
who was present in the meeting at New Boston,
and he denies that such language was uttered.
The speech was reported for the Manchester
Democrat by reporter specially engaged for the
purpose and there could at that time have been no
sufficient motive for giving any other than faith
present to speak himself, and could not therefore
be supposed to Re in favorable frame of mind for
king his attention upon what may have been said
by General Pierce, one who went there for the
sole purpose of reporting for a newspaper. There
Is no,r motive to allege that the speech was not
correctly reported, but there was then to in
duce a reporter to give any Other than faithful
version Of it,
The Manchester IN. H.) american and
Messenger enters somewhat more into detail
but with result equally adverse to General
PIERCE and his apologists.
1t remarks:
eve all recoect freshly and wildly the Atwood
split, and all its details how that reverend turn
coat wrote three letters which agreed in no par
ticular-how he danced the polka from New Bos.
ton TO Concord, and from Concord to Manchester
how he fell into the den of lions Tor asses) at the
Manchester House, and came out rolling his eyes
in holy hor ror at their wickedness-how be was
reported to have intimated to Frank Pierce that he
had a conscience, and how Frank, with q very
tartarean expletive. informed him that the ntima
ton was absurd, since he had belonged TO the
Democr attic party forty ycars--how Mr. Atwood
stumped the State. and grati6ed infinite mum.
Der Of elderly ladies by the suncitas in mode of hii
address-how the election left him nowhere and
| how he retired at last, like Cincinnntus, to hii
| plough.
1--WE remember, also, how Frank Pierce, in the
dead Of last winter with patrol Of sheriffs, edi
| tors, runners, and echoes, went over to New Bos
ton to bid for Freesoil votes. 1t n touch and
go meeting, and Frank performed with his usua
button hole tact. He patted the New Bosteneri
on their backs, and told them that the man who
built his fathers chimney lived at one time in New
Boston, and that therefore BIO had a paternnl re
| gard for them. Among the other incidents of the
meeting, a clergyman arose and addressed 10 hin
some interrogatories. In the course of his an
| swcrs, the General leaned marvcllously towards
the Freesolers. The speech was carefully notet
down at the time by most estimable and correc
individual present, and published in the Manches
ter Democrat in full, and in the Independent Demo
crai in part. II ia worthy of notice that not
single Democratic paper in the State at the tim,
denied The correctness of the Freesol portion o
the speech, and that some Of them published re
| ports in close agreement with it, Il should ais,
be remembered that the speech successful, ent
gained about f,ro hundred Freeso votes ne can b.
shown by the returns of the votes.
''Weil, five months elapsed, and Frank Picrc,
was nominated for the Presidency, as par ereeilene
the pro. slavery candidate; and all the South, from
the Potomac southwark, sent up shout. He wa
commended to them all right, and the cam
paign commenced furiously in all the Soutl
by the Democrats, they representing Pierce as b,
far safer than Scott on the Compromise. But sud
denly some of the southern papers discovered IT,
New Boston speech, and forthwith published il
The scales fell from southern eyes, and the vel
from northern demagogucs.