Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-08-28
PLAQUEMHNE:
Saturday, August 2s, 1852.
The New Boston Speech.

The reports of this speech, says the BuUe
tin, have produced an immense sensation al
over the country, besides frightening thousands
of usually staid and courteous Democrats from
their proprety. We apprehend that General
Pierce's letter of denial of which we have had
telegraphic account, will make confusion worse
confounded,' without Strengthening the matter
in any essential particular.
| The Manchester IN. H. Democrat has the
following in reference to the evidence brought
forward to vindicate Gen. Pierce. From it, we
should judge that some Of the signers were
already sick of their certificates. But, nous
uerrons. Here are the paragraphs:
Hunker Consternation--1he duplicity prac.
ticed at New Boston and Bradford, by General
| Pierce, in his speeches Of last winter, is now
! giving vast deal of trouble to his defenders
in this section, in order to satisfy the South of
his political honesty. They are placed in a
position where few minutes work in support
| of the truth compels them TO spend whole
days in devising expedients and sending out
runners and teams all about the country, in the
vain attempt to conceal the FACTS from The
South in regard to Pierce's statements at New
Boston. Last week we alluded to the extracr.
dinary effort made to get signers to state
ment denying the truth of the report we pub
lished on the 9Th of January. That document
has appeared. There is no need of our filling
our columns on this sub ject. The battle is to
be fought on other ground than in New Hamp-
shire--for here the community knew the facts
in the case months ago better than party rum
ners can now tell them. We will therefore only
say in regard to the signers of The statement
which has appeared in certain of the Hunker
papers, that some of them have since stated
that they gave their signatures to the statement
without reading it, and were deceived as to its
purport, while others signed who at the time
of the publication of our report admitted its
accuracy. In justice to that report, we will
add that Mr.. Johnson Gregg, of New Boston,
who last week procured the most of these sig
natures, stated himself last spring, to a well
known citizen of this State residing in Frank
lin, that General Pierce did cypress decided anti
slarerg sentiments in his Neso Boston speech--
much more than he expected to hear from him,
and that it had its effect osa the election in that
to,on Comment on such q man and such
document is unnecessary.
Backing Om--When it was last week as
certained by the so-caled Democratic leaders
of Elm street, that some of the most respect
able and intelligent citizens Of New Boston
had given their afidavits bearing testimony to
the accuracy Of our report of the speech of
Gen. Pierce, meeting of the faithful was sud-
denly called. "Something must be done."-
One or two of the more reckless were willing
to give their affidavits, but the majority deci-
ded that san affidavit was more responsible
matter than merely signing statement" and
that it required some caution before taking such
step. These wise suggestions were needed.