The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-08-03
That SOeech In tho South,

The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Sentinel,
frequent encomiums from the Democratic press,
makes the following remarks on General
PIERcE's New Boston speech:
Heretofore we have abstained from the publ
cation of the reports of the speech Of General Pierce
at New Boston, New Hampshire, in January last,
contained in the Free Democrat and the Indepen-
dent Democrat, two Democratic Freesoil papers of
that State, because desired to eec what his
General Pierce's) friends would say in reply to
them, and because we desired to do the Brigadier
full and equal justice in the premises. The reply
of his friends has been received; and impartial
man ,ciH say that II is at all isfactory that IL
refutes the charge. General denials. in case of
this Sort will not do; they must be specific and to
the point In this particular, the tsstimonyef Cen
era Pierce's friends is l0mentably deficient. They
haue entirely failed to meet the issue, and haze not
specially denied but single fact. For the remain
ing chargcs, they prefer to rely upon general de-
nials, nd content themselves with denunciations
of the authors of the reports. And they seem to
hope to discredit the papers, simply because they
happen to be Freesoil organs. entirely forgetting
that two of the present endorsers for General Pierce
IN. Hubbard and Moses Norris) arc as rank Free
sellers as the editors of the journals they volunteer
to discredit
..Apart from these considerations, there is ano.
ther fact that goes far to convince us OF the truth
of the charges. There is no language charged to
have been used by General Pierce, in the New
Boston speech, at all incompatible with language
employed and used by him in his place in the
Senate of the United States Nor is it incompati.
bic with the language admitted by his friends to
have been used by him on the occasion, and re-
ported at the time by one Of his own organs which
gave sketch Of the speech. That report quotes
language quite rs strong against slavery as the
Freesoi organs have given him credit for, and also
shows that he advocated the carrying out of the
Compromise in good faith--a fact that we have
never controverted or doubted.
'Finaly we commend this whole subject to the
calm and dispassionate consideration of the Wings
OF Georgia, especially those who have intimated
intention to support General Pierce a sound :
or man than General Scott on the slavery question.
Think Of it, Think long and well before you cast
such a vote"
Another Georgia paper-the Warrington
Gasette-which had previously intimated a
purpose to support General PIERCE, reviews
the subject at length, after citing the testimo-
ny, pro and con, as far as it had been received
Observes
"Such ia the charge. and such the defence. The
latter, It will be perceived, far as the specific
allie ga tons are concerned, denies only single ex
precision attributed to General Pierce, viz that the
Fugitive Slave law is opposed to moral right
AS regards the balance Of the allegations, these
certificates stop with a general denunciation of
them as false, without denying them specifically
or giving what General Pierce really did say. So
far as the whole denial is concerned, it is merely
word against word and can be satisfactory only
upon the superstition that these Frecsoil editors
cannot tell the TRUTH II is the source of the charge
upon which they chiefly rely to prove its fasity.
"Several questions here present themselves with
great force. These certificates show that the al.
| legged error in the newspaper reports OF General
Pierce's speech had been noticed and commented
upon at the time of their publication. II false,
why they not corrected at the time by General
Pierce or bis friends? Why was so important a
matter, embracing his opinions upon question OF
vital moment to the country, allowed 10 go uncon-
tradicted and even unnoticed up to the present
day. These reports. alleged rs false, were capital
for General Pierce in New Hampshire. Why were
they allowed to remain such until they came to
the knowl ledge of the South, and he become 90
| deeply interested in their rcfutation? Why does
| not General Pierce come out over his own sigma.
ture and deny these false statements, and give us
what he did say? II would not be beneath the
| dignity Of his position upon question in which
! half the Union holds so deep stake.
1--WE hope the South will look well to her inter
ests and her safety in the coming election. The
| times demand OF her vigilance Of her rights, and
| the closest scrutiny Of the men TO whom she en-.
| trusts her fortunes We intend to be just, but
shall be insensibe to all appeals for compromise
on this question. The man who gets vote
must be above suspicion We repeat, are sin.
cerely DESTROYS that General Pierce may relieve
himsef satisfactorily to the whole country from
this having pandered to spirit of vile
and disorganizing fannticism. Knowing nothing
of his talents and craftsmanship, we have admired
the beautiful consistency and unfinching justice
| that have marked his entire public career upon oil
questions involving the domestic institutions of the
South; and we should feel panied that even one