Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1852-08-28
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stItuted authorities Of onr country with our
lives and fortunes. Long NAV
you continue to watch over the safety of the
community"
Signed by 134 names, and among them
Benjamin Pierce, Mr.. 0'Conor's beau ideal
"antecedent''
There we're four nays to the address
Messrs, Langdon, browne, Bartlett and Sam
born.
NATIONAL EATTvE1sM.
In the same year, Nov IA, 1885, COM
mittee was appointed by the Legislature to
petition Congress to alter the Constitution Of
the United States, respecting qualification for
Members of Legislature (CoDgress) of the Uni
ted States. That committee reported Dec.
| 26, 1923, recommending that none but natural
born citizens of the United States should be
eligible to the Vice. Presidency as well as the
Presidency, and recommending also to ,,ex-
tclude from a seat in either branch of Congress,
any person who shall not have bet n actually
naturalized at the time of making this amend
ment, and have been admitted citizens four
teen years at least at the time of such elec-
| Ition."
That piece of ultra Nativeism, which would
turn Gen. Shields and Mr. Soule out of our
present Senate, passed the New-Hampseire
Legislature, with Pierce's vote, and won for
him the admiration of the Democracy Of this
day and the endorsement of Charles OsCo-
nor; and that, too, was passed about the time
that Emmet, Sampson, OsConor fCharless
father'J and Mac Nevin were expected in this
country. Indeed. pretty much all the vindic-
tive kind of Eativeism and bigotry in our
country, had their origin among the leaders
and fathers of NewHampshiTe Loco Foco-
ism.
June s, 1899, the Legislature met at Con-
Icord-Mr Pierce again Member from Hills
borough. Governor Gilman's message again
denounced foreigners and appealed to native
citizens to defend Adams. He denounced
the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of
I179s and 1899, (recently endorsed by the
Baltimore Loco-Foco platform An address
Eechoing these sentiments was carried in the
Legislature-Be Beyamin Pierce voting for the
address.
ALIEN LAWS INDoRsED
June IA, 1899, series of resolutions IN ia
Dor of the Alien and iSedition la,Os were intro
tduced INTO the New-Hampshire Legislature.
One of them was in these words:
THAT if the Legislatureo New Hampshire,
for mere speculative purposes. were to ex-
press an opinion on the acts of ths General
Government, commonly called The Alien and
lSedition Bills, that opinion would necessarily
be that these acts Were constifut;ondks and IN
the present situation Of our country. highly ez-
pedisnE"
Passed: 1877 recorded for it. and among
them Mr.. O'Cornor's pet, Pierce.
JOHN ADAMS INpoRsED.
In June. 1927, Benjamin Pierce, as Gov
ernor of New Hampshire, sent in his message
, to the Legislature. We are told by the Lo-
cofoco presses that Franklin Pierce wrote his
fathers messages. We have already made
one extract from this message. I quote again
!, some sections extolling old John Adams,
whose Alien and Sedition laws were so popu.
lar in New Hampshire.
Benjamin Tor rather Franklin) Pierce, says
that old John Adams was one of the "most
consistent patriots and ablest men whose
names have graced the annals of any age,''
and that the memory of Adams "will contin-
, ue dear as our Freedom, and lasting as our
Republic;" that his "fsme, not acquired by a
single enterprise, but gained by the active
and ardent exertions of long life devoted to
the cause of liberty, will continue to increase
with the diffusions of liberal principles
PIERCE OPPOSED TO GEN. JACKSON
In 1929, Benjamin Pierce was again Gov
ernor, and Franklin Pierce was member of
the Legislature from Hillsborough. The faith.
, er and son had the lead in party matters in
the State, and long before that time and ev-
er since, managed things pretty much as they
, pleased. In 1924 and 1928, Gen. jackson
, was up for President, and we have it on the
authority of Isaac Hill, Locofoco Governor of
New Hampshire, that Franklin Pierce caused
his father to take sides against Jackson. AT
all events New Hamspire went at both cleo
tiuns against Gen. Jackson. l presume Frank
lin had very little trouble in bringing Ben
over, as he had originally been a"Federalist,"
and in favor of Alien and Sedition laws, Anti
Catholic tests and such New Hampshire Lo-
cofoco amusements as were instilled into Frank
in his youth.
PIERcE's FAMILY.
We are told that Pierce is of an Irish fam
lily. This is another falsehood In life of
Franklin Pierce, in the NeW York Herald of
June 9, and endorsed by Charles O'Conor in
Tammany Hallthe same evening, we are told
that Benjamin Pierce "was born at Chelms-
ford, town near Lowell, in the Common
wealth of Massachusetts, in 1857. He was
descended from a respectable Irish family,
who originally emigrated along with many
other Irish emigrants from Londonderry, in
the North of ireland, and settled in Newton
donderry, New Hampshire" The stupidity
of this falsehood may be seen at a glance,
when we remember that the Londonderry
settlement left ireland only in l7l6, which
was less than thirty years before Benjamin
Pierce was born, and his father was an old
lpasidant of Tbalnoe eford Jvhara No do~-