The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-06-24
The Sectional Canvasa Co..


wing party has already opened its batteries
upon franklin Pierce.
The Boston Atlas raves as follows:
"The proceedings Of the convention from
first to last have been most sectional and an
ti-national in character. Ithasbeen southern,
and nothing but southern The great North,
with its three-ffth Of the population and
representative and electoral strength, has
been treated as of no account. An ultra
southern spirit has perraded the convention.
Its nomination is anything but national, and,
save only in name, anything but democratic
The platform they have finally adopted and
promulgated is in its political latitude many
degrees south Of anything the democracy, as
they falsely call themselves, have yet ven
tured to go.
Cali thisRant Of nationality, and all this
subserviency to sectarianism, stands out most
prominently in all they have said and DONE
owe see it in their nomination and en-
dorsement of Franklin Pierce, whose highest,
if not only, recommendation appears to have
been his complete and abject devotion to the
demands Of the South. No man has ever
earned for himself more deservedly theTepu-
tatiOn of most Thoroughbred dough-face.
Because John p. Hale had themanHness to
refuse to assent to the annexation of Texas,
he was villifed, denounced, and ostracized at
the high behest of Franklin Pierce. The
democratic journals that had dared to take
similar grounds, and denounce the whole
scheme in all its blackness, were driven, by
his management, to eat their own words, and
to fall into the support of that which they
had so vehemently condemned. More re-
Gently, his connexion with the persecution
of Mr.. Atwood, the nominee of his own par
ty, and his final prescription, for the helm
Gus offence of not regarding the fugitive
slave law as the perfection of human wisdom,
are we'll known. These, and these only,
are the heroic achievements which so strong
ly recommended Franklin Pierce to the sup
port of the North Carolina, Mississippi, and
Georgia nullifers, and which gave him their
early support; and all this is plainly enough
avowed by them in the alleged ground of their
adhesion and support"
Our readers will at once recognise in the
above language the roar of a fanaticism
which prefers the predominance of wing alb
Olitionism to peace or the perpetuity of the
Union. They will see in it also a glorious
testimony to that firm and courageous nation
atty of spirit which is at this moment the
animating spirit Of the united democracy,
and which, more than any other single char
acteristic, commends Franklin Pierce to the
democratic party as the man for the times.
He is a man who makes no terms with aboli-
tionists. His whole history shows it, on the
showing Of his.wOrst enemies He goes in
for peace between the sections-for an end
of anti-slavery agitation. He stands on the
platform of sectional tranquility as the re-
suit of an observance of the rights of every
section as secured by the constitution and
the laws to enforce its provisions.
On just this ground the organ of the
wings Of New England fercely denounces
him. It's charge against him is, that if he
be elected the game of anti-slavery agitation
is all up. Spread this charge far and wide
-makeit known to the people that it is the
war-cry of fanaticism against Franklin Pierce,
and his election would be sure even if the
country were not, as it is, heartily sick of
the errors of wing policy and the inefRciency
and profigacy of whig administration!
But the chief value of this testimony of
the Atlas and its kindred prints is the light
which it throws on the central principle and
animating impulse of the whig organization
1t is too plain to be denied that the Atlas is
writing to the abolitionists and for them
Its whole appeals to anti-slavery fanaticism.
There can no longer be doubt that the par
ty for which the leading whig journal of
New England speaks has resolved to stake
its existence on the desperate hazard of a
policy which, if placed in power, must pledge
this government to a civil war upon the
South, none the less formidable or danger
Gus because carried on in the forms of legis-
latiOn-a policy which must rally round the
wing banner every element of sectional rage
"a policy which the democratic party and
its President must confront and quell, if, in
the DEGREES of Providence, it be ordained
that We are long to remain united people.
Washington Union