The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-10-20
An InfereStiHg Letter.
MAxcnEsrrR, IN H. Sept. q, 1852.

documents, or certificates, numerously signed
lad n'r nded 40 an answer to the letter in VIII CHI
|, IN CONJUNCTION with tew Catholics Of Con.
cord, addressed 10 MIR White, OF Milwaukee,
generating General Pierce from the charge cf
inactivity or diff renee in relation to the abro-
CATION test
| dean It duty to myself aud to the signers
Of that l. tier IN show how those counter state
! uIents ", re manufactured. Before ding so,
| must premise
lst This is my Eth year In Manchester,
Concord, &c. and during that time have n"v.
or, in any way, interfered in elections Yet
| ,t-ntively watched the movements of the poll
teal p.rt,rs n this State, and particularly when
| the c. nv ntion was in session. AS u Cathol
| 1 was Interested in At !enst cHe measure before
| tha. body Hence read and file the daily re-
port. Of its procas jings. From these it was
evident that Woodbury. and Pierce exsr,ed
| themselves s'reauously for The removal OF the
test
Whe, General Pierce was IN" < pccteaIy
| nominated as tn" candidate for one party, he was
At once acc used, By certain notorious partisan
nf being the principal if not the sole Of he
failure on the par. of tn, pe,ple to alb ,hsh he
| test. This accusation, so as'ountinG - honest
| men in this .cc'i"n Of the c.untrv, Who
kn.w Gene, al Piarcr had lahorsd z,'alonsty in
behal nr the Catholics, Id N" u wish ,h't some
means might b- adopted 70 disahn's the Catho-
| les nf the [ MON Of the false impression which
\ his mos, untrue charge was likely 10 create. /,
was tn ny t, me how Catholics voted; bur
was not willing that party hacks should be pr.
United with imp.nrv to trad. upon wha. they
| cal. the Catholic vate.
| 3. Yet seemed 70 NE that as the ca h lie
| s-ess through ut the country pr"mp'lr exposed
tt,is unworthy artiic,. f.r IN piping the vtH.
| at Catholics, all had b~ru don. that wa reqdir-
! ID and r the crcu.ns auc.s VT, to ha ss,n
| riSh,ucn' If al persons IN New Hampshire, who
NJ nn, totally blinded by party ties, In same
| charge was rem a'cd--f the western n1fk"',
>nprs., a. E W persons in his garter W ud hc
| 20. we'd y the story, un'r-s, pcrh"ps, such
~ rs,ns aro not only willing ta. determined 10
| BE- acce we'd.
| Mr. White. &c Mlsauk'e, wrote to .sene
friend ia New i!amp<llre that this repetition ri
the chare agains, & neral Pierce was indus'r-
"nsiy rirc ula,e,i, at the West 4 few Ca,hn-
hes in Conc 'rd, who WIRE supp SGD to know
| SOM TIN alb u: The matt r, were r"qhSted L.
>,e'e wha, thy knew. Accordingly they affx
| d hoir rancs t. TIE White bitter. A. this tim
| | knew n"ihns nfthc htt'r Bn il vas hr' nghi
/ {, me-, and | was requested To- certify That lh-
| mares apprnd, d ,n hat document were names
! Of Ga holes living IN Concord not only
| c ,mpll.t., but rs also knew that General Per
bad b, en- sh,urtiilv b"Ii, IN this matter,
! added my test.m ny IL theirs. II is true that |
do not fully agree, = ll'lcaily. with III" party
t VIII G. has non,n,t.d General Prrce, bur | RES
| pect the men. knew TINT he had a'ne all hat
! ,nar c ulI d., in our behalf, aud that hence h.
| was grossly calunna.sd | saw the vrtes of
j Cath j c< ", re- made int, stock in the v ! st nf
! al. narkr's-th political market an. apart
| from iit inc!i yna ion which Cath Inc would
naturally feel under these circumstances, i felt
! hat common gratitude required fron, us-thr
Catholic. If New lamp hirc--a clear rrcogni
ton of the fact that General Pierce had truly
and z a'ousy LIB red in our behalf, and 1t he fail
ed t, c,mnand he State il this matter, tht.
! fault was not his.
simple in itself, would rest here. N, question
would have been raised about it il General
| Pierce had not been nominated ; NJ question
| will be rails ii about il three months hence. Ii
! deems howevtr, that the document signed BY
/ me-, and the unanimous testimony of the Cathr
lie papers, we'll night destroyed what the Pilot
calls the trap for Catholic vo'es. 1t was resolv-
cd to mend thu trap so Mr. Cooney, Of Albany
! IN Irish Catholic believe, visited New Hamp
shi E. HIS object was 10 get upa counter do
cumrn', signed by Irish Ca htlics. Another
partisan, VIII m need not name, was also in.
| tpr-stcd in this matter. The result was that
from Manchester. Dover, and other towns. As
| Brownsnn in hi. number Cor the present month,
nofspra this very matter, says, the fools
! all dead vet, and a new brood is hached every
wear. J he persons who go. up these counter
certificates regard tn Catholic voters as FOOLS !
| suppose hal d termined to bestow attention
| upon the mat er bnt, upon reading the d"cu
| ments IN QUESTION, found not only that they
contained contradictory s'atements-a thing
which did not concern me-but that they were
intended as un impe achment Of the truth ftbe
| certificate signed by me- nay, the documents
| insinnate that our signatures were not all gcnu-
inc. OF course, my honor was here conccr-
ned.
which the signatures were obtained ,nManches
ter and Concord Few, | believe, of the sign
crs are voters. When | state that Manchester
is whig cty-ts,at it is supported by corpora
tons is alive with f:ctnres, tourdries, and ma
cEire estabiishmehts-l suppose tina, | STATE no
| new thing when sly that many Of the rat.
YES in mutiny Of this sort, act und> the spe-
crs If moral rrstraut
Whist indncement sufced to bring Mr. Coo
ney ali the way from Albany to help the Ca,ho
cs ofts S ate to SETTLE i'll ir own If irs, will
not stop to inquir" Perhans he is personally
n,-'rscd in the defea, of Pierce. Perhaps Mr
part h, with thus. kindly under ook a ,urnry
f"n New York to New Hamp-h'r- that W.
Ca holes might understand that We had been
badly treard by General Pierce-a III ~ thai
we not know h"f'.rr'' and which We cannot,
with all the pains Robinson has taken, under
stand now.
The coun'cr certificates were, believe, writ
ten by rro;ssian's. Perhaps Of them was
not lndep' Ed-nlv "f external evdsnca
there ~ raises and expressions in hem whirh
h"tray their frnt' slant origin. They may hav
been, and probably were, copied by Catholics
An Irish nante, as the Pilot says, WILL MN md
any prica-cer'alnlv any prom se--fr m poli-
clans until November next. Why Pr"tcstants
hsray such lender interest III our "eliara,
and why these Frotestants happen t. De inter
"sfed IN tn" coming election. is phtn,nen, N
whi IA d not profess TO exnlan.
The person who was employed in this place
to obtain signatures from the operatives is .
pars n Of whose equivocai Ca'holicity will not
now cay word Few Of the signers undsr- |
stood he import Of the paper to which they
= ihyed tn If names Snms ,ocre cGlled upon 10 ,
sign in tbs presence Of their employers. Two
persons in one shop--t"g give only one instance-
were morally forced to sign. Some were told
that the document was q petition for the estab-
lish nent Of the ten-hnur Syste,n o hers were
tod that tn, mills would be stopped, and they
n consequence thrown cut Of work, ii Pierce
wee elecfd. Some were told that it was =
''rt Of naturalization paper. 0 hers were told
hat it was documen: Iey-led a: English IN.
lnence. Snne we've told that j. vas petition
or equal rights O hers signadit simply. be-
ause they were asked to- d -, We med not
' nd Al 81 thus, NesJrs, Editors, for src