Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-09-23

papers-Well known Tor long and tried SER
vices distinguished for talents-eminent
for efficient advocacy OF great party meas
ures, and endeared to the party by the pres
tige Of their names-was Cass and Buchanan,
and Marcy, and Houston and Douglas.
But Franklin Pierce was not on the list of
nominations by the people. He was nomi-
mated, not as the choice of convention, but as
negative candidate, at the eleventh hour,
as one, if in whose tduor, nothing could be
said-nothing could be said against him by
the friends of Cass, Douglas & Co., and no
party opposition could be arrayed against
him.
How different was the nomination Of Gen.
Scott? He was one of the three only cam
didates before the convention-known and
distinguished. Twice before had his friends
brought forward his name in the Wing Con-
vention, strongly supported, and twice had
he, Gen. Scott, voluntarily withdrawn his
name in favor of our great Henry Clay.
General Pierce was nominated on the for
ty-ninth ballot, over his distinguished COM
petitors. by the operation of that anti-Demo-
cratic rule, the ''two third rule" and by a
convention that professed the principle that
the majority should rule.
Gen. Scott came in on the first ballot with
13l votes, lacking only % votes of the nom
ination; while Gen. Pierce was not heard
of until the 35th ballot-so much for the
Democracy of the Locofoco party. How
stands Gen. Pierce on the great questions
of vital Importance to the people Of the
West?
He served eight years in the House of
Representatives and two years in the L.
States Senate-and his votes and speeches
all bear witness to his opposition to the
growth of the West.
June 2Sth, 1884, he voted against the
River and Harbor Bill, which contained an
appropriation of $$50,O00, for the improve
ment of the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri
rivers; which bill was nevertheless approx
ed by General Jackson, and became a law.
He voted against the act of March Sd,
1885, containing an appropriation of $780,
600 for the same rivers, which was also
) signed by Jackson and became law.
He voted against the act of July I'd, 1886,
appropriating $l20O0O in the aggregate, to
: the Improvement of the Ohio, Mississippi
and Missouri. 1t was signed by Jackson
and became law.
March Sd, 1897, he voted against the act
appropriating 1898, 900, in all, to the Ohio,
Mississippi and Missouri--and $50, 900 for
the pier at St. Louis. Yet Gen. Jackson
signed this bill.
In the United States Senate, July 7h,
1888, he voted against the act appropriating
$4,000 TO the above named rivers. Yet
the bill was passed and was signed by M.
Van Buren.
e What saith he upon the tariff? On the
llth of June, 1876, he presented resou-
= ton 10 the Locofoco Convention, denouncing
i the tariff of 1912, as unequal and unjust.
: Search the records OF Congress, and you
will find that General Pierce has ever been
the bitter and constant enemy Of Western
:, Improvements. He went further than Gen
l Jackson-further than Martin Van Buren,
y TO strike blow at the progress of the west
. Citizens ofMissouri, what say you to Gen
Franklin Pierce as fit man to sit in the
Presidential chair? You whose lives are
= endangered by the snags and sandbars of our
> rivers; you whose property has gone down
: beneath the flood; you who behold the pro-
duce of your labor rendered valueless for
: want of the means of transportation; will
you vote for him, who has ever turned q
deaf ear to your appeals, to your wants, tc
c your demands for the just protection, the
: fostering care Of Government?
e Why need we record Franklin Pierce S
n opposition to the Military Academy at West
Peint, 10 which the army is indebted for
some of its noblest soldiers? His opposition
:. to the bill for the relief of the widow and
g family of the late lamented President Har-
, ,;- IL, Tho I i.bt Io,,e,
!, Bill of June 30th, 1884? His vote against
if granting land to the State of Michigan for
o the construction of canal round the Falls
of St. Marie? His vote against a bill 10
e grant q bounty in land TO the militia rangers
: who defended the frontier in the war of u?
i They are all recorded in the archives of
e CONGRESS-.
: What says Missouri to this?
o But some of our opponents may admire
e Mr.. Pierce's military career. We have no
n desire to disparage Mr.. Pierce in this res
a pect Ifhe won laurels in Mexico, we will
: not seek to pluck them from his brow. The
c record proves, however brave he may have
c been-he never achieUed the opportunity OF
e getting into the fight, save at the National
# Bridge, where he put to flight some five
S five hundred Americans.
: Misfortune or accident ever prevented
# him from attaining military renown--and
S such accidents do not generally bar the prog
: ress of great men.
S He has been charged and his friends
# have never been able to refute the charge
of opposing the attempt TO wipe from the
v Constitution of New Hampshire, that clause
5 excluding Catholics from holding office in
e that State. New Hampshire is thorough
If Locofoco State, giving that party majority
= approaching 10000.
= How is it then, if General Pierce be The
= champion of equal rights that he is claimed
r to be, that in State where he is the avowed
IS leader of his party-where his voice is SAID
e to be omnipotent, and where he has maior
II ity of 10000 at his command-how is il
e that this foul stain unon the Constitution NJ