The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-08-06
THE NEW BOSTON SPEECH.

THE NEW BOSTON SPEECH.
The Publication of "the New Boston speech"
appears to have created considerable alarm
and confusion in the democratic camp, and
the way they twist and squirm under the as
founding developments is interesting to any
one who has heard their denunciatiOns of
Gen. Scott. For six months they had been
charging Gen. Scott with hostility to the
Compromise measures, and by continued
and systematic course of Misrepresentation
actually made some good, supplemented
souls believe it. and they were chuckling
in great glee over their success. awe have
got the Wings good" was the exultant cry.
But since the publication of the "New Bos-
ton Speech" mighty change has come over
them, and they know not what to do, nor
which way to turn to escape from the disa-
greeable dilemma in which they have been
placed by this exposition of the sentiments
of their candidate. Itistrue, they deny Gen.
Pierce ever uttered the language attributed to
him, and say that the whole statement was
concocted by his enemies to injure him.
The speech was made last January-no one
denies that The report of it which has given
such mortal offence to democracy, was pub
lished Immediately after its delivery in two
Free Soil Democratic prints, printed and pub
lshed in Mr.. Pierce's own neighborheod. and
was not contradicted at the time--no one
denies these facts. But we - told that the
statement is false-that these &o Free Soil
Democratic prints, printed and, published in
Mr.. Pierce's own neighborhood, were always
his bitter enemies, and in order to iyure
him as much as possible in the estimation of
their readers, they sent reporters to the
meeting to take down his speech, and repre-
scented him as uttering just suchsentiments in
regard to slavery as they themselves entertain
ed and advocated. Every one will admit that
this is novel way to injure ones enemies.
And yet it is all that has yet been paraded to
disprove the genuineness of the reports of
Gen. Perce's New Boston Speech, delivered
last January, taken down at the time, and
published Immediately in two Free Soil De-
mocratic prints, printed in his own neighbour
hood, and which were never contradicted until
after he was nominated for the Presidency by
the Convention that set aside Gen. Cass and
other prominent aspirants who had furnished
evidence of their soundness upon
the Compromise. 1t may be that Gen. Pierce
is right upon the slavery question, and when
the fact IS made to appear we shall not fail
to spread it before our readers, as VIC would
not Intentionally misrepresent him to them
for any consideration whatever. But until
some better evidence than any that we have
seen is furnished, we must be allowed to re-
gard him as standing exactly where his New
Boston speech places him.
Since the above was in type, we have
found the following certificate, from the Rev.
Mr.. Foss, in one of our exchanges, which
removes all doubt as to the correctness of
the report of Mr.. Pierce's Newv Boston
Speech:
l, Andrew T. Foss of Manchester, in the
county of Hillsborough, and state of New
Hampshire, depose and say, that on the. Cd
day of January, 1852, attended a political
meeting at New Boston, in said county, which
was addressed by General Franklin Pierce;
that went there for the purpose of reporting
the speakers, and that the report of the speech
of General Pierce, wherein he declares that
he "loathed the Fugitive Slave law, &C."
was furnished by me to the editor of the
Manchester Democrat; that the same was
written out by me on the evening after the
meeting from notes taken on the spot and
that the facts therein stated as published in
said Manchester Democrat, and also in the
Independent Democrat are true. distinctly
recoilect that General Pierce said, among
other things, that he had n ''most revolving
feeling at the giving up of slave;" that he
'.loathed the Fugitive Slave law" and that the
same "was opposed to humanity and moial
right" A. L. FUSS.
STATE OF New HAMPSHIRE,
Merrimack S., July %, 1859. :,
PERSONALLY appeared hnoIe" l. "s', an"
made solemn oath that the above affidavit, by
him subscribed, is true. Before me.
JACOB S. HARVEY, ]. P.
OF Mr.. Foss, the Washington Republic
remarks: "This gentleman, VIC understand, is
q preacher of the Baptist persuasion, man of
good character and unimpeached veracity."
ICY Henry B. Stanton, says the N. York
Star, long known as n prominent abolition
lecturer, and more recently as New York
has come out like John Van
Buren,, In favor of the nomination of Pierce
for President.
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