New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-09
WIN. E. R0BINs0NS SPEECH
on ygw-HANPsHIRE DEMOCRACY AND CATH
0LIC EMANCIPATION.

speech made by George d. Danas ~ 'N0 .s,d:
PHILADELPHIA June T. So In which thar aar.a ~.
"fhe persion sssnst f ,s the Constitution Of New
HnSi,s il weak invention OF eS C.,bocs from
said It was re- IN the Legislature OF becSmins Governor,
nsYsed on the Constitution o. ina p; bsS oh
also true Of laws providing for the holding OF two
s,.te Conven TO amend that SonuI'on AZ o' ~
ctae Constitution submitted 10 the vote OF
espor1s bnt two third vote being requisite, II was do
s s.sS ~ combination OF Wings and Aboon's"
M Robinson also quoted from the speech of Charles
OCopor. of this City, made In Tsmmany Hall, on the
evening of June 9, and published In The TTata-Te'~
of July g. In which he said that Franklin Pierce comes
recommended
"By all his antecedens and all his connections he is the
and bis political associates brought forcard amendment
sbO,hng this 1.-THE AntiCsthohc unlus-ths odious ds
tipction BY means Of his Jealous advocacy, this
vocatsa il AT the polls - When religious liberty
needed champion, he was found In Frankhn rIeice
Mr.. R. also referred to the assertion Of Mr. oConor,
that hi. latest Information was from Franklin Pierce
who expressed strong hope that Catholic emancipation
had been or would be carried In NewHsmpshire, AMI
sa,d that these assertions of Mesrs Dallas and Conor
we're now received throughout the country and unior
tnstelv some Wing papers, deceived by the respecta
b,,v Of the authority had Joined In receiving them as
acknowledged public opinion though there was NOT one
word of truth In either assertion.
EIGHT PROPOSITIONS.
ON the contrary Mr. Robinson laid downt the following
rononons ard so earnest he In challenging an In
vesigstou that he announced that he would deposit IN
tbe hands of Simeon Draper hundred dollars 70 DO
so,eted and given up 10 any that would prove that
In any one of these propositions ne nstated the facts
The decision 10 be left 10 Robert Emmett
l. Franklin Pierce did not speaS al all In favor OF
Catholic Emancipation during the whole Tune tue Catn'
kolc~ shaN NJ
D He had nothing TO do with bringing for ward the
subject The resolution aboshing the test was drawn
up BY Mr. Parker of Nashua, Wig, and was brought
forward" by Mr. Parker Nov. Is when was olscus'eo
In Convention.
3 II was known throughout New. Hampshire that
Catholic Emancipation finally defeated by an over
whelming vote some eight or ten weeks before BIZ
O'Copor spoke in Tammany Hall
A. When Religious Liberty needed champion tien.
Pierce was found-wantng. Though after Catnohc
Emancipation had been carredin Convention he founo
time while making a speech on the Property Qualih'
Hon 10 excuse and apologize for the test bgotry by say
Inc Il was dead letter and blank, which was simply
stating that Catholics would perure themselves 70 se'
into Office by swearing 70 support Cohsuuuoh "nicn
That 40 far from all bis antecedents" being right,
his father ain Pierce, voted to put the anti Caho
lie clause into the Con shtuion and voted for the Allen
and Sednon Laws of old John Adams
G. That 80 far from Catholic Enamel patton falling
only for want of twothrds vote, 1t had not onesixth
of the votes cast throughout the State at the same eec
zion for Governor and did not come near simple ma
jority of the small vote cast on this question
T. That In place Of there being any high confidence
an New Hampsbire of Catholic Emancipation being car
RED II general opinion Is, that unless we draw line
around New Hampshire, saying, that while the plague
spoti her. and the ship unPuhed no man, capt Avn
nor crew shall land and thus, by the defeat OF General
Pierce, bring his bigotted party to the senses inc
Catholics In that State stand chance CeAeng Eman'
eipated for half century
Pierce, was red hot enemy of the Catholics and a
supporter of the Alien and Sedtion acts, and that
Franklin Pierce, the young chicken, SO learned 70
follow the old one that he raised not voice In
favor of aboi.hng bis fathers beory, during the whole
time the subject was under discussion In Convention
of which he was leading member and President .
Mr. Robinson referred 10 the fact that In the Locofo
90 Baltimore Convention there some thirteen can
didstes found with marks Of popular favor upon them
Two.THIRDs DEMOCRACY.
A dog In hydropboba could not have msneste'
rage at the sight of water than these ari,tocratl
Baltimore Delegates exhibited toward everything OF
which wss the mark Of popular favor Nor did th
'phoba get of III every vesuge OF popular favor W..
removed from their sight, and buried beneath the arts
eocrsto device OF a two thirds rule And then a shout
went up that anybody bad but thar evsrs body
had been defeated and that eyerbodys fsyohte wa
dead.
Mr. Robinson dsclsmed any wish to use epithess but
he knew that the whole political capital of the Fierce
party was bogus and without intending TO apply the
ephet to any one, when he found falsehood forg
cry he would call So II he did not expose ialsshOod
and forgery, he would be alse 10 hs native and adopted
Countries and aso 10 Inc cause OF true republic
He had sboied through ~ years of his life in this
Try, with all the strength which God had given him, 10
tread down all sorts OF bigoty, political and religious
and he would continue In the same path 10 despite Of
oil the abuse and misrepresentation which be had al
ready met and would yet have to from some
uppncped presses to which he referred but which he
said hescOrned-as conscious rectude well afford
TO scorDthe rusted shafts of calumny falling from I'm
peneuable shield
He referred to the forgery and falsehood with which
nsturaized citizens were appealed 10 against Harrison
md Tayl NH haa cd M ha I'll.
history will yet prove the charges against Gen Scou
false He pictured the blood hound venom with which
these same pack of sanderers hunted Henry Clay into
q grave which even their superhuman matguty could
not rob of its uanscendent glory, and around which
these blood hounds, changed Into crocodies
pretend TO shed oceans OF the death Of who
while living they tried make naturslized citizens be
Heve worthy OF dogs burial In place OF posthumu
honors To what lengths must our patience be abused
a. naturazed cizensl How long shall we be insulteC
by being put TO draw the water with which TO drown
or hew the wood with which to CONSUME the altar
reared In American hearts to Clay and a Scot
to raise In their stead affairs to the idOla of Poll
and Piercei How long will IL be expected that we
shall palsy break the that humblei the pride o.
England 10 raise and sustain the which refused tC
muscle TO remove the disgrace which the elder
Pierce Rad fastened the necks OF all but sect il
New HampsbIel
One great fasehood of this Campaign Is saving thai
Franklin Pierce advocated Csthoic Emancipation wher
II was before the late New Hampshire Convention Toe
great forgery Of the Campaign is the pretended letter
Of Gen. Scott 70 George w. Reed, on Natiyism.
NEw-HAMPSHIRE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY
And here Mr.. X gave sketch of the constitutional
History of New Hampshire He said:
Tue dfst Constitution was formed 10 Exeter In mo
and was called the Temporary Constitution read
In manuscript and found Ia IL no anti Catholic test
30 tha' We had no tigoTy I'll after he Reooidi0a This
Temporary Constitution continued for eight years
and six months
In l77s, Convention called 10 meet at Concord
and submitted the form of Constitute ~ the people
IN l779, and thst rejected. Another was formed
and submitted in ISL, and that also re-. cted
Another formed in l7s2, aud that too rejected
A fourth form agreed upon, aud this accepted
by . two-thirds vote. Ii was known the New Con-
stitutiop."
This continued In force till 1872, when another Con
sruton was adopted hicb sill continues In force, sod
h the or @ TO amend which the tempt was made In
lS50-S2 and this is called "The Revised COnsututon.'
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