The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-07-29
rrnm lhn Wlshinrton RepubIIe

The Democratic CQndldate Endorsed Dg
the EngIish Press as Descended from
NobiIity---Their Confidence in Him.
Their Hatred of WindfieId Scott
To TIE Editor Qfthe RepubIie: ---
SrR:---A friend in London has sent me
copy of the London Leader, dated 26th June
and from an editorial article which it con-
tains | make the following significant ex-
tracts: o. .n-|r -.a-.--i .- .....s
"FranElin Pierce is a hneal descendant Of
our OacR family Of Psrcys; the PercSS of North
ttmJeraad, ohOsr place IN The State is ROlo Occu-
pied by the HOus of SmithS0n.
"From the incidents AMI traits which We
have so rapidly sketcbed, the character OF
the Democratic Candidate can readily De
collected. We should have been wen
pleased to have seen Judge Douglas chosen
althOwgh he is said TO hGUe bias against our
country; for he is too hearty and 'lntellgent
"a man to take any course detrimental 10 ms
own. We are without information as to me
Uieps of General Pierce on The subject Of coop
era'iOa toih England; but pe cannon say Mat
,ce feel any dpprehensiOas on the Po.nf' ana zoe
SIaH alodit The final election not ioathoat snare
in hecon6dence Of many American friends laGt
ii tDM result tccu."
10 the casual observer these "first-rate
notices. from the London Times, the mon
ster organ fthe English moneyed aristocra-
CIV. and the less pretending Leader, may not
anpear of much account; but when consid-
cred in connexion with the interference of
Sir Henry Bulwer with the American Con-
press, and his declaration that any increase
in the protection afforded to American labor
"would produce very disagreeable state of
feeling in England,"w we can readily see why
Mr.. Pierce, being " descendant oftheir own
house of Percys," should be endorsed in the
old country with such "perfect gush Of en-
thusiasm. What can be more significant
than the declaration that they fear Mr.. Doug
las is biased against English interests, but
that they have "no apprehensions" as regards
Mr.. Pierce! Who told the English aristocra-
cy that Judge Douglas was intensely Amer
lean in his feelings, and that Mr.. Pierce
would occasion them "uo apprehensions" on
that point! Did they learn it from his votes
and speeches against the improvement of
American rivers and harbors! or did R. j..
Walker, (Mr Polk's secretary of the Treas
ury,) who has been. many months in England,
assure them that Mr.. Pierce would be care
full of English interests! And are we to un-
derstand that the money OF English lords and
manufacturing millionaires is to be sen' over
here to help the Democracy, in fostering Eng
Iish interests by depressing American ones,
and helping party into power which will
"co-oPERATE" with England in a Kossuth
warl 1t looks very like it. The late emphat-
ic endorsement of the Democratic party
by Kossuth, and his arrogant attempt at
dragooning the German population into vot-
ing as body for Pierce, taken in connexion
with that part of the Democratic platform
which endorses Intervention, may well shake
the fath and invite the scrutiny of Ameri-
cans.
Will the South rush madly into this
scheme Of foreign war, when the very men
who are to be liberated avow in advance
their determination to assist the slave pop
ulation of this country in an armed and
bloody insurrection against their peaceful
and lawful masters! Will the Irish popu-
lation of this country-the brave country
men of Montgomery and Sullivan-cOunte-
nance party so destitute of principle, and
reckless of consequences, as to employ such
means to obtain the Daltry spoils of office
In the name of Heaven, have they not suf-
fered wrong and oppression enough at the
hands of the English nobility, the land-own-
crs and absentees, the Percys, Smithsons,
Russells, and Palmerstons!
That the English press abuse Gen. Scott
mot in the least surprising. On the 9th
of July, 1913, with only 1900 raw Ameri-
cans, and himself little past boyhood, he
met OH an open plain at Chippewa 2,l00
British regulars, most of whom were the
flower Of the British army, and defeated and
utterly routed, and in part captured them at
the point of the bayonet. This humbled
their pride, and they have not forgotten it,
After routing the British army repeatedly
on their own soil, he was finally taken pris-
oner by an immensely superior force, and
conveyed to Quebec on transport with his
men. While on their way, the Irish sold
ers who had fought with him were singled
out by the British officer, and were to be sent
to England to be hung. Scott, though un-
armed, Immediately appeared on deck and
stopped the proceedings, in spite of the Brit
sh officer and his threats. He warned them
that for every Irish soldier executed, the
blood Of English prisoners should flow, AND
HE WOULD GIVE THEM NO QUARTER IN BAT
TIE.
IL it strange that the English aristocracy
should like Franklin Pierce, ga descendant
of their own Percys," and be anxious for
his election2
Is it singular that they should hate the
DEFENDER OF THE IRISH, and the hero who
has so often vanquishcd them on their own
ground and with their own chosen weapons!
Thank God, WINFIELD SCOTT is an Amer
ican-every inch of his scarcovered body,
every throb and emotion of his heart and
soul. His grandfather was killed in bat
tie against the English, and his father forced
to flee from that kingdom with his life.
The ancestors of Franklin Pierce were
English mobiles, and they have emo appre-
hension" that he will not serve their cause!
There is choice between them.
C. B. A.
NOTHING IS LosT.-The drop that ming
les with the flood, the sand dropped on the
sea shore, the word that you have spoken,
will not be lost. Each will have its influ-
encc ,andbe felt till time shall be no MORE
Have you ever thought of the effect that
might be produced by single word! Drop
il pleasantly among group, and it will make
n dozen happy, to return to their homes and
produce the same effect on hundred per-
haps, A bad word may rouse the Indignation
of whole neighborhood; it may spread like
to produce disastrous effects, As
no word is lost, be careful how you speak,
Speak right,speak kindly.
SOME Few WEEKS AGO, strolled into
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