Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-09-08
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Judge OOnfaus maue az 5phe 1AhRtspufS
Wing Mass Meeting, and published in
the, Franklin Repository Of the ed inst3ssF
Wing paper printed in chambersburg,
Pa, the following:p d9.o1d1 aIuiL...i lfrUril
5aol9iiI first ask your votes for Winfield
Scott, because you are compelled to choose
between him and Franklin Pierce. There
is no other, choices.%s sue To vote for a third
candidate is the suicide of suffrage. 1t is
tonullify aPrivilege and to skulk duty /;
it is neutrality, and the neutrality OF q
freemanssis the crime of slave. lEhoid
that Franklin Pierce is not only interior
how inferior Ito Gen, Scott, put tnaV
heis per Sc, and positively, unnS lo' t"e
Presidency. Hear my reasons. .-v::
One Of he most vital of the liberties of
4be neonle-one bought with blood, sane
tilted by time and secured by Charters
the Rigdt of Petitioa--a right inestimable
to us, and formidable to tyrants only
No freeman would brook its abatement in
the weight of hair, 1t was cheaply
bought, aud would be cheaply preserved,
with an ocean Of blood. Yet Franklin
Pierce, by his vote in Congress, denied
and sought to destroy that right. There
fore is he unfit,
He is unfit, further, because he repro
sents platform of principles the most
odious and destructive. Here some of
the over-crowded benches fell, creating a
momentary confusion.l That fall is omi-
nous Of the fate of his platform and his
party-frst crash, [applausel and then
the shouts of an exulting people, Ho is
unfit also, because he is allied at the
South with the rankest and most arrogant
foes of the Union-men who would tear
the Constitution 10 shrcds and Irvine those
shreds into thongs for slaves; and asso-
ciatcd, at the North, with plant and
hungry horde, ready to kiss those thongs
or wear them, ifthc majesty of the South
deign but TO give them kick or cast
them copper"
Gen. Pierce, while in Congress, oppo-
.sed, rs he has ever opposed, the agitation
of the question of slavery, because he
believed its agitation was fraught with
danger to the Union, and so believing vo-
ted with the whole Southern delegation,
and patriots everywhere, against conside-
hing petitions for the abolition of slavery.
For this, he is denounced before Penn
sylvaniN audience, and held up to them as
unfit for the Presidency, At the same
time, the metropolitan Wing organ in
this State, is denouncng him as unfit to
receive the support of the Southern peo-
pie because of (as the Wing would have
its readers belicve) his unsoundness upon
the question of slavery, Gen. Pierce, is
also represented as unfit for the Presidcn-
,cy, because he represents Il "platform
of principles" which declares the finality
OF the Compromise measures, and of
course opposes all slavery agitation.-
Judge Conrad also holds him up before
the frcemcn of Pennsylvania, as unfit for
tho Presidency, because, he says in sub
stance, that lie (Gcn, Picrce,) if elected
President would not make war upon the
South or Southern institutions. While he
is thus denounced in Pennsylvania for his
loyalty to the Constitutional rights of the
South, the Richmond Wing is engaged
in the praise worthy effort of repre-
scnting him to the Southern people
as an abulitionist, frcc-soicr or something
worse.
We commend the above extracts to the
Wbig, and trust that it will have the fair
ness to publish them for the benefit of its
slovc-holding readers, SO that they may
see the reasons urged upon the frccmen
of Pennsylvania, at Wing Mass Meet
ing, by Pennsylvania Wing Judge, high
an the confidence of his party, why the
treemCn of that acknowledging State,
should vote for Scott and against Pierce.
The legitimate deduction to be drawn
from Judge Conrad's remarks is, that be-
cause Pierce will not lend himself to sla-
very northumberland he represents a
platform of principles, pledged to the
maintenance Of the Constitution and the
Compromise measures, he is unfit for the
Presidency. But, because Gen. Scott
will lend himself aud the influence of his
administration if elected, to those who
arc called" at the North "with the ran
kest and most arrogant foes of the Union, -
(the niger law party) "who would tear
the Constitution into shreds and Irvine
those shreds into thongs" to effect the alb
clifton of slavery, and because Gen. Scott
does not represent a platform of princi-
pies but merely accepted the nomination
with the resolutions annexed" he is fit
for the Presidency, and worthy TO receive
the support of the frcemcn, (highcr.law
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