The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-06-30

From the New York Evening Post.
Ia N. Pierce and the Right OF Petition.

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| Gen. Pierce and the Right OF Petition.
Gen. Pierce voted, when in Congress, to re
spect the ght Of petition
He took the same ground with John Quinc,
Adams i'll regard to Slavery in the Dis ric,-
petitions
/ Tins Is the statement of Gen. PIERCE
"free Soil friends Aud here is its answer
fro II the official records OF the House Of Rep
rescntatiyes
On monday the Goth of December, 1886
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS presented petition 70
the abolition Of Slavery and the Slave Trade il
The Distrlst Of Columbia. 1t was moved TO la,
1t ON the table. The motion was adopted by ,
vote Of 1l6 Ayes 10 80 Noes First in the lis
or y ots stands the name of John Quincy Adams
and prominent among the Ayes is the name
FRANKLIN PIERcE!
On the 9th of January, 1887, 22S women o
South Weymouth asked the privilege Of peti
tioning Congress in regard 10 slavery Their
prayer was refused by vote of $50 to So
Among those who voted to grant it was JOHN
QUINCY ADAMS; among those who rejected it
was FRANKLIN PIERCE!
The next day the enemies OF the Right OF
Petition grew bolder. John w. Davis moved
to suspend the rules in order to pass resolution
not 70 receive any petition upon the subject of
Slavery. 1t failed, not because there was not a
CURED, and the vote stood 1U2 to IS. One of
the rs was JOHN Quincy ADAMS, and one of the
l02 was FRANKLIN PIKRcE.
But on the 18th of the same month .Nr
Hawes offered resolve, which ran as fol-
lows:
RssofUed, That all petitions, memorials, re-
solutions, propositions papers, relating in any
way, or to any extent to the subject of Slavery,
or to the abolition of Slavery, shall, acithOut
oetng printed or re(srred, be laid on the table,
ana NO FURTHER ACTION BE HAD THEREON.
The record shows that, previous to its pas
sage, Mr. Adams was among its strongest OPP
ponents, and Pierce among its warmest supper
ters 1t was passed by I29 to 90; john Quincy
ADAMS voting No, and FRANKLIN PIERc voting
AYE!
This is the candidate whom the ssFree Soilers"
OF lS4o and the Barnburners of 1852 are now
supporting, and whom hey pronounce eminent
ly qualified, by the principles and acts Of his
past, life, for the Presidency of the United
States-.4lbany Zee. Jour.
Yes and this is the man whose friendship for
the compromise, Is asserted by whig journals in
who, on all occasions, fearlessly took his stand
against the Slavery fanatics of the whig party
and whose views, had they been carried out,
would have relieved the country from the curse
OF most detestable and degrading agitation,
hundreds OF thousands of dollars expended in
profitless legislation, hatred between the peo-
pie of the North and the South, which can
not be eradcated for years to come, and the
robbery and murder Of some of the purcst and
best citizens of the republic This is the
man, who, adopting the advice of Gen. WASH
Ington, in his farewell address, and following
out the illustrous example of every democratic
President from Jefferson down, has scrupulous
ly adhered to the federal Constitution, to his
obligations as an honest man and a patriot, ano
has promptly and fearlessly dscountenanced
every effort to "drao geographical lines" and
create unhappy distinctions among our people
This is the man, who sooner than lend himself
to the corrupt designs of faction determined
upon the dissolution and destruction ot the coun.
try, would raise his voice and cast his vote to
silence the ciamors of an ingcnusly devised
plot to overthrow the government
This is the man, whose whole life has been
consIsten, adherence to one line of policy upon
the slavery question, and who has had the salts
faction Of beholding such men as Webster and
Fillmore, rise to the patriotic standard which he
had SO nobly, industriously and ably contributes d
TO erect.
Honor and gratitude tor the man who has so
nobly acquitted himself upon this and all other
democratic measures