The Yazoo Democrat., 1852-08-11
MANCHESTER. July 15. 1852.

@ NJ iioiil liie Alanchester Democrat" publish
ed here, and the . Independent Democrat" pub.
llshed at Concord, purporting to give a report Of
speech made by Gen Pierce last December at
New Boston. Nothing could be more false and
caiumHioas than the account there given of Gen.
Pierce remarks. l was present at the meeting.
with several Others from this city, and remen-
Der very distinctly the drift and substance Of his
speech. This was the first popular meeting of
the last political campaign, and was held at the
home Ct John Atwood, then the abolition cam
didate sor governor Gen. Pierce's speech was
mainly devoted to justification of the course
pursued 5y himself and the democratic party the
year before in resembling Mr.. Atwood's nomina-
! tloa Tor governor in consequence Of his opposi-
ton to the compromise measures. In the course
of his speech Gen. Pierce alluded to the fugitive
slave law. and made strong argument in sup
port Of it. 1t IS wholly untrue that he pro-
nounced it contrary to ''moral right !" but on
the contrary, in reply to-a question proposed by
anabolition present, he said The present law was
the same in principle and substance, as that
which had received the approvalof Washington.
and many others of the wisest and purest among
the founders of the republic lie thought that
these men were to be considered as moral, as
conscientious. and as patriotic as those Of the
present day, who were, for political effect, con-
stantly storming about slavery, without being
able to suggest any practicable plan for its aboli
ton
The speech was throughout a thoroughly ma
tional speech, and produced powerful Effect
No full report of it was published though a
brief abstract of it appeared shortly after in the
Union Democrat Of this city.
remember seeing the reports copied by the
Republic" when they first appeared, and con
versing in regard to them with several persons
who heard Gen. Pierce's speech. All agreed in
pronouncing tietn a gross perversion and almost
entire fabrication from beginning to end. Both
reports were evidently written by the same indi-
vidual, which accounts for their close similarly.
Both Of the papers from which these com
munications are taken, are, as you well know,
violent abolition journals, and have been IN
sparing in their hostility TO General Pierce, and
indeed oil the prominent members Of the demo
cratic party III the State. One Of them was
started by the abolitionists some years since as
the organ Of John p Hale aud his associates
and the other was repudiated by the democratic
party and TUNED over to the abolitienists, on
account Of is opposition to the Compromise
When It's known how bitter and how frequent
have been the attacks made by these two jour
nails upon Gen. Pierce, on account of his open
national course on the slavery question, every
one win see, it seems to me, how little conf
dence can be placed in any such reports as The
:. Republic" has seen fl to extract from theii
J columns, Ii is we'll known to you that, on ac
5 count of his course upon this question, he has
! fora long time been constant mark for thei
{ denunciation and abuse. send you few ex
tracts to show the spirit they have both manifes
t ted towards him. The first is from the hide
/ pendent Democrat Of February 20, 1851;
1T is obvious to every intelligent man tha
, for enc offence-Opposition to slavery and The
fugitive slave act-the decree of outawry against
Mr. Atwood has gone forth. For this he has
1 been denounced, harrassed, and brought to the
e block For nothing else has franklin Pierce
pursued him with the cruel heartlessness of a
iamished tiger and the cunning malice of de-
, mon"
l The next extract is from the same paper, o.
June 81, 1852:
ssGENERAL PIERCE ON THE RIGHT OF PETITION
The last National Era contains carefully col
lated history of General Pieree,s congressional
career. showing that through the whole nine
, years he served In the House and Senate, the
right of petition-a right older than Afagnt
Charta-had no bitterer or mer more unrelent
: ing opponent than the present bunker democrat
a ic candidate for President of the United States
This is not news to us. 1t is not news to the
: people of New Hampshire, in whose memories
1 the history of their degradation at the hands o
4 such men as Atherton, Pierce, and Burke, !.
e still fresh They have not forgotten that .hos
men earned for the State they misrepresented tn
> insulting and reasonable appellative of tn
South Carolina of the North, than which i
t were difficult to find name more significant O
! disgrace and shame. x X X In this cat
alogue stands Gen. Pierce. In all the nine year
he spent in Congress not thought, word, or &C
1 can be found which savors of the slightest re
e gard Tor civil, religious, or personal liberty. o
o all questions and all occasions his course wa
! one of entire and unqualified subserviency t
= the South and to slavery. Such 1t has been since
nor, we suppose, do he or his friends wish {
. deny this. On this ground mainly, of his de
votion TO the greatest wrong that curses tn
y earth, was he fist brought forward by the Vii
n ginia delegation, and afterwards endorsed by til
,r whole southern democracy, as proper standard
e bearer of their principles. On this ground
and his friends expect to see him elected, if eeC
| ted he shall be, which is Tery doubtful
The Manchester Democrat of June II, l85;
o in an article entitled " The Hunker Democrac
n and their Candidates" says
o ssThe convention in its numerous balIoting
d exhibited the same determination of the Sout
; to allow of the nomination of no man unless
notorious doughface Of the most devoted and ar
ooff1a