The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-08-19
suitable man to carry out their principles.
Hear what the New York Tribune says of him

suitable man to carry out their principles.
Hear what the New York Tribune says of him;
"The Union does not contain a biterer more
proscriptive pro-savery Hunker than Franklin
Pierce For years he has been foremost in sitting
every aspiration for freedom among the Democracy
of New Hampshire. He insisted that John r Hale
should be ostracsed and crushed because ho refused
TO vote for the annexation Of Texas. without supu'
ation that some part Of its immense unsettled terri
tory should be secured for free soil The P0d mas
still more recently this same Frank Pierce de-
prive John Atwood of his nomination for Governor
and drive him out of the party for nothing else than
expressing his repugnance TO tho Fugitive Slave Law
In all New England, slavery and slave catching have
had INSCRIPTIONS, thick-and-thin serylt0r,
than this same Frank Pierce"
Says the honorable gentleman from Tennes-
see Mr. GENTRY, Honor to General Pierce,
if the Tribune truly states his position, us be-
lieve it doesn Thus we see leading member
of the Wing party endorsing Frank Pierce, be-
cause he is against freedom among the Democ-
racy of New Hampshire, and in favor of the
Fugitive Slave Lava law which Mr. APPLE
TON, of Maine, says is the result OF great
Democratic prncplel We have now present
ed to us two great parties, standing on the
same platform, embracing fundamental prin-
ciples" which are considered the very perfec
ton of all human and divine legislation-noth-
ing less than "fnoltyt" Now, sir, mas
much as in their opinion, this law has become
| like the laws of the Modes and Persians, which
changeth not, have thought proper, for the
| benefit of the great mass of the people and for
| those who may hereafter become converts to
this new system of political ethics to put these
fnalityn measures into a more definite FORM
or creed, as they apply to the existing state of
things. 1t may read thus
believe in the great Democratic principle
Of supporting the regular nominee right OF
wrong, providing always he is in favor of the
Fugitive Slave Law and the Compromise meas
ures.
| believe that slavery is cardinal principle
in civil government ordained of God conserva-
tive in character, and the chief corner stone OF
Democracy
believe in the Baltimore platform, which
| deprecates free discussion both in and out OF
| Congress, on the subject of universal liberty
| believe in the Constitution of the United
States, as interpreted by Shareholders and re.
pudate any "higher law" as fanatical, be.
cause at war with Christianity and the perpe-
tuity of the Union
believe that man was made for the Consti-
tuition. and not the Constitution for man.
believe that the highest felicity to be at
tanned in life consists in the honors and emolu-
ments of Office, and that, in acquiring them, the
end sanctiies the means
believe in the doctrine of nOn-intervention.
except in the United States that is, should
any of the people of the slave States attempt
to become free, that it would be the duty of
the Federal Government to interfere with force
of arms against such a traitOrOus attempt.
| believe in the Compromise measures" as
IA " fnality," and that the Fugitive Slave Law
should be considered part of the Constitu
ton; that it is humane and kind, because it
seeks to elevate the colOred race; and that
every person gives new proof of his fidelity to
the Union" when he refuses a cup of water
or a crust of bread to any poor, painting fugi
tive, who has had the audacity to run away
with himself!
| believe that the General Government per-
forms high and patriotic duty in recapturing
and returning to bondage every person who
arrogates to himself the right of freedom with
out the consent of his master
! believe that slavery is right per se-that it
exists independent of law-hence the imprison-
ment of runaway slaves on charges of "theft,"
in order to get possession of their persons, is
neither in derogation of law nor equity but in
perfect keeping with the spirit of slavery.
believe that the repugnance felt at the
falsely-styled bribery clause" in the Fugitive
Slave Act, and the strong opposition shown by
the fanatics of Massachusetts, to South Caro-
lima and Louisiana making slaves of her citi-
zens, as also the weeping and wailing of the
wives of fugitive slaves, when they see letters
and handouts rveted on the limbs of their
husbands and know that they are separated
from them forever are merely the results of a
"sickly sympathy" unworthy the consideration
| of true republicans!
| believe that slave traders and shareholders
have II property right in their slaves, which
= two hundred years of legislation have sanct-
fed" and that the laws of many of the States
making it IA penal offence to impart instruction
to slave, are compatible with, and essentially
necessary to, the preservation Of that right
| believe that the laws forbdding any col
ored person to testify against IA white man, for
injuries committed on one of his own race, are
in keeping with slavery; and that the death
penalty enforced upon persons of color for
striking a white man. even though it be in de-
fence Of life or personal chastity, and their own
so-caled natural rights, is wise and salu-
tary law, and necessary to the perpetuation of
the peculiar institution
believe that the words in the Constitution,
4" to establish justice and promote .the general
welfare mean the maintenance of slavery in
the District of Columbia the coastwise slave
trade, the catching and returning of negroes to
slave dealers and slave owners
believe that the great mission of this Re-
public is to teach other nations by example
and that the law in the District of Columbia
authorizing the Imprisonment and sale for Jail
iaal nf polnrnd bn
himself free and who is not claimed by a slave
holder, affords powerful lesson of instruction
to foreigners and foreign ministers: that it
serves to give character and stability to our
/" cherished institution at home and shame
despotism abroad
believe that morality should have no inhu-
ence over us in the discharge of our political
duties, for the obvious reason that it would
lead to union of Church and State
believe that the protection of commerce by
the General Government, in the improvement
of harb0rs and rivers, serves to disturb the
equilibrium Of. tho States" by too rapidly
building up the free Northwest and weakens
the Union, and therefore ought not to receive
the countenance of the Government
believe that despotsm and freedom are an
tagonistical to each other-that either one or
the other must rule and as the former is ma
tional and the latter sectional that slavery
should always hold the reins of Government
believe it to be the duty of the people, in
choosing their Chief Magistrate, to elect a
President that will appoint pro-slayery Judges
and Governors to preside over the Territories
who shall annul the sickly autslavery laws
left in full operation over this vast country by
the barbarous Mexicans, that proper founda-
ton may be laid for States which shall be truly
national in character, repudiating the vulgar
notion Of liberty and equality as sectional and
fanatical
Lastly believe that the success Of Pierce
and King, or Scott and Graham, will be the
success of slavery and of the Compromise