Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-08-13
Letter from General Pierce.

; following letter was written some eighteen
moks ago by Franklin Pierce. in reply to an nvi-
tati to participate in measures which were taken
for 3 erection of a monument to Gen Stark:
CONCORD February %. 1850.
Gklemen: Your note of this day, inviting me to
=" at I'D meeting to be held at the CT ~ Hall on
the I of March, at o'clock P. NJ for the pur-
pose taking measures to erect monument to the
memk of Major General Stark" has just been re-
ceived fear that my engagements in court, in
BelknS county, will prevent me from participating
with VI in this preliminary meeting. but whether
presenbr absent, you will need no assurance of NY
earnesto-operation in the successful prosecution Of
an obi9t which must make strong appeal to the
hearts every patriotic Of New Hampshire 1t
will, IN confident be the work of our whole popu-
laton.
Fatnrs and sons. mothers and daughters, will
hearth unite in an enterprise around which must
ever chster so many p-oud and grateful recolections
and that will make the column worthy of the bravest
and mst selfsacrfcing spirits of the age IF heroes
How naturally and inseparably united in association
are the names OF ashlngton and Marion. Stark
and Sullivan aid how fresh and delightful on this
anniversary the memory of these great men and their
associates They lived and labored in common
cause with unfinching forttnde. at period full Of
discoura cement danger, aud pr'vation. In what
was the Growing element of their final triumph -
Doubtless, so far rs human lnstrumentalities were
concerned in bond Of brotherhood and patriotism,
that knit together all hearts and nerved all hands
A narticinaic- III that struggle made this entry
unou -, military Journal May. 1777: The max.
nj adopted by our enemies is divide and corauer :
We enjoin the command. unite and be invincibie ;
Liberty or death unite or die are The notices
which blazen the chronicles of the day and embe-
lish the military standards of almost every militia
company"
The value of whatever will revive and strengthen
this sentiment cannot be oyerestmated while every
proposition, every act, every idle word calculated to
weaken it proposition, act, word false to hui
mainly.
God forbid, that while at the north and at the
sonth the present generation erecting monuments
commemorative of the of the revolution and of
the services of its leaders, they should by encourage
men countenance to sectional distust, cast pail
over all the brigh, hopes of the future.
In the fortunes of war Molly Stark was not made a
widow at Bennington but the monument will call up
saddenng but glorious memories of the fields Of
Lexington and Bunker Hill, Yorktown and Cowpen.
and many homes never afterwards gaddened BY
the sound of husbands voice Will it not pro6ta
bly, remind of the price at which the present pow
err freedom and prosperity Of this great confederacy
were purchased and necessarily of the only mean:
by which they be sustained and perpetuated!
| shall look with much interest for an account Of
your proceedings.
| am, very respectfully,
Your friend and servant,
FRANK. PIERCE.
Hon. R. H. Aver, J. Nick. Wilkins H. Brown, Esqs.
Committee