The Yazoo Democrat., 1852-08-04
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PHILLIPS & BOWMAN, EDIroRs.
The first Wing Abolition and Se-
ward pIOa exposed md exnIolae.r.

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calculated to awaken the bitterest and most gen
eral detestation. 1t might be supposed that men
OF ordinary intelligence would hesitate before
resorting to such perilous expedients; but the
case of the friends of Scott is itself in most
perilous and extraordinary position. Something
must be done to save it--some sweeping couD
d'etdt must be adventured and though the risk
they run is great, they hope to escape the conse-
quences OF their profigate disregard of all honor
and of trath by the abandoned reeklessness of
their movements. A more dishonoring attitude
for great party to occupy could not possibly be
conceived. Ii is the latest and boldest exhibi-
tion of those baleful influences which surround
Gen. Scott, and which, carried into. an admins
tration of the federal government, must visit
! the most fatal consequences upon the interests
of the country. Indeed from these debasing
tactics we can see what sort of an administration
Gen. Scott wonld have if he were elected Presi-
dent The Republic has embarked in this bad
business as in labor of love, and the example
will doubtless be followed by the whole chorus
of the whig press; but what work it is to ex-
pect honorable men to advocate and intelligent
citizens to approve
lition papers in New Hampshire, certain letters
purportiug to have been printed in January last
containing extracts from speech of Gen. Pierce
in which he is charged with having taken ground
against the principles of the fugitive slave law
The country will observe that the witnesses to
this shameless charge are abolitionists OF the vi
lest stamp-men whose lives have been devoted
to the cause of disunion-men who have felt
the powerful antagonism against their helish de-
signs of such patriots as Franklin Pierce, and
who now. as in January last, baffled and beaten,
cowed and overthrown, invent the most reck-
less falsehoods against the man and the men who
have crushed their base and unholy combina-
tons against the constitution of the United
States The men who conduct the shameless
sheets upon which the Republic relies are in the
last degree unworthy and vile their vitupera-
tions of Pierce are such as they have poured out
upon all men who have espoused the cause of the
Union; and their irreverent ISLANDERS strike not
only AT the patriotic living, but also at the Illus
trious dead They are the worst jackalls even of
the party of jackalls, and belong 10 those out
Iawed knaves who, in the press and from the
rostrum have proclaimed Washington a dealer
tuition g a league with the devil,s and q bond
with hell" We speak on the authority of The
most respectable public men of New Hampshire,
when we say that the character for truth and We
racity of the two journals cited by the Republic,
| is infamous.
These are the witnesses of the Redublic, the
chosen organ of Gen. Scott. These are the wit
nesses who are to convince the South that Gen.
Pierce is false to that iealty to the constitution
which has been his day-star-fhe passion of his
whole political existence-the very corner stone
of his political existence-the very cornerstone
of his political faith. For shame for shame
If this self-refuting falsehood does not stagger
those who retail it, the character Of its dishon-
ored and reasonable authors should induce them
to castit from them as if there were pestilence
in the touch That it is false-false in the gen
eral-false in the detail-fase in every aspect in
which it can be discussed-false from the begin
ming to the ending-we have the authority of
those who know Gen. Pierce personally fer say
| ing who knew of the speech here alluded to,
and who declare that no such language as that
attributed to him ever fell from his lips at any
time, on any OCCASION from his first entrance in
to public life down to this hour. But this is
not all. The charge is that Gen. Pierce denoun-
ced the fugitive slave law in terms q to satisfy
the abolitionists" at the very time when he was
laboring to throw oberboard Mr. Atwood for a
breach of party faith as pledged by the democrat
ic party of New Hampshire 10 the maintenance
of the Compromise. These witnesses them
selves. testify that in the same speech in which
they falsely charge Gen. Pierce as denounclng
the fugitive law, he spoke of the passage and
maintenance of the compromise measures as es-
sentIal to the safety of the Union. In his letter
of acceptance, Gen. Pierce tells the country
over his own signature, that there is " no act OF
word of his life' in opposition to the declara
T tion of the democratic resolutions, that the re
peal of the fugitive law would be Incompatible
with fidelity to the requirements of the con
stitution." Yet one of these abolition witnes
: ses produced by the Republic makes this state
ment:
seGeneral Pierce Immediately replied IF ]
mast dnSacer the question, ISdy no, do not.
haze been asked If Itiked the fugitive siare lGao
/ a,asrered no, I loathed 1t. hare most re-
f rolling feeling at the giping up Of sloue; tn
4 ldao is opposed to humanity
The value of this testimony and the loathsome
.. .. character of the tactics adopted by the Repub
: lie against Gen. Pierce, may be comprehended a
i glance, when it is known at this very moment
: in this very city, at the same time that the Re
: public's abolition falsifers were reproduced tt
Ishow that Pierce was hostile to the Fugitiv,