Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1852-08-21


mentioned. The delegates to be chosen il
the same manner, and proportioned as the
Representatives to the General Court; provided
that no alteration shall be made in this con-
stitution before the same shall be laid before
to towns and unincorporated places, and ap-
proved by two-thirds of the qualified voters
present and voting on the subject.
Sec. 100. And the same method of taking
the sense Of the people as to the revision of
the constitution, and calling a convention for
that purpose, shall be observed afterwards,
at the expiration of every seven years.
HONEST OPINIONS ON 1T.
Now, then, here is the Constitution of the
State of New Hamshire, fostering in its big
otry in religion and aristocracy in property,
under the blaze of the noon of the 10th CEN
tury, and unchanged, and without attempt to
change it, from 1892 to 1850; and yet for
over halfa century-during which time Benz
Pierce was a member of the Legislature,
Counsellor and Governor,and Franklin Pierce,
for period of over twenty years. was the
leading man Of the party in power. member
of the Legislature. (the same year his father
was GOVERNOR and Speaker Of the House of
Representatives the two succeeding years
for over dreary half century of penal laws,
no member of the Pierce family made one
single speech urging the justice Of Catholic
emancipation. Nay, more, it will be seen
that a bare majority of the the people could
have ordered the Constitution amended every
seventh year by simple majority, and lcere
bound to vote every seventh year whether the
Constitution should be amended. Four times
did these seven year trials occur since Frank
lin Pierce was elected member and Speak
er of the House of Representatives, yet dumb
as an oyster and dark as dungeon did he
keep himself Thus did he champion the
cause Of Religious Liberty Well may every
Catholic say to Mr.. Pierce in the language
of Israels Inspired observation-disclosures l
have called and ye refused. Ial-
SO will laugh at your calamity; l will mock
when your fear cometh"
Let US see what this New Hampshire ener-
nifty is. 1t is an enorInity in the eyes of all
men, not only Catholics, but liberal Republi-
cans of all sects. 1t is the penal and test
idea of the House of Brunswick and Guelph.
1t is the enormity which the British Tory Ad-
minstration of Peel and Wellington abolished
for Irish Catholics in 1929, when Franklin
Pierce first took his seat in the New Hamp-
shire Legislature. New Hampshire Locofoeo-
ism remains to- day more bigoted and besotted
than British Toryism was twenty-three years
ago, and Lord Roden, Tresham, Gregg or
Lord John Russell has stronger claims than
Franklin Pierce has to true Republican votes,
for the ir parties (Tories though they be)open-
ed the door of the British Parliament to Cath
olics, while New Hampshire refuses to open
her Legislature. II Thomas Francis Meag-
her should get naturalized there, if Charles
Carroll, of Carrolton, the last living sipner of
our Declaration of Independence had chosen
to reside there, or if our present Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States,
Hon. Roger B. Tanney, should choose to live
there, one and all would be excluded from
the right to seat in the New Hampshire
:wo-penny Legislature, unless they perjured
or foreswore their creed-and |
this is the kind of Democracy which every
man endorses who votes for Franklin Pierce,
the leader Of that Democracy in New Hamp- |
shire whom the Loco Foco Press informs US |
t was intended to compliment by his nomina-
lion. Well might Judge Woodbury. say, as
he did in the New Hampshire Constitutional
Convention, that this New Hampshire enor-
nifty branded the Catholic, Though educated,
md talented, and virtuous. with infamy and
disgrace, and sent him and his family through
'ur streets and social circles, marked like Cain,
Is sort of degraded outcast or helot, no, fit
@ be intrusted with either legislative or ex-
,cutive rights, though bestowed fully on the
most ignorant and reprobate."
PIERcE's OPINION OF IT.
Such was the opinion of Judge Woodbury.,
'uch is the opinion of every honest republican
If every sect Now what has been the Frank
in Pierce's denunciation of the enormity p
Did he concur with Judge Woodbury. in de-
louncing it as disgrace?
Truly no. We are told that old Benjamin
Pierce got Franklin Pierce to write his mess
ages, as he could not even spell the word
but" This is quite likely. Well. Franklin
Pierce was a member of the Legislature in
829. In June, 1929, Benjamin Pierce, be-
lg Governor of the State, sent in bis annual
Message to the House of Representatives, of
Which this Franklin Pierce was leading mem.
er. Well, this Franklin Pierce, in that an
ual message of his father, said, just after {
wearing to a constitution which excludes {
catholics from the four principal Offices of the
tate:
"To look abroad and behold ever citizens t
7ithout distinction Of sect or rank, exercising
be fuH and eqato@ rights Of ciUtL and religious
;berty (e) are alone sufficient to excite emo s
ions of gratitude too strong ever to be oblit-
rated'
Here Franklin Pierce put it into the mouth {
his Father, the Governor, to insult deliber- {
tely ever lover of truth, equal rights and re-
ublican liberality, by saying that his emotions '
f Gratitude were too strong ever to be oblit- {
rated in glorying in that bogus system of I
quail rights which marked the most numer-
US sect in Christendom with the disgrace of
be helot and the mark of Cain. Why should {
be people of New Hampshire change their
when the leader Of the Democra-
v of that State then, and the leader of the
democracy of the United States now, saw the {
Catholics branded as outcasts and helots, and
xcluded from offices open to the negros, with
ceilings of gratitude "too strong ever to be