Washington telegraph., 1852-09-08

anu tuIucu OFcT W Guc AUOllIlOHlStS, Ou dC-
count of its opposition to the Compromise
When it is known how bitter and how fire.
quent have been the attacks made by these
two journals upon General Pierce on ac-
count of his open national course on the
slavery question, every one will see, it
seems to me, how little confidence can be
placed in any such reports as the Republic
has seen fit to extract from their columns
1t is well known to you that on account of
his course upon this question, he has for a
long time been a constant mark for their
denuncation and abuse. [ send you few
extracts to show the spirit they have both
manifested towards him. The first is from
the independent Democrat of February
90, 1851.
1T is obvious TO every intelligent man
that for one offence-opposition to slavery
and the Fugitive Slave act-the decree of
outlawry against Mr. Atwood has gone forth
For this he has been denounced, harrassed
brought to the block For nothing else has
Franklin Pierce pursued him with the cruel
heartlessness of famished tiger and the
cunning malice of demon"
The next are extracts from the same pa
per, of June "a, 1852:
"GeneraI Pierce on the Right Of Peta-
tl0n.-The last National Era contains a
carefully-collated history of Gen. Pierces
Congressional career, showing that through
the whole nine years he served in the House
and Senate, the right of petition-a right
older than Magma Chaata-had no bitter
er or more unrelenting opponent than the
present Hunker Democratic candidate for
President of the United States. This is
not news to u.s. 1t is not news to the peo-
pie Of New Hampshire, in whose memories
the history of their degradation at the hands
of such men as Atherton, Pierce end Burke
is still fresh. They have not forgotten that
those men earned for the State they misrep-
resented the insulting and reasonable ap-
pellative Of the South Carolina of the
North, than which it were difficult to find a
name more significant of disgrace and shame.
X y X In this catalocue
stands Gen. Pierce. In all the nine years
he spent in Congress, not thought, word,
or act can be found which savors of the
slightest regard for civil, religious, or per-
sonal liberty. On all questions and all oc-
casons his course was one of entire and un-
qualified subserviency to the South and to
slavery. Such it has been since; nor, we
suppose, do he or his friends wish to deny
this. On this ground mainly-of his devo-
ton to the greatest wrong that curses the
earth-was he first brought forward by the
Virginia delegation, and afterwards endors-
ed by the whole Southern Democracy, as
proper standard bearer of their principles.
On this ground he and his friends expect to
see him elected if elected he shall be, which
is very doubtful"
The Manchester Democrat of June II,
1852, in an article entitled i" The Hunker
Democracy and their candidates" says:
"The convention, in its numerous ballot
ings exhibited the same determination of
the South to allow of the nomination of no
man unless notorious doughface of the
most devoted and unquestionable stripe, and
an advocate of their most ultra pretensions.
Thus the South clung to
Buchanan, until finding his nomination
impossible, and wearied by unsuccessful ef-
forts, they led the way in body for Frank
lin Pierce, of New Hampshire, whom they
well knew to be profoundly loyal to southern
interests, from whom no word or vote in
behalf of human rights has ever been re-
corded-who had avowed his entire devo-
ton to the Compromise, but who, in the
absence Of any avowal, could be better trust
ed by the slaveholding interests than ma
jority of the candidates for whom 1t had vo-
ted"
The above extracts accurately reflect the
sentiments entertained by the Abolitionists
or Freesoilers of this State towards Gener-
al Pierce, and furnish complete refutation
of all the absurd charges of abolitionism
which the Republic, or any Of it's abolition
allies, can manufacture or bring against
him.
[ am, very respectfully,
your obedient servant
B. F. AVER.