Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1852-08-18
m,. FAuLKNER.s SPEECH, &c.

Mh FAULKNER is flooding the district with
copies Of bis Speech made on the I'd Of Au.
gust. 1852
His argument seems 10 be. that tie Wing
party belongs to Vim II Seward VIM n
Seward is an abolitonist - therefore the
Wing party must be the abolition party
VIM IL Seward will support. and vote for
Gen. Scott; therefore Gen. Scott is an abo-
liiionist.- therefore he, Mr. Faulkner, cant
gofor Scott First rate logic, eogeut reason
ing indeed. But We apprchend the people
will deny the premises, question the deluc-
tons, and ask for further proof before they
arrive at Mr.. Faulkner's conclusions But
what does he say about the Van Burens, who
have sworn never to support a Southern man
for President. who refused to support Mr.
Cass in 1913, because be was too much of a
Southern man, and who then fixed themselves
upon the Buffalo Abolition Platform and
who now are the warm advocates Of Pierce.
Nothing. What of Giddings, Preston King,
Dix, Cleveland, Campbell, Chase, Hale aud a
host of abolition leaders, all of whom support
Pierce Notiingi He is willing to take
these men to his embrace, and with them 60
for the election of man who said he "LoArn.
I'D he Fagitire Stare Law," who clad a
most rerohing feeling at'the gipipg up Of
a Stare" And who, in speech quoted
from by Mr.. Faulkner himself, said "Whc
did not dcplorc slavery? But what sound
thinking mind regarded that as the only eyi
that could rest upon the laad The men
that woald DISSOLVE THE UNION did not HAITI
or DErLonE SLAVERY MORE than he did They
20 hand in hand for the man who SAID, il
Congress, Il have NO HESITATION in saying
that consider SLAVERY A SOCIAL AND fo1Ir
IcAL EVIL, and MOST SINCERELY WISH i, had
no eIiStenee on the face of The earth"
But when we recollees that Mr.. Faulkner
himself in the Legislature of Virginia, ii
1882, said
If slavery can be ersdicated, in God.
name, let ussget rid Of IT, If it cannot, lei
the melancholy fact be distinctly asccrtained
and let those who We have been told are nov
awaiting with painful solicitude the result 0
your determination, pack up their household
goods, ard find among the luxurious forest,
and praires of the West, that security anC
repose which their native land does not af-
ford"
His course is not so much to be wondered
at, Birds Of feather" Sc.
The funniest part of Mr. Faulkner's spcecl
is its conclusion. lie says:
My irst acquaintance with General Pierre
dates back to August. 1888. Since tina
time have been close observer OF his pub
lie career. Time does not enable me. now
TO so into an examination of his course, =
But do not fear contradiction wheo ! sssert
that the record of no Northern statesman cy
bibHs more uniform and consistant respect
Tor the constitutional rights Of the South thar
bis nor can one be shown manifestiug more
true loyalty to all the objects and purposes
for which this great Union was formed. Ii
will give me pleasure, sir, to record my vot,
for him"
lie became acquainted with Gen. Pierce
in 1888, aud ''since that time has been close
observer Of bis public career" and found hin
true 30 the rights Of the South, and 'all the
objects and purposes for which this great
Union was formed" Gen. Pierce was more
than eight years in Congress-, and did any
body bit Mr. Faulkner in this County know
when be was nominated, that he had ever
been there at all 2 What did he do then. in
all that time to give him place in the mcm-
Org Of his eonntrymcn Surely there waa