Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-09-01
General F. PIERCE, Concord, N. H.
Concord, N. H., JULY %, Is5

CONCORD, N H., July %. 1852.
My DEAR SIR: Surrounded by pressing engage
ments, l seize the earliest opportunity to reply to
your letter of the 18th instant. much regret that
any thing connected with myself should have been
the of disagreement between you and gentle
with whom you have been associated in the edi-
torial department of the Souhern Press. do not re-
member ever have seen what purports to be
port of speech delivered by me at New Boston, in
this State, in January last, until my attention was
called to it repubished in the Republic. The pre-
tended report is, and presume was designed to be.
entire misrepresentation. IL IS not merely un-
truthful, but is grossly and absurdy false as TO
render. in this vicinity, any denial of Its authenci-
ty entirely unnecessary. The two papers quoted
the Independent Democrat, published in this place,
and the Democrat published in Manchester-are tho
roughly abolition journals; and have been and are
zealously opposed to the Democratic party. For
long time prior to the meeting at New Boston, and
ever since they have been unsparng in their attacks
upon me personally, and in their bitter denuncialion
of what they have been pleased 10 term my pro-saVe-
nv sentiments. But it would be something new for
either Of these papers to deny the consistency OF my
opinions upon the subject of the constitutional rights
of the South in relation to slavery. My opinions and
the avoTal of them have been everywhere the same
Ever mindful of the difficulties and dangers which
so long brooded over the assemblage Of wise men
and pure patriots to whose spirit of concession and
earnest efforts we are indebted for the Constitution
nnder which we have enjoyed such signal prosperity,
advancement, and happiness, l have regarded the
subject as too vital and delicate to be used as an ele
lion and nv language in New Hampshire, touching
this matter have been at all times and under all cir
cumstances in entire accordance with my action and
language at Washington. My votes in the Senate
and House of Representatives were not rePuollshed
in the Era for the first time. They have been again
and again paraded to arouse the passions ana PreJu-
dices of our people against me individually, and
against the party with which it has been my Prlde
and pleasure act. There has been no attempt to
eyade the force of the record. 1t has been at all times
freely admitted, and my position sustained upon
grounds satisfactory to my own mind am not sur
prsed to know that the attempt TO prove me an aoo-
iitonist provokes much merriment among men OF all
parties here and this weak and untruhul sketch of
what purpors be my speech, is really too ridicu-
lous to be considered in any serious light. .
l am daily in the receipt of letters, propoundng
the greatest variety of curious questions, upon all
conceivable subjects. Letters Of this character can
not be answered, of course. No individual could
command either the time strength the herculean
task would require. may add, that such cores
pondence Would by means comPort with my views
of duty The Democratic party sent its delegates to
Baltimore not alone to nominate candidates, but to
reairm principles and to present the leading issues
upon which the canvass should be conducted.
If l could deem myself capable of improving the
platform there adopted, is quite certain that should
decline, either at the call of individuals or assoca-
tions incur the charge of arrogance to which any
attempt to alter, amend, enlarge 1t, would lneVlta-
bly, subject me.