Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1852-08-05

We have no disposition to do Gen. Pierce
injustice. We have no desire that either he or
Gen. Scott shall be made to occupy any other
position before the country. than that which
their past lives and real sentiments assign them.
We have entire confidence. that upon fair
presentation Of these the candidate Of the
Wing party will present claims to the popular
admiration and confidence, so superior TO those
Of his adversary. as to render the judgment of
thepeople in his favor. certain and overw helm
ing. Prompted by this spirit. we have placed
before The reader The statements on both sides,
relative to the recent disclosures Of General
Pierce's home ciers Of slavery. This we
shall continue to do.unt the truth is ascertain
ed beyond dispute or doubt.
The Washington Union oflhe Goth contains
the following certificates:
ave were all ofus present on the occasion
referred to, and are, therefore, able 20 speak
positively in regard to the truthfulness Of that
report. We do not hesitate to pronounce it,
" ithout any qualification, tissue of falseh GODS
from beginning to end. In whole and in part,
in substance and detail. it is entirely and
grossly false. and was sodenounced by those of
US " no saw it al the time of its original publ
cation. No one expression there imputed to
General Pierce is correct, and most of them
are entire fabrications, without the slightest
shadow of truth.
Gen. Pierce's speech upon this occasion was
an able, bold. and eloquent ,indica,ion of the
course pursued by the Democratic party ofthe
State in resembling the nomination Of John At
wood, their former candidate for Governor, on
account of his joining with the Abolitonsts in
their opposition to the Compromise measures
He spoke Of the Fugitive Slave law as an act
IN perfect conformity 10 the requirements Of
the Constitution, and one that we were bound
by the highest considerations, to observe & exc
cute in good faith. He alluded to the arguments
made use fby the higher law politicians, and
denounced their doctrines as fanatical and dam
gerous. He showed that their objections to the
present Fugitive Slave law applied with equal
force to the act of 1898, and even the Consti-
tuition ITSELF The law of 1898. he said, had
received the approval of Washington and ma
ny Of the wisest and purest patriots among the
founders of our Republic; and he considered
these men as moral, as virtuous. and as con-
scientlous as those noisy Abolitonists who were
now trying to overthrow the institutions they
have established.
"To US who are acquainted with the char
ac,er Of warfare the Abolition organs of this
State have been accustomed to wage against
the Democratic party, communications in their
columns like the one above referred TO occa.
sion no surprise. Here they can deceive one.
But as desperate attempt has been made
abroad to prejudice Gen'l Pierce by reviying
some Of their miserable falsehoods we have
deemed 1t no more than a simple act of justice
to publish over our own signatures the forcgo-
ing declaration.
July "a, 1852"
This certificate is signed by some one hun
dred names. Improves. the Republic remarks.
too much. 1t alleges that the report in the
Manchester Democrat is false in whole and in
detail and then goes on to show that at least
portion OF that report is true. There is nothing
/ inconsistent in the report Of General PIERcEs
remarks above given, and in that of the Man
chester and Concord Dem ocrats GenlPierce
spoke two hours and half, and it is obvious
that he might have said many more things than
are touched upon in the above paragraph.
Do these gentlemen deny that Mr. Foss was
present at the meeting and that he took hottest
Do they deny that he addressed gu cstions to
General PIERcEl
Do they deny that those questions are cor
reetly statedl
Do they furnish US with General PIERCE,
repEesl
General denials and denunciations will not
answer. Angry personal attacks amount to
nothing. To nothing. certainly in the absence
of the best testimony that can be reduced
The Republic for the 29th alt, contained the
following:
Gen. Pierce aud Slavery.
There is nothing to be gained in controversy
BY recourse TO vituperatve language. The
Union may exhaust the vocabulary of abuse,
without persuading any one that The Republic
circula,es statements which it disbelieyes; or
that it has any sympathies with Aboionism
We have published two reports of General
Pierce's speech at New Boston. The Union
attempts to discredit these reports, on the
ground that they come from the Freesoil wing
oithe Democracy, and are therefore unworthy
OF belief The New York Post on tie other
hand, Democratic journal Of the highest abil-
ity and pretensions, the organ Of the most in
fiuential and celebrated Northern Democrats
OF the Van Burens, Butler. Dix. Cleaveland.
Rantoul. and host of others. without whom,
the Northern Democracy is nothing and no.
where-the Evening Post gives full credence
| to hereports, commends the sentiments attrib-
uted by them to General Pierce, and calls up
on US to produce further testimony orihe same
sort. The legislative records of New Hamp-
shire, the resolutions Of her State and county
Conventions. show that the Democrats proper
oil that State, have for years held the same Ian.
guage that's ascribed to Gen. Pierce, and the
witnesses produced by the Union, to rebu, the
evidence ofthe Manchester and Concord Dem.
ocrats, are distinctly proved to have given
their personal endorsements TO the same senti-
| ments. and to stand in consimili cosu with the
witnesses who are denounced by the Union as
vile and Infamous Abolitionists. The differ
ence that we can find between Mr. Norris and
Mr.. Hale is extremely thin. Mr.. Norris disa-
vows his local sentiments on the subject OF
slavery when he reaches Washington; Mr..
Hale has the manliness and courage to adhere
to them. Mr.. Peaslee and Mr.. Hubbard do
not carry out their convictions to the same