Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-07-13

That General Fierce Is a Northern man with
Southern principles it needed not the record to
establish in general sense. But it is perhaps.
not so we'll known, that he fought shoulder to
shoulder with Southern men, not only on those
questions which involve the peculiar doctrines
of democracy but in every stage of Discussion
when slavery and anti-slayery principles were
brought into conflict in Congress. The. Nation.
al Era of the 18th ult contains an elaborate ar
ticle in which the proofs of Gen Pierce's adj
herence to Southern rights are accumulated
that he might be rendered, ifpossible, obnoxious
to his Northern friends and supporters The,
Era has taken all this trouble to confute the New
York Evening Post, which had affirmed that
Gen Pierce had taken the same ground as Mr..
Adams, as to the propiety, Of abolishing slavery
in the District of Columbia, but declared that
he would give no vote which might be conf
strued into denial Of the right petition" ."'7r
The Era conclusively shows shat the Post has
derived its information from very partial rec-
ord" by through search Of the proceedings Of
Congress, commencing with the entrance into the
House, and closing with the resignation of his
seat in the Senate, BY Gen. Pierce. x
In February, 1885, the first petition for the
abolition of slavery in the District was presented
and the vote of Gen. Pierce is recorded in the
affirmative with the Southern members to lay.
the petition on the table. The Era traces his
course step by step, and in every stage O the
voting on petitions of that character he IS found
side by side with the Southern members. On
seven occasions in 1885, the yeas and nays we're
taken in the House, and on every one Of these
Gen Pierce voted with the South. On eight oc-,.
casions in 1886 he did the same, and twice ia
the year 1887. In that year be was transferred
to the Senate, and what, does the record show
there2 In the words of the Era, q Q took his
stand by the side Of Mr. Calhoun, and stood by
him in his efforts to suppress aut:.sa cry sgita-
ton and discussion" ..st...-g.
On Mr.. Calhon's celebrated resolutions in
troduced into the Senate in Decembe-, 1887,
Gen. Pierce will be found to have voted in favor
of four of them and when the modification was
proposed Of the fifth and substitute adopted,
which, in deprecating' the interference Of citizens
of one State with the institutions of another, or
the States themselves" being stricken out, where
was. Gen. Pierce found, in opposition to some Of
his Northern Democratic friends who supported
the other resolutions? lie was found by the
side of Mr.. Calhoun On. three other occasions
in the Senate he voted on anti slavery petitions
with the South So we are thankful to the Era
for this amp ple record of Gen. Pierce's votes on
that question which is SO eminently Southern.
We are obliged to the Evening Post for attempt
ing to show a sympathy between Gen. P. and
Mr.. Adams on the right Of petition, for it has in
duced the former of these papers, in attempting
to show that there is no such sympathy, to make
SO important correction of false iuferences from
the record Charleston Euening News 4