The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1852-06-22


appreciation. IA the most express aud aue
quiz ocal .esms, the whole movement upJr
this snbjeei.
"Mr. z said he world not resume ~:
seat. without rendering TO the eentlemau
from Virginia, Ms. Masea. just aud gcner-
Gus as he always was. his acknowledge
,aents for the admission frankly made in the
opening Of his remarks. lie had said that
drring the period that ho had occupied a
sea, in this House, [as MIR p. understood
him, he had never known six men serious
" disposed to interfere with the rights OF
the SHAREHOLDERS Mt the South. s,r, said
Dir. r.. gentlemen may 90 assured thar
there was no such disposition as a general
sentiment prevailing among the people
at least, he felt confident IN asserting that
among the people OF the State which he
had the honor in part to represent, there
was not one in hundred who did not en-.
tertsin the most sacred regard for the rights
of their Southern brcthrcn--nay, not five
hundred who would not have those rights
protected at any and every hazard. There
was no, the slightest disposition TO enter
fete with any right secured by the constitu-
ton, which binds together, aud which he
humbly hoped ever would bind together,
this great aud glorions confederacy as one
family Mr. p had only to say that, to
some sweeping charges of improper inter-
ference, the action of the people OF the
North at home during the last year. and the
vote of their representatives here the other
day. was sufficient aud conclusive answer.
THUS much he had thought due TO him.
self and to those whom he had the honor TO
represent. II the motion to lie upon the
table should be persisted in he should vote
for 1t, though he would prefer TO meet the
question in some form which could by no
possibility be considered either cquivocai or
evaslve."
This speech was delivered on the 18th Of
December La subsequent stage of the
debate Mr. Slade of Vermont. undertook to
assal Gen. Pierce's statement in regard TO
the condition Of public sentiment in New
Hampshire touching slavery. Gen. Pierce
chanced to be absent at the time; but his
attention being afterwards called to Mr.,
SHADES remarks, by a sncech Of Mr. Gal.
houn In the Senate, he took upon himself
the task of vindicating both his State and
himself against the slanderous allegations
OF his accuser. and delivered one Of the
most spirited, csustic, and effective speech
es ever heard in the House Of Representa-.
,:ves. In the course Of this las. speech oi
Gen. Pierce. he will be found to have used
the following remarkable and emphatic Ian.
guage. Referring TO the dangers with
which ihe Union itself was even then men.
aced by the anti.slavery agitation Of the
North, he said:
"Ele would express bis belief that there
was sufficient patriotism and moral firmness
sn the sunny cline, aud patriotism and NOR.
al tirmness enough among the snow.capped
hills of the North, to pnt down agitators,
If they existed, in both sections OF the
country, and to transmit an unbrokcn Union
to posterity, with all the rights and prisi.
leges secured by the Constitution, and now
happily enjoyed under it,"
How little did be then suppose that he
would be, almost twenty years thereafter,
calledupon to act the prominent part which
has been now marked out for him, in secur-
ing the veri6cation Of his own patriotic pre-.
diction, and in adding, as President Of this
groat republic, in preserving and in trans.
hitting "aa pnbroken Union 10 posteri:y.
ieith all the rights and privileges secured
BY the Constitution, and noto happily en-.
joyed un9e7u"
To me. sir, it is highly gratifying to con-
slider that our candidate for the Presidency
is native Of that noble and trnly patriotic
State which gave birth to Woodbury., a
Webster, and Cass that to this State we
are chiefly indebted, [as | am told Is certain
ly the case, for the nomination OF MIR. Polk
in 1914 and that il was in this State that
the important triumph to which | have al.
ready referred, was, few months since, SO
nobly achieved over the Arch Agitaior
Hale, and his unprinelpled confederates.
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