The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1852-08-17
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conspiracy against General
Pierce.

Ihe onlg witnesses produced by the Scott
journals to support the infamous caumny
on General Pierce are abolitouiSts Of the
deepest dye, and among them the Rever-
end fanatic who first forged falsehold. and
now swears to it,
To rebut these witnesses, we produce
the following testimony, signed by the
President OF the New Boston Meeting, by
the Town Clerk, by the Representative Of
the town; by several ex-members of the
Legislature living in New Boston, by the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, by
the High Sheriff of the county, aud by the
Senator of the district, all of whom Were
present when Gen, Pierce delivered the
New Boston speech,
THE undersigned having had their at
tention called to communication publish
ed in the Manchester Democrat OF the 9Th
of January last, aud repubshed in the
Washington Republic of the 18th instant,
purporting to give an account of General
PIerce's speech al New Boston last winter;
deem it due to truth to make the following
statement
ave were all of us present on the oc-
casion referred to. and are therefore able to
speak positively in regard TO the truthful
ness OF that report. We do rot hesitate
TO pronounce it. without any qualification,
tissue of falsehoods from beginning TO
end. In whole aud in part, in substance
aud detail it is entirely false and grossly
false, and was so denounced by those of IT'S
who saw it at the time of its original pub
licaton. No one expression there imputed
to Gen. Pierce is correct, and most of them
are entire iabrcations, without the slight.
est shadow of truth.
Gen. Pierce's speech upon this occasion
was an able, bold, and eloquent vindcation
OF the course pursued by the democratic
party of the State in recinding the nomina-
lion of John Atwood, their former eandi-
date tor Governor, on account of hi Joining
with the abolitlonists in their opposition to
the compromise measures. He spoke Of
the fugitive law as an act in perfect con-
formlty to the requirements of the consti-
tuition, and one that we were bound by the
| highest considerations to observe and ex-
ecute in good faith. He alluded to the ar
guments made use OF by the higher law
politicians, and denounced their doctrines
as lanatical and dangerous. lie showed
that there objections to the present fugitive
slave law applied with equal force to the
act OF 1898, and even the constitution it.
sell. The law of 1898, he said, had re.
ceived the approval oil Washington and OF
many of the wisest and purest patriots
among the founders of our republic, and he
considered these men as moral as virtuous,
and as conscientious as those noisy aboi.
tionists who were now trying to overthrow
the institutions they have established.
To US who are acquainted with the char
acter of the warfare he abolition organs
of this State have been accustomed to wage
against the dem cratic party, commanica-
tons in their columns like the one above
referred TO occasion no surprise. Here
they can deceive no one. But as a desper-
ate attempt has been made abroad to preju-
dice General Pierce, by reviving some of
their miserable falsehoods, we have deemed
it no more than a simple act OF justice to
publish over our own signatures the fore.
going declaration: