The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-09-09

extorted from wing elector BY the name Of
Mapp, seems now to be placed on an intel
ligible basis. Mr. Mapp himself has writ
ten letter, referred to on our outside page.
In addition to that we publish the following
from Mr. Wise himself:
ACCoMACK COUNTY, VA,
August %, 1852.
To THE EDrroR OF THE UNION:
SIR: A gentleman from Maryland, who
was present at a meeting at the courthouse
of this county in July last, published re-
port of dialogue which took place between
Mr.. Mapp, the wing sub-elector, and my
self, as the nominated democratic elector Tor
this district. From several quarters have
been asked whether the report was correct,
and | have replied that it was substantially
correct My reply was made according to
what | understood to be the meaning of the
inquiry: Was it true that wing in public
discussion bore testimony to the fact that he
himself had heard Gen. Pierce declare in
New Hampshire, in public discussion among
non-slaveholding people, that if an army
was raised in the North to march upon the
South for the purpose of putting down slave
nv by force, it would have to march over
his dead body, for he would head another
to oppose it? I answered to that point of
inquiry alone, when / replied that Mr.. Mapp
so declared at meeting in Northampton, at
Eastville, the second Monday of this month,
in discussion which then took place be-
tween Mr.. Bolts and myself The report in
the particulars respecting Mr.. Hale was not
so correct. My question to Mr.. Mapp was !:
"Were you in New Hampshire some few
years ago." (not two years. 'and did you
not hear some abolition partisan of Hale,
perhaps, declare in public discussion that he
regarded slavery as so grievous sin that an
army ought to be marched upon the South
to suppress it by force fit could not be sup
pressed in any other way 2"
Mr.. Mapp replied that he was there, and
had heard such declaration in public dis
cussion. But I do not think he named the
person from whom he heard it. l then
asked him the question:
"Was not Gen. Pierce present at the time,
and did you not hear him reply that if an ar
my was raised to march upon the South, to
put down Slavery by force, it would have
to march over his dead body, for he would
head an army to oppose it?"
Mr.. Mapp replied, he had heard General
Pierce 50 reply adding that he General
PIERCE had no sympathy for slavery, but be
was bound to regard the constitutional COM
pact, and to maintain the execution Of the
laws.
Mr.. Mapp had been using the New Bos-
ton falsehood to prove Gen. Pierce's loathing
of slavery I was repelling the attack when
Mr. Mapp said his opportunities of knowing
Gen. Pierce's sentiments were more recent
than my own. had not heard him since !
served with him in Congress, but he had
heard him speak on the subject of slavery
within some few years back. He did not at
first say what sentiments he heard him utter
when a gentleman requested me to put tc
him the questions which 1 have mentioned
Mr.. Maps answer was unequivocally in the
affirmative, that he had heard Gen. Pierce
publicly declare what I have stated, that, an
army raised to march upon the South tC
put down slavery by force would have tc
march over his Gen. Pierce's) dead body,
for he would. head another to oppose it.
Mr.. Mapp did not say this was said in reply
to Mr.. Hale, nor to whom it was said in re-
| ply; but | exclaimed, as soon as he had
born this ample testimony
"Such is the language Gen. Pierce holds
to the John p. Halcs and other abolition
minions in New Hampshire, on the very
soil Of a free State; and yet here is a Wing
sub-elector who can bear such testimony o.
Gen. Pierce's truth to our institutions, as
sails him in Virginia, without himself frs
disclosing the facts he knows to the contrary
upon the testimony of such a witness as thi:
man Foss."
Thus suppose, the error got into the re
port that the remark of Gen. Pierce wa
made in reply to Mr.. Hale. No matter t.
whom it was made in reply, it is enough
was made, and is vouched by wing oppo
nent, who is himself vouched as worthy O
credit by the entire whig party Of this State
Mr.. Mapp is not only wing sub-elector, bu
is a wing member of the Virginia House O
Delegates from Accomack. l believe h
heard Gen. Pierce make the declaration
which he states, not only because know Nj
Mapp to be respectable and reliable for
fact like this, which he stated reluctantl
against his party, but because I know sue
f fact to be in exact consonance with tn
character of Gen. Pierce, and with his cours
in the Congress of the United States. 1t i:
therefore, non sequitur for Hale to say i
f his card of contradiction, which l have jus
| seen, that because he HALE made no sue
: remark as was enormously, perhaps, attribr
ted to him in the report of the statement {
) Mr.. Mapp, che (Gen. PIERCE never mad
any such reply /" Mr.. Mapp did not say
was made in reply to him; and if it nevC
!. was made in reply to him, that does nc
/ prove it never was made in reply to som
one else. OF that Mr.. Mapp must speal
t My purpose was to obtain his testimony {
E to what Gen. Pierce was heard by him to d.
clare publicly in New Hampshire, and thu
purpose was fully accomplished both hel
and at Eastville. | have been thus partiel
lar in order to correct the general statemer
{ which l have made, that the report of tt
$ dialogue between Mr.. Mapp and myself
Accomack courthouse was substantially a
curate. Substantially it was correct as
+ everything relating to Gen. Pierce.
G In haste, yours respectfully,
HENRY 4. WISE.
NJ CHETALIER, in the Paris Journal d
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