Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-08-14
COLUMBUS: U
Wednesday Mornins. August 10, 1852
The New Boston Sneech.

The New Boston Speech.
The hig presses of the South have had great deal
say about the abolition report of speech delivered
n New Boston, n. H., by Gen. Pierce We have so
contented ourselves with giving our readers the
nial othe truth of the report of that speech pub
shed by the whg papers, furnished by those who
present and heard it. It has been said that the
peech was correctly reported because the papers in
he town in which Pierce lives, did not contradict it at
he time it appeared 1t happens that was contra
cted at the tme the article containing the contra
ction we had in hand two weeks ago, and we now
another disclaimer of the truth of the speech from
he same paper. Here it is, and we append to it a
tatement which puts at rest the slander vamped up
the Washington Rspublic.
The Union Democrat says:
The plot seems to have matured suddenly
or the Washington Republic of the 18th instant
ontans, an eTtenSo, the correspondence alluded
.. The editor states that 1.-The correctness ofthe
cport (in the independently has never been ques-
oned." He is mistaken. We were present at
hat meeting We heard every word that was ut
cred and we took the earliest occasion to brand
he report as false in all It's length, breadth and
thickness. 1t was so, as hundreds are ready to
astify. The report in the other abolition organs
doubtless by the same pen) we did not notice at
myth, for 1t occurrei 20 us that every line was
3 and as it was impossible to correct ALL correct
- part only might seem to admit the rest
irosser faisehooIs We're never penned or in ba-
ser spirit. TWAS an Infamous attempt to array
Gen. Pierce AGAINST his party. to sustain the tot
erlng fabric OF abotionism by an, intimasion that
he very leader Of the democracy had assented to
heir hereses, O. 1. least had relaxed his oPpos-
ion"
By way of finishing this matter, and of putting
in the power OF all ourreaders TO Judge forthem
elves hos mons,rus outrage has been perpetra-
ted by the whig and aboEtiOnist conspirators
5ainst Gen. Pierce, now place before eur read
ers the following conclusive testimony Of the Off
GERS OF the New Boston meeting and the principal
! men who attended It. The original manuscript Of
he document containing the original signatures
has been placed in our possession, and 1t must be
regarded as tie direct testimony Of tie meeting IL
|s!f as to tie speech of Gen. Pierce. But this is
mot all nor the most. Ijs nor Stqte, as q nctter
Of or own personal kaowleage, Mot Gen. Pierce,
'er Ills osn Signoture his repeatediy denounced
se report in question, Of has speech at Aew BoS
ton, grossly tot8e-aS q tissue Of JGLseh00ds
and complete ami totai n,isrepreseataton Of acAqt
he hten said This prcciules the necessity Of any
further testimony the subject and if we al
lude to the matter again, it will be not to vindi-
cate Gen. Pierce from charge as senseless in it.
self as it is utterly exploded by the evidence, but
rather to hold up to the just indignation Of the
country the foul conspiracy which the whig leaders
aad organs have made part of their partisan war
fare, not only upon Gen. Pierce, but upon the
' r 5ht of the people to know his true position.
The document 20 which we have referred is il
the following terms
The undersigned having had their attention cal
led to a communication published in the Manches
ter Democrat of the 9th of January last, and re
published in the Washington Republic of the 12tl
inst, purporting to give an account o Pierce
speech at New Boston last winter, deem it due tc
truth to make the following statement
We were all of us present on the occasion refer
red to, and are therefore able to speak postivel,
in regard to the truthfulness of that report. w
do not hesitate to pronounce it, without any quail
iication, a tissue of falsehood from beginning t
end. In whole and in part, in substance and de
tail, it is entirely and grossly false, and was SO de
nounced by those of us who it at the time c
its original publication. No one expression ther
imputed to Gen. Pierce is correct and most c
them are entire fabricatons, without the slightes
shadow of truth
Gen. Pierce's speech upon this occasion was a
able, bold, an eloquent vindcation of the cours
pursued oy the democratic party of the State i
resembling the nomination of John Atwood, thci
former candidate for governor, On account his join
S Win WY oDolIOHlStS III tnelf OppOSltOH 10 I'll
compromise measures. He spoke of the fugitiv
slave law as an act in perfect conformity % the re
quIrements of the constitution, and one that w
were bound by the highest considerations to OF
serve and execute i'll good faith He alluded
the arguments made of by the higher-law pol
tlcians, and denounced their doctrines as fanatcs
and dangerous. He showed that their objection
to the present fugitive slave law applied with equ;
force to the act of 1898, and even the constituto
ITSELF The law of 1913, he said, had receive
the approval of Washington and many of the wi
est and purest patriots among the founders of oil
republic. and he considered these men mora
as virtuous, and as conscientious as those noisy al
oltionists who were now trying to overthrow Il
institutions they have established.
To US who are acquainted with the character
the warfare the abolition organs of this State ha
been accustomed to wage against the democrat
party; communications in their columns like Il
one above referred to occasion no surprise. He
they can deceive no one. But as a desperate a
tempt has been made abroad to prejudice Gener
Pierce, by reviving some of their miserable falls
hoods, we have deemed it no more than simI
act of justice to publish over our own signatu
the foregoing declaration.
Walter French, Charles Bennett
j G Flanders, w B Johnson,
j NJ Campbell, George w Hackett
B F Aver. A L Hutchinson of Ma
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