The daily union., 1852-08-10
One Falsehood Requires Others.

The New Boston libel, which was exhumed and put
in circulation in the South, is but little than the
unscupuous devices which the Republic has resorted
in order TO give currency TO the falsehood which was
circulated In notorious abolition journal that said OF
General Taylor in December, ls46 he raises babies for
the Market and makes merchandise of his teoWmen He
has hundred mothers Nth tcuhout their babies. for
sale in the shsnbe He furnishes Creole rirgins for the
heHs of Nsp Orleans, and riots the ruins Of souls for
,ohom the Man Of Sorrows died"
The republic knew that the abolition slander con-
tradcied most emphacally by General Pierce's whole
fe and was especially and particularly contradicled by
his course of conduct with regard to the compromise
measures 10 which the SANDER referred But at the COM
mand of party il sgnaized its aposlacy which was
marked by throwing out OF lis own columns Mr.. Web
sters and Mr.. Fillmores endorsement OF the Compro
mise by framing foundation of reckless assertions to
sustain statement er anating from despcable source,
which bore the features OF fasehood distinctly marked
on its face
l. 1t asserted that the Independent Democrat publish
ed at Concord, New Hampshire, which contained the
Ibellous charge, democratic journal, in the face Of
the fac, tha, has been for years violent advocate OF abo
ion doctrines and belongs to organization which is
bitterly hostile 10 the democratic party
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at Manchester, New Hampshire, was democratic paper
when j, is well known that hatJ6urna had abandoned
the democratic party, and at the time when it
aided in giving currency 10 the New Boston libel violent
y opposed to General Pierce and in The constant
habit OF assailing his conduct and mIsrepeseopg his
motives.
g. 1t asserted tina, the expressions attributed TO General
Pierce by the New Boston libellers not denied al
the time, when reference the files OF The Union Dem
ocrai, whose editor present at the New Boston
meeting, shows that they promptly denied in the
rst number OF that paper which issued after they
were made.
A. Il has asserted that there was no motive for
false report OF General Perces speech, arbuting to
him hostility to the ugtve-saye law, when il is noto-
nous that throughout The gubernatoral canvass 10 New
Hampshire Tie aboitiooists attempted to create the be-
lief tat General Pierce's opposition to Mr Atwood grew
out OF personal hostility, and was not due to political diff
ferences.
asserted, and cited The Nashua Gazette authority
for the assertion that General Pierce had made remarks
at another place which tended to confirm the abolition
port of the New Boston seecb reference the files
OF the Nashua Gazette not only failed to sustain the allie
gaion but directly dsproved IT, by showing that General
Pierce conended at the time and place. specified that the
Law OF 1850 contained principles obnoxious 10
northern views than the law Of 1893 approved by Wash
ngon. under which had lived for more than half
century.
O. 1t has asserted in order 10 sustain MIR Amos Tuck,
who certified to the characters OF the two abolition libel
ers, that he (Mr Tuck) a democratic member Of
Congress, when has been notorious for years that he
bitter aboIiionist, and has three times been sup.
ported for Congress by the active whg party OF his dis
rct in opposition TO the democratic candidates This
sertion il was afterwards compelled to retract.
Here we have illustration of the crooked policy
which pursue when they depart from the truth
six distinct perversions to prop up one mendacious
averment, which bore fslsehood its face and had
nothing give currency but The credbliy Of knot Of
sprsors who deem nothing too sacred for assault,
nothing too vile for use and who have never besitaed
to trample the truth, to outrage common decency
in carrying out their infamous purposes The character
OF the men among whom the Republic has gone for
weapons TO assa the democratic candidate, whose repu
iatons it has endeavored TO sustain, and whose aver
menls it has attempted topop up by rapid and dexter
ous appliance Of perverted statements and uosound
cusons. may be fully understood by the brutal Ian
guage which the Independent Democrat applied 10 Gen.
TAYLOR bsfore bis political opinions known The
Republic has gone over the support OF Mr. Stewards
nominee and we point TO the authors Of the New Bos.
ton libel the associates which that step has carried il
among and we call attention TO the in which 1t
has attempted to sustain them the work Of defamation
being it's first essay to initiate the tactics Of it's new com
panions,