Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-10-02
COLUMBUS L0WNDEs COUNTY MISssSIPPI OCTOBER . 1852

OIUMBUS, LOWNDES COUNTY.
held up to public odium as an A6olitiohist I
have seen in the newspapers, accounts of the man
ner IN which the friends of General Scott in Ken
lucky, and other slave States, are using the Abo-
htion misrepresentation of that speech to preiu-
dice the public mind against the Democratic nomi-
nee. But this is not ALL This same Executive
Wing Committee, of which the Hon. Truman
Smith, of Connecticut, is at the head, have pub
lished for circulation in the slave States docu-
ment entitled General Pierce and his Abolition
allies, the most remarkable document to which
the present canvass has given existence, and the
purpose of which.is, to prove that General Pierce
has been aqaJo1ns A6olitionist This document
is not designed for circulation in the Nerth-it is
not suited to that latitude Its manufactured for
Southern. consumption and does General Pierce,
as every enlightened man knows,.the grossestinius-
tee and wrong. Up to this time it has not been
semitic the folding rooms of the House of Repre-
sentatives, to be .enveloped and delivered to the
members of the House who choose to engage in
the work of circulating them, as all others from
the Wing Conlmitte have been, but are folded,
understand, at rooms engaged down.in the city,
and sent of without reaching the. Capitol I will
not ask why this. precaution has been taken The
fact speaks trumpet tongued for ITSELF have
examined this document, and well for the Wing
committee they have not allowed it to come to the
Capitol. It begins with a vote given by General
Pierce while a member of the, House OF Repre-
sentatives, against allowing Edmund Brooke of
Georgetown, in this District, to import two negro
slaYesinto the District against the then existing
laws, and winds upsWith a rebash of the Abolition
representation of his New Boston speech. 1t
is interspersed throughout with comments and as
sertons,s conveying the idea. that he is an Abo-
litiepist as deeply dyed in the fanatical tenets of
that party as Giddipgs, Philips, or Garrison. l
will now gye few of these extracts that. the
.characterof the document, and the purpose, is
designed to. ubserve, may be seem; :
1--WE do not hesitate to affirm I'm the broadest
terms, General franklin Pierce ds.at New, Boss
ton, on the Cd Of January, assert in a. public as
sembly that he considered slavery contrary to
moral right that. he .loathed the fugitive slave
law. and that he had "a most revolving feeling
at. the giving up of a slave and we consider the
attempts of himself and friends sat evasion, and
his and tAershalf denials, fatal to his character
as a frank; sincere man. s.sss.
~ But there are collateral facts and .consdera-
lions which tend powerfully to sustain the aecura
scy of Mr.. Foss and to- shew.the truth Of his all
legations. From the matter hereinbefore inserted
it appears that General Pierce, Norris, Hubbard,
Peaslee, Aver, and Campbell are full of the idea
that Mr.. Fpss cansbe. discredled at the. South BY
amere allegation.o of aboHtionsm or free soilisn,
and they seem:to rullsup their eyes in holy horror
at the presumption Of the parson in charging on
the Generaltlle expression Of anti-slaEefy feelings
.andspiews. One would suppose, from the tenor
and drift ofstheif eommunica tons for the public,
that the New Hampshire democracy had been,
dnrin9sthe. Whole Of the fearful struggle through
which. tber country has recently passed. the pat
tern Of all that is nloderate Just. reasonable and
truly national on the topics in issue, and tlat in
taking position On the constitution, and inmain1
tanning that position, they IN fact had leaned over
considerably towards the. South But. unhappily
foISheIs and particularly for General Pierce, the
records of their proceedings, both in conventions
and legislative assemblies, disclosed yerydifferent
state Of things. We, undertake to- prove that the
democracy of the Granite State, with General
Pierce at THEN. head, have pursued an extreme
course onthese subjects, and hare IN fact been he
Ping lguders otaH tie JanaticisAe and- agitation
sc1tich haze been aoiag o1aln A9a1 England for scr
erat gears past.
In.order to show General Pierce to be an Abo=
tionist, sitis necessary to attack the whole body
tof the New Hampshire Democracy, and hence,
they are denounced as 1he qaQgzeaderS an all TIE
faaaheisa0 end agitdtion qrkick has been going on
an Neao hagEsad 1ox. several syears past.ps But
here is 'an'extract equally as unjust and ridicu
lous:
eve iasistthat Frqn1sta PiercsSs MoroughL
tQobued aeiR anttSlagery sentiment and l'reizlice
and that Aesctt betray theSoattls, and all its cas-
I Interests, as4raditasas Martin Fan Bnren did. .
1.-THE democratic party of New Hampshire
having been involyed at the election Of 1851, il
very serious seTnba rrassmen mt, by reason of con
ftroYersy with Isey: Mr.. Atwood, he General P.
went on the Cd Of January to New Boston, int
the midst of an Atwood community, to win bacl
some Of the lost.sbeep to-the democratic fold
7 On.appearing before hiskaudience, with his hear
full ofthe sentiment that slavery is great social
moral, and politicalseyiI,, he draws on his solemn
: northern face and takes7into his hands his north
ern system. and displays it to the gaping multi
tude. After appropriate preliminarIes, the orato
wakes warm, and being confident that the Sout
would not hear, he bursts cut with fervid accent
I'll loathe the fugitivesslaye law hayea mos
; revolving feeling at the givingu of slave; til
law IS opposedto hutnanity-yes, It is opposed /
moral right
s.WAat SORT Of an executor wouzd frankie
Pierce make of this fugitive stape laag9 Wh.
sort Of guardian Of the rights and institution
g of tie South Who would surround him intl
I event of his elevation to the Presidency WI
!, Would shape his policy and direct his counsels
81 / can answer this last interrogatory and say th
!: itwould not.be William H. Seward, nor any ma
{ of similar sentiments. But, the closing paragraI
0 from. this remarkable document, caps the china
a of impudence and fraud:
Must it not be modifying to the last degree
ell every true hearted american to have such u ns
it as Fran In Pierce seriously pressed on the. cou
oil try as candidate for the presidency? Is it n