New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-21
The Evening Post on Pierre.
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FRIEND g.: The Erening Post. ~
your city, is, l see, doing homage to the B.la.
more candidate, FRAyK PIERCE. Such . c.,..
BELTS such changslng. With all its pret.,a.I
love of Freedom, no Press seems reader a, a.,
Liberty whenever it can get an opportunity.
The Post Of the sth inst. attempts I. eo,,A.,
an assertion Of The Tribune, that there i. a., !.
bitterer Pro-Slavery bunker than FrauLE,
Pierce" and, with the brazen effrontery which
becomes it, it goes on to declare that Mr.. P,eres
voted, when in Congress, to respect the Right Of
Petition as exercised by AbOltionists."
If the Editor of The Post will turn to I'll.
Congregational Globe for December 1896. p.rs
80, it will find a beautiful illustration Of Frank
Pierce's regard for the RICH, of Petition as OK.
ercised by Aboltionists;" as well as direct an.
swer to its assertion. In regard to the reception
Of these petitions. and the treatment he would
have them receive, he said in the House of Repne.
sentatives, wide Globe, as above y
at perfectly apparent that the question ru,, ~
met DOW, or at some future rme fsliy and szpicstr
and such an EXPRESSION OF this House sive. a. wo.i
leave possible room 10 doubt u the opinion ara
sentiments entertained by its members Hs Az, p
considered the Overwhelming Of the House The ,A.
day. laying memorial OF similar tenor upon the mia
as JfrfHS spor e TIE STAMP OF REPRoDArioNr
Beautiful regard for the Right of Petition, this
And so zealously did he play the doushface. ss
well a, the "gagger," that he declared also, in
his place in the House:
"For one he was prepared to STAMP WITH prslrpo.I.
rIoS In the most aprsss and E-egEipocsi terms The
WHOLE movement upon this subject" The abolao.
of Slavery in the District Of Columbia
But hear The Posts idol little further:
aft the motion to lie upon the table should be usr.
sisted In be could cots for a. though he would PRgrgs
10 meet the question In form which could W No
possibility, Ne deemed either EoUIvocAL or EyAsvsFs
wide Globe Dec. 1882
That is, Frank Pierce would "prefer" to have
the petitioners GAGGED, in the Athertopisn style.
There would be nothing "EQUIvocAL OR EvAava"
in that summary way of PLAYING the tyrant. And
can The Post read these osspetic sentiments aud
not blush for its Presidential candidate, as well a
for its orn false assertionl
The fact is, Frank Pierce was always dough-
face. Nay, more. He has always been petty
tyrant of the ArHERroS school-although he has
sometimes made the demagogue pretense Of being
friendly TO freedom.
In the House Of Representatives, May %, 1896,
FRANK, PIERCE voted for Pinckney's celebrated
Gag Resolution, as follows:
"Re,olred, That all petitions memorials resolutions
propositions papers, relating in any ray to aay
Aatere to the subject OF Slavery abJiea
Of Slavery shall without being either printed refer
red be laid upon the table and that further scoa
whatever shall be had thereon"
And for this South Carolina Gag, Frank Piercs
vste .. Does The Post hear p When tho mama
Of John Quincy Adams was called, the glorious
old man" rose and said " hold the resolution
to be a direct VIOLATION or THE CONSTITUTION of
the United States, the rules of this House. and
the rights Of my constituents"
This is but brief outline Of the Congressional
career of the great New. Hampshire Doughfaee.
Let The Post look this in the face and reitsrato
its falsehood, if it can. Let Henry b. STANTON.
traitsr to Freedom he is, study the above pic
ture of man whom he supports for the Prssidea-
cy--the man who few years since, trampled kis
petitions in the dust and locked gag" upon the
lips nor used in singing his praises in Tamm,ny
Hall. What craven spanels The E5sIss
Post and Henry b. Stanton. Who, hereafter,
will believe their cant about Liberty and the
Right of Petitionl
Heretofore, | have thought The Tribune too
severe upon Henry b. Stanton. But give it up,
and now thank it most heartily for its discernment
and noble fidelity. &c on, and lay the lash to the
traitors backs. Disentangle those old petitions
which Stanton and The Post once made such
flourish about and which their residential candi-
date once scraped his feet upon in the Halls Of
Congress! The great Doughface is well worthy
Of their demsgogue support. But, branded be all
traitors to freedom, whether in America or Hun
gary! FREE-SoILER.