The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-09-22

whole country, and the permanent exi:sencs
this republic, We regard ita. pcr n'enesl az
MOST sacred duty 70 withhold from franki
Pierce and William Rufus King us support
TRUMAN SMITH, Of Connecticut.
WIN. CULLOM, of Tennessee.
ISRAEL WASHBURNjr-, OF Maine.
GEORGE BRIGGS, New York.
FrrZ HENRY WARREN. OF lows.
VT. WARD, Of KrEucky.
H. D MOORE. Of Pennsylvania.
For reasons to some extent idicated in speech
es and addresses heretofore sade BY the under-
signed, they deem ittheir dhy to withhold their
support from Gen Fierce y a candidate for the
presidency lift aould Irt m to be necessary,
we will hereafter, IA some form, exhibit to our
constituents the lcts and reasons which have
brought rs to tn determination.
w. p. MAGUM, of North Carolina.
EDWARf STANLY. OF North Carolina
| The circumancea connected with the Issue
and circula,iorf this card prove beyond doubt
persons in III country, who are MT in the habit
Of bestowiaymany III lights upon politicians
and their Sc mes, by endeavoring to make those
| to whom IN letter is sent land they take good
care 70 ser il only where they think il will not
be EXPOSED believe that the sgners Of he card,
Hon. Tru.an Smith, Hon. Mr.. Cullon, Hon
Mr.. Mauam, &C., are, and always have been,
1--WE use leir own langnage,) democrats aad
repubiilas !" but that they and their associ
ates ca iot suppor Franklin Pierce for the pre-
sidenc but intend to vote for General Scott,
ON pr,nds of special objection to Gen. Pierce.
/ nde rldent of, and in spite Of, his nomination
Il rHrv -.4 49, tk.,
signs OF the card are many s.seceding dem.
ocrS' who have repudiated General Pi-rces
no,nation upon special grounds Of objection,
evias General Scots nomination had been
Especial grounds in fact repudiated, IN genuine
| rnifesto, by several oft the most emine mt south
q wing members IF Congress!
The card under this interpretation inter-
ketation which it's terms not only sanction, but
iirectly claim--will be admitted by all to be a
ssue Of glaring untruihs, with nothing true
about it but the Official signatures appended to
i, and the further endorsing signatures which
nave ranked it for distribution a,nong the people.
The only possible excuse for the card, thus au-
henticatcd and commended to the public, is that
i is iroa;eal-in word, tina, it is written AZ
,ka!
Such an excuse is on it's face prepos'erous
How long is it since the sigma, ures Of these WING
members of Congress became jokes! How
ong is it since they have taken to the trade Of
signing gross false hoods, and sending them out
20 signed for the people to read, merely for the
un Of the thing? How long is il since the
wing managing committee, with Truman Smih
or chief and Fnz Henry Warren for lieutenant,
became such inveterate wags as tn spend their
parry money in the publication and distribution
,y wholesale Of mere jrs,s, intended to produce
no effect upon The canvass, but to be read and
laughed at and then forgotten.
We ask the people to mark the men whose
names fiyure in this transaction. We demand
10 know Of the sgners OF this card-one and all
lon what principle Of public honor or honesty
their names stand signed to public declaration
that hey are "democtats," and yet cannot vote
FOR Franklin Pierce! We demand Of them
Justification for thus Stimulating before the peo-
ple part isan character which is not theirs, in
order to niure the democratic: nominees by pro-
Tossing that, though democrats, they must re-
pudiate the democratic ticket Suppose that
any one Of these sgners had gone into part Of
the country where his name 10 not known--and
such parts Of the country there are-and used
the identical language of this card on the stump;
would any man Of them who had done dare
to hold up his head an honest man!
If not, then by wha, justification do they
permit their signatures to say tor them every
where what they would admit to be foul false
hood and shon.r if said by them in person
wherever they were not known!
And, finally, We invoke again the attention
of the country to the desperation Of fraud by
which the Scwardite ''higher-law" element Of
the wing party, Conscious that the people have
condemned II, is now lighting for power. We
warn the people against further, and il possible,
still more atrocious and une xamplrd frauds than
those which we have now exposed. We have
good rea on to believe-we may say, to know
that such frauds ore now being contemplated,
if not actually connected. One thing only is
needed to save the people from being virtually
cheated by such devices out Of their right oi
suffrage. Let them remember that the Stward
lite party ard policy CAM rule only upon de ruins
of the constitution, and over II land torn and
vexed by the demon Of sectional strife ! With
this fact in mind, the people Of the country will
know beforehand hat to such party the chlet
Of a CANVASS must, by the necessity
Of their case, BE- falsehood and fraud!