The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-10-13
General Pierce.
The Record the best Refutation
Of Whig Slander.


With RFeral honorable exceptions, the
histSry otpelitical contests in tls. country
has furnished but one parallel to the rrck-
less pehdAcity of the whig Iless, since the
nominufiUa of the Democratic candidates at
BALTIMORE. We shall Of course be under
stood in 81 ahng Of a TaIallyl TO reitr 10
the canvass whieh rFrc, ded the el, cii,n 90
Gen. jackson. Yfe Nomination of Gen
Pierce is hardly announced when an apTPal
is made 10 tie passOps and prjudices oi The
Catholic pOpulaIiOH through the charge thai
he sustaiOs lhe Religious lest in ihe tonsti-
tuition Of New Hampshire. 1t IS prNed in
eoniestably, that he has EeveT ceasvd his
earnest oticTts in favor OF eEpanging it from
the eonstitp plQn--Ihat he has uaiformly de-
nOunced il as stigma upon upr fund.-.
mental law, No word he has ever uttered,
NO act be has ever done can be shown to the
contrary. And yet the charge is persisted
II, with fDll knoYlcdge that the facts are as
Vt state them. His moral character is want
only assailed throyh the press, to be aught
up BY rumoF and borne as it were upon the
wings of the wind to all the ramifcatious of
society. His military career is the subject
,d malicious attack, not only without 'thc
slightest authority, but in the' face Of all Of
iieIal reports and against the united tcs-
Inouy OF Gen. Scott and every other mcri-
tori"us officer and soldier WHO served in the
campaign with him. The conductors ofthe
wing press in this region know full well that
their vile personalities ain cd at Gen. Fierce
can shake The confidence of no man where
lac is personally known. But even this OBJ
ieet attained, will CRAFTY tie dcmoniac spir-
1t of some men who set up a claim TO sancti-
ty. IL is vain TO speak Of shame in such a
case. There is no shame where there is 10
manhood. Falshood is published and forth.
with truth tramplcs it in the dust. What
then do the caumniators say? Why, we
are coolly asked, ':poes your candidate S
character need Ia be bolstered up in this
vay?" ..
Just men Qf ho;h political parties feel cal
led upon to come forward and leave no inch
Of grQppd on which these maligners of char
geter can stand, and with unparalleled i'm
pudence We are told that worthy man
would require no such viudication Again
i is asserted that Gen. Pierce may well *
claim. "Save me from my friends" There
would seem to be no form of misrcpresenta-
ti"p with which these men arc not familiar.
We ask honest men everywhere whether
there ever was n case where the sentiment
jus. quoted was more barren OF application.
Ii high merit ever commanded richer re-
,turn in warm uncalculatins personal friend-
ship, the instance is not kBowp To us, 1t
has undenisblY been the turtune of no man
In New Hampshire, may we not add in this
fouptry, to secure and retain better, truer
or more devoted friends than Franklin Pierce,
and their name is legion. Not the friends
Vt day, but these whose confidence and
alfecti IN he has won and kept through life
Not friends attracted to him at the present
moment, but trIe, sincere men, who have
watched with pride his laborlQHs and sue
cessfnl carecr-a career at the Barn she
Feld-in the councils Of the State and Ma
Ipn -- honest, fearless, triumphant, and
wha; IS more, unsuied by a single grovell-
ing or unmanly act, Fiends who have
watched and marked the progressive dcyel-
qpments of those mmandlng traits OF ofheart,
which in spite Of lis location in this little
state OF limited political power in spite of
his known di ,taste for political position, have
Al lht early aye Of forty seven called him
out to be the Standard bearer OF Democracy
it tie Republic OF th, VOL now MI n).r-
hng 25,uOO, 900 Of people.
a he balot-box in the mountain regions
where he was born an! lived ill l83J---in
the town where he hasaince resded--;hfogh-
out the State, will prove all and more har
We claim as to the aldor and number of his
personal friends at home. But we need no.
speak Of what will be done. Let us rather
apeak Of what has been done--and to this
record we ask attention of fair minded men
Of all parties, in all sections of the Union, in
ilstice- 70 the people of New Hampshire and
lneir favortc son, The groundIcSs assaults
upon the Democratic nominee are most dl-
Ia CT and gross assaults upon the virtue and
Intelligence and discernment of our people,
not OF one party, but Of bo h. Are not our
people nioral? Is there II territory on
earth where the population are more igid
IN the requirements as to ga constant adhtr-
snce to Justice, moderation, temperance, in
austIy, frugaity, and all the social virtues"
declared ip our Bill of Rights to be in ''inlis-
pensably necessary to preserve thq blessings
Sf liberty and good government" than with
in the limits OF New Hampshire? Are they
deficient in intelligence? Have they not
accorded to Franklin Pierce, from early
youth to this hour, their confidence and nj
fsctione Has noi his entire lille been passed
among them aad in their and the country's
service, where his line Of conduct has been
perfec " understood? Hasa man eyer !iyel
in the State personally known to so many
offs ciiizenS? These are questions to which
no person who has a reputation to lose, will
give negntlye aliswer--and If answered IN !
Tue affirm tive, what scvererer rebuke can
Le administered to the slanlerous tongues
and presses nov busy'in in the work of dctrac
ton? BIT 10 Tie record, his highest honor
gnd best shield.
HE came to the Legislature from his ma
tive town at the ayr Of twenty -four, and was
s,,ntinued there, with hardly a show Of oR-
position, for four successive years. In 1881
b. WAS elected speaker Of the House of Rp-
Sesentises, consisting Of about ESQ members.
aad he it is bsljeyed The youngest member,
by majority Of l09 woes, Gen. Wilson OF
lseene, being his competitor. In 1882 he
WAS reeleclrd, receiving 2J5 out of 203
votes, which WAS the whole number cast
During the year last named, he was nom-
p..ted for Congress, and elected in the March
following by more than 5000 majority. La
1884 be wis re-ncminatel and reelected by
more than 5000 majority, running consil-
erably higher than any other cHndiI on