Southern reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1851-185?, 1852-09-29
Hon. A. II. Stevens and Franklin
Pierce.

Hon. A. III. Stevens and Franklin
Pierce.
It's impossible 70 read many Of The Wing
presses teeming, some with iAsinuations, 9th
ers with explicit charges Of abolition against
FEANKLN PIERCE. without astonishmont and
modification. We can excuse many things
uttered in the midst Of high political excite
ment, when feeling is apt to assert supremacy
over conscience and judgment. Consequent
y We we're not greatly astonishod at the gross
injustice done Gen. CAss By bis opponents in
the campaign Of 1s48-Gnjustico which the
more honorable among them have since re-
GREETED for that was period Of intense po-
litical excitement, in which men were blinded
BY partizan feeling But now, when there is
perfect calm in the public mind, which ex-
tends itself even to the politicians themselves
what excuse is there for the arguments with
which Wing leaders,. unQJke 10 c0HUince
themselves, are attempting 10 convince the
people Of the South that PIERCE is to the
South a dangerous man? Men are found
cody and deliberately saying and writing
what they do not ttink-one Of the saddest
sights ever witnessed on this earth. For
the intelligent men who now charge, or more
Frequently argue without venturing to
charge, that Gen. PERcE is an Aboiitionist,
d0 knol0 that he has for years been the un-
compromising opponent Of the Abolitionists
Of his own State; they knol0 this just rs as
suredly as they k,iOl0 that Gen. WASHINGTON
and Gen. MARION we're the opponents Of the
British during the Revolutionary War. Yet
they hesitate not to trihe with their own con-
ciencc and the confidence and crcdulity Of
the public, BY the misrepresentation to which
We have alluded
In contrast with this course on the part Of
a portion Of the Wing leaders in Georgia and
elsewhere, We give, from the I,ltelligencer,
an extrac. from a report Of a speech made in
Atlanta, BY Mr.. srErHENs :-Sar. Goorg.
"The strength Of his speech was directed
mainly against the Wing aud Democratic
nominating conventions, aud be declared bis
unceasing hostility to all national conventions
in which Northern Free Soilers are allowed to
take part. lie was in favor Of running an
Independent candidate, and organizing an in
dependent party, from which the Abolition
and Free Soil element should be excluded
"AgaiRst Gen. Franklin Pierre, 0r his
opinions, he sail he hal nottiHg 10 o5jsct
-hc hal 10 ol5cctioa % make against M.
Piercc's rotes ~ Congress on tie Sarery
question. Hc Jclicrcd him 10 Be cmiRcAtly
on Mc Southern question, amt
sail he placed ao confidence arliatcrer in
tfc Ab0lition newspaper reports Of III.
Picree's NelC Boston Speech. He declared
the Democratic nominee to be a strong friend
to the compromise measures "While ],
continued Mr.. STEPHENs. was stumping the
State Of Georgia, in 1850, IN favor Of the
Union and the Compromise, Mr. PIgEcE was
stumping the State Of New Hampshire in "a
vor Of the same principles"
"The speaker declared that ho could not
support the Democratic candidate, because,
he said, the nomination was made BY an ir-
convention, without unity Of prin-
such men as JoHV VAN
BuEEN were now advocating his election
because, though the Democratic platform did
not countenance the doctrine, some men,
whom he styled strong interYentionists, were
fayoring his election"
r. Charles J. jenkins, leading wing Of