Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-10-22

or their citizens to abolish slavery this District any
It is immoral or sinful the passage Of any act meas
ure of Congress- that view would De direct ana dan
gerous attack the institutions OF all the saYenofding
States.
Mr. Pierce voted for oil these resolutions esolu
lions which covered the whole Southern ground in
the fullest sense of the wordeven as understood by
an ultra Southern man-Mr. Calhoun himself
and he made speech in favor of their passage, in
which the following occurs:
have no hesitation saying that consider slavery
cia and political evil and most sincerely WISH that 1t mad
immateria bow it may be REGARDED or myself
TO THE DIFFERENT STATES BY THE EI &c CONsTITu,
TON ARE E6R 4N OK THA - Is
ARE RIGHTS, WHICH THE INHABITANTS DO NOT
CHOOSE TO RELINQU1SH.
Mr. Miller read The first part, without the second.
He stopped short in the middle of sentence-he
dared not finish the paragraph, knowing full well
that it would give the lie to all the charges against
Gen Pierce We have marked with a Ia the
portion which Mr. Miller had not the fairness to
read.
After having garbled Gen. Perces speech upon
Mr.. Calhoun's resolutions for which he was forced
to acknowledge that Gen. Pierce did vote, MIR. Mil
er passing over the fact that. in $40 when the
annexation Of Texas pending and when the
question agitated the country, and those at the
North who opposed it grounded their opposition to
it on the additional strength this acquisition of
Southern Territory would give to the slave power,
then was Gen Pierce found on the side of the South
-stumping his own State in advocacy of annexation
Passing over this. MIR. Miller read certain resou-
tons of Legislatures and Conventions in New Hamp-
shire,-part passed while Gen. Pierce was in Mexi-
co-all without his having any hand in them-in
more than one by the coalition Of the Hale men
and Wings: and in direct opposition to the National
Democrats-of which, Gen. Pierce in his own State.
and now in the Union at large has been and is the
great embodiment. 1t certainly shows we'll for a
man. when even his abIest and btterest opponents
forced in the dearth of real grounds for accusa
tion against bimscf, to charge him with something
that somebody else had done-in some instances in
his absence in others in direct opposition TO him
and in all without bis concurrence, but in contra
dicton to his whole course and history.
General Pierce made speech at Manchester,
New Hampshire, in 1850, in which he urged upon
the people of the North to carry out the Fugitive
Slave Law In that speech Cen Pierce made use of
the expressions which we annex. As another Illus
traon of the course adopted by Mr.. Miller and 9TH
er whg orators, we have again marked with hand
the place where Mr. Miller stopped reading on Sat
urday night. The portion in capitals is that portion
which he did not-dared not read:
1.-The men that would dissolve the Urion, did not
hate or deplore slavery more than he did but even
with ii we have lived in peace, prosperity and secu-
rty from the foundation of our institutions to the
| present time. gy-IF THE CONSTITUTION PROVI-
DED FOR THE RETURN OF FUGITIVE SLAVES.
IT SHOULD BE DONE. THAT WAS WHAT HE
WANTED TO DO; THAT WAS WHAT OUR
FATHERS AGREED WE SHOULD DO: AND
THAT WAS WHAT THE FRIENDS OF THE
UNION ESTABLISHED BY THEM WANTED TO
DO Kisses. THESE, SAID GEN. p, ARE
THE ARGUMENTS OF THE HIGHER LAW
SUPPOSE
The arguments of the d" higher law ~ with which
General Pierce greeted by the abolitionists of
the North, scarcely dishonorable and
certainly not ungratefu the misrepresentation
and caumnies which are heaped upon him by the
Scott orators of that section, in defence Of whose
rights he incurred the Interruptions of Parson Foss
and the Kisses of his co-adjutors. How could MIR
Miller reconcile it to his own ideas Of proprietv to
stop where he did, and look his audience in the face
rs boldly rs if he had told the uhole truth
The Foss. Fogg & Co. SANDER at New Boston, wa.
the next staple of his DISCOURSE The public is toe
familiar with this to sixpence for having the
stale, hackneyed, dry dust-ten times exploded
humbug again. AS Mr.. Banks in his care
says, he did believe that Gen Pierces object was tt
get the New Boston people to submit to the execu
} ton of the Fugitive Slave Law; and he could no
con GIVE how he could consistently ask them to sub
nit 10 law, and in the same breath tell them h,
loathed it, The whole accusation and twisting ant
turning Of the Scott orators upon this subject, i
rather foolish, to no harsher word, since it i
cradle credit to Foss because it turns out that he
not horse thief, but simply negro-stealer bens
an agent of the underground railroad establishment
for the purpose Of facilitating the escape of fugtiv
slaves passing through the Northern States to Can
ada.
BY way of excuse for General Scotts studied 81
lence during the long lapse of time between the pas
sage of the Fugitive Slave Law and his nomination
by the Wing Baltimore Convention. Mr. Miller sta
ted, we think he said of his own knowledge, tina
Gen. Scott said the reason he did not write or spea
was that he did not like to appear though he wer
electoneering against MIR. Fillmore. Now this aco
an excuse certainly. If Gen Scott had really wish
cd to support MIR. Fillmore he would hardly hav
been silent when called upon to defend a measur
which MIR. Fillmore had signed-he would hardl
have allowed his name to be used as the watchwor
of opposition. open and covert by violence or b
fraud. to the laws which the other had signed an
= convention would hardly have been the determine
enemies of Mr., Fillmore rs they were. That dodg
!: wont do. 1t is but dimsy affair at the best, as