The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-29

There is nothing to be gained in controversy
by recourse to vltuperative language. The
Union may exhaust the vocabulary Of abuse,
without persuading any one that the Republic
circulates statements which it disbelieves, or
that it has any sympathies with Abolitionism.
We have published two reports of General
PILRcE's speech at New Boston. The Union
attempts to dscredlt these reports on the
ground that they come from the Freesoil
fore unworthy of belief. The New York Post,
on the other hand, a DEMOCRATIC journal
of the highest ability and pretensions, the organ
of the most influential and celebrated Northern
Democrats-of the VAN BURENs. BUTLER,
DIX, CLEVELAND, RANroUL, and a host of
others, without whom the Northern Democra-
cy is nothing and nowhere-the Euening Post
gives full credence to the reports, commends
the sentiments attributed by them to General
| PIERCE, and calls upon us to produce further
testimony of the same sort. The legislative
records of New Hampshire, the resolutions of
her State and County Conventions, show that
the DEMOCRATS proper of that State have for
years held the same language that is ascribed
to General PIERCE and the witnesses pro-
duced by the Union to rebuff the evidence
of the Manchester and Concord Democrats, are
distinctly proved to have given their personal
endorsement to the same sentiments, and to
stand in consimii casu with the witnesses who
are denounced by the Union as vile and infa-
nous Aboltionists. The, difference that we can
find between Mr.. NoRRIs and Mr.. HALE is
extremely thin. Mr.. NoRRIs disavows his
local sentiments on the subject of slavery when
he reaches Washington; Mr.. HALE has the
maniness and courage to adhere to them. Mr..
PEAsLEE and Mr.. HTBBARD do not carry out
their convictions to the same conclusions pre-
cisely with the editors of the Manchester and
Concord Democrats; but they stand committed
on the records to sentiments as justly offensive
to the South as any which those journals have
avowed.
We have two or three documents of interest
to submit to our contemporary this morning
| We desire his attention to them. One is an
affidavit from Mr.. Foss, the reporter of Gene
raj PIERoE's speech. This gentleman, we
|
sion, man of good character and unimpeached
veracity; but as fanatical, we dare say, on the
subject of abolition as the editors of the Epening
Post, as RANrouL, FLOYD, PREsToN KING,
MoLosY, CAMPBELL, CLEVELAND, the VAN
BURENs, BUTLER, DIX, and the numerous
anti Compromise men who are now CO ope-
rating with FORSYTH, SouLE. VEEABLE
and Governor BRowK, TO make Presi-
dent of the " CHOICE AND CREATION
of the Secessionists and Fire-eaters, on the
basis Of the resolutions Of $3.50, which are
the bible of Secession and Modification. We
dare say that Mr.. Foss is quite as ultra in his
notions on slavery as any one of the gentle
men that we have named. The Union may
think this Sufficient cause for not believing
him on his oath. We do not:
AFFIDAVIT.
!, Andrew II. Foss, of Manchester, in the county
of Hlsborough, and State Of New Hampshire
depose and say, that the I'd day Of January
1852, I attended political meeting Mt New Bos
ton, in said county, which was addressed by Gen
eral franklin Pierce; that went there for th
! purpose Of reporting the speakers, and that tn