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General Pierce an " Extirpati onist."

| until the hour of adjournment.
General Pierce an Extirpati onist.''
We regret that our contemporary Of the
Union has permitted himself, in this warm
weather, to indulge so incontinently in a
- scathing Indignation" He should not have
fallen into his superlatives at SO early stage
of the game. He will have need in future of
more intense epthets than those he has already
employed, if he would not disappoint his
readers.
1t will not be forgotten that the Union has
exhausted the vocabulary of vituperation, in
assailing the Manchester Democrat, and the
Concord Democrat. We have one more Dem
0erat for our contemporaries consideration
the Union Democrat. 1t would seem that in
New Hampshire they must all be Democrats,
or nothing.
We admit at starting that we know nothing
of this Union Democrat. 1t may be as bad as
the Union newspaper describes all the other
Democrats, whose authority we have had occa
sion to cite. But we first heard Of it from the
Unions witness, Mr.. AVER. That gentleman
in his letter, which we published yesterday
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speech had appeared in the Union Democrat;
but the ''abstract" was not appended to
Mr.. AYERS letter. 1t occurred to US that
we might consult this 'abstract' to ad-
vantage, in arriving at the truth of this con-
troverted matter. Knowing that files of news
papers were kept at the State Department, we
applied there for the New Hampshire papers of
the month of January last, and were obliging-
ly furnished with the files of which we were
in search. Among them we found the New
Hampshire Patriot for the 7th Of January,
1851 Hunker journal, published at Con-
cord, the place Of General PIERcE's residence
In that paper we found copied from the Union
Democrat an account Of General PIERCE's
speech at New Boston. 1t will be found in
another column of this mornings impression.
We call the attention of our readers to this
abstract" 1t is very brief, as it is an abstract
Of speech of two hours and half. From this
abstract we learn that General PIERCE told his
hearers that "slavery had been introduced into
a portion of the States, in their colonial con-
dition, AGAINST THE MORAL SENSE OF THE
WHOLE WORLD. Its IMMEDIATE ExrIRpA-
TloN," he added, "wAs IMPRACTICABLE"
The first of General PIERcE's allegations is
not true. The second implies very strongly
that if the immediate "ExTIRPATIoN" of slave
ry were practicable" it would be desira
BILE. The inference is irresistible from both
that General PIERCE is in favor of the gradual
'eXtirpation' Of an institution which was in
troduced originally AGAINST THE MORAL
SENSE OF THE WHOLE WORLD" We submit
that this report Of General PIERoE's speech
is not whit more favorable to him than the
reports of the Manchester and the Concord
Democrats. 1t seems that he is not an Adolf
zionist nor an Emanci palionist, but an ExrIR-
PATIoNlsTfsnot an immediate but an ultimate
"ExrlRPArIoNIsr." He is for "extirpation"
as soon as it is "practcable."
| 1t will be remembered that we are now quot
a Democratic Democrat-not one of your DEM
ocrats who are of the VAN buren,, STANTON,
OF the true blue, unmpeached, unimpeachable
Democrats proper, of the PIERcE and Hunker
school. 1t is a Democrat, moreover, quoted by
Mr.. AVER, who is .vouched for and certified to
by Messrs. NoRRIs, HIBBARD, and PEAsLEE,
of the New Hampshire delegation in the pre-
sent Congress. Whatever doubt there may be
Of the reports of the other Democrats, this Dem
ocrat is beyond suspicion and there can be no
room for denial or doubt in regard to the ex-
pressions which are attributed by that journal
to General PIERCE.
We would like, then, to inquire of any per-
son pretending to impartiallty or fairness, if
there is any season to doubt that man who
would give utterance to the sentiments we have
above quoted, would commit himself 10 the sem
timents ascribed to General PIERCE by the
Manchcs,er and Concord Democrats. We
have been styled ''oonsbirator." ISLANDER
en-" and ''libeller," for copying from New
Hampshire papers articles which report expires
sions of General PIERCE not more offensive
than those which we cite above. What does
our contemporary of the Union say to the 70
port of the Union DEMocRAr2
One word more. We suggested yesterday
that it might be possible that the Mr.. AVER
and the Mr.. CAMPBELL who voted "yea''
upon the New Hampshire resolutions of l847
denouncing slavery as a social, moral, and po-
litical evil, might be the same Mr.. AVER and
Mr.. CAMPBELL who were the present cor
respondents of the New Hampshire delega-
tion. In this we may have been mistaken
but it has since occurred to US that the
Mr.. HIBBARD and Mr.. NoRRIs who signed
the letter to the Union defending Mr.. PIERCE
against the charges Of those Infamous and vile
Abolition Democrats, might by possibility be
the same Mr.. NORRIS and the same Mr.. HIB-
BARD whose names are signed to these very
observation-disclosures as President Of the Senate
Of New Hampshire, and the other as Speaker
, of the House! II we are mistaken in this, we
desire to be corrected. If we are not mistaken
we desire to be enlightened on point in this
aspect of very great interest. How can they de-
nounce their brother Abolition Democrats for at
tributing sentiments to General PIERCE in no re-
spect more offensive than those which were unua,
imomly voted for by all the DEMOCRATS prope'
in the Legislature Of New Hampshire, and Ger,