The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-09-15
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
EDWIN De LEON.
Gen. F. Pierce, Concord, N. H.
CoNcoRp, N. IN, july %, 1s5a

My DEAR SlR:-Suuoundedb by pressing
engagements, seize the earliest opportuni-
ty to reply to your letter of the 17lh inst.
1 much regret that any thing connected
with myself should have been the cause Of
disagreement between you and gentlemen
with whom you have been associated 10 tie
editorial department of the Southern Press.
do not remember ever 10 have seen what.
purports to be report of a speech delivered
by me, at New Boston, in this State, in jan
uary last. nn,il my attention was called to it,
as republished in the Republic. The preten-
ded report is, and, presume was intended
to be, an entire misrepresentation. 1t is not
merely untruthful, but is SO grossly and abb
surdIy false, as to render, in this vicinity, any
denial of its authenticity entirely unneeessa-
ry. The two papers quoted-the Independent
Democrat, published in this place, and the
Democrat. published in Manchester, are
thoroughly Abolition 'urnals, and have been,
and are, zealously opposed to the Democrat
c party. For long time prior to the meet
ing at New Boston, and ever See, they have
been unsparng in their attacks upon meper-
soualIy, and in their bitter denunciations of
what they have been pleased to term my pro-
slavery sentiments. But it would be some
thing new for either of these papers to deny
the consistency of my opinions upon the sub
iect of the constitutional rights of the South
in relation to slavery. My opinions, and the
avowal of them, have been every where the
same. Ever mindful of the difficulties and
dangers which SO long brooded over the as
semblage of wise mon and pare patriess- tn
whose spirit of concession and earnest efforts
we are indebted for the Constitution under
which we have enjoyed such signal prosperi-
ty advancement and happiness, Ihave regard
ed the subject as too vital and delicate to be
used as an eIementof sectonalappeaiin par
ty conflicts. My action and my language in
New Hampshire, touching this matter, have
been at all times and under all circumstances,
in entire accordance with my action and Ian
guage at Washington. My votes in the SEN
ate and House of Representatives We're mol
republshed in the Era for the first time
They have been again aud again paraded tc
arouse the PASSIONS and prejudices Of our pdo-
plc against me individually ,andagainst the par
ty with which it has been my pride and pleas
ure toact. There has been noattempt to eyads
he force of the record. 1t has been at al
times freely admitted, and my position sus
tained upon grounds satisfactory to my owl
mind. Lam not surprised that the attemp
to prove me an abolitiopist proyokes niuel
merriment among men of all parties hero
and this weak and untruthful sketch Of .wha
purports to be my speech, is really too ride
ulous to be considered in any serious light.
am in the daily receipt of letters, pro
pounding the greatest variety of curious ques
tions, upon all ll.eanceiyabie subjects. Letter
Of this character can not be answered, {
course. Noindiyidual could command ehhe
ssiae time or tho strength the herculsan tas
would require. llnay add Int such q col
respondence would " r. n,eana rorsnart Wi